GUILDFORD SPORTS GROUND

Registered charity 305056 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of sports ground

Objects

THE PURPOSES OF A SPORTS GROUND

Area of benefit: BOROUGH OF GUILDFORD

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Amateur Sport · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported total funds of £232,277 for the period ending 31 March 2025, with unrestricted funds amounting to £214,918. The charity employs no staff, relying instead on administrative support from Guildford Borough Council personnel. Fixed assets are valued at £2.5 million, primarily comprising the sports ground land and pavilion.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Guildford Borough Council · trustee of 5 other charities
• Victoria Worsfold

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GOSFORTH FIELDS SPORTS ASSOCIATION LIMITED.

• GOSFORTH FIELDS SPORTS ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £475k
• GUILDFORD POYLE CHARITIES income £163k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST NICOLAS GUILDFORD income £262k
• FARNHAM PARK SPORTS FIELDS income £1.4m
• GOREFIELD PLAYING FIELD ASSOCIATION income £100k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF STOKE-NEXT-GUILDFORD income £536k

Side by side with its peers

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