THE LORD'S TAVERNERS

Registered charity 306054 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q6678864 · Wikipedia · also known as THE LADY TAVERNERS, THE LORDS TAVERNERS, THE YOUNG LORDS TAVERNERS · also registered in Scotland as SC046238 (OSCR)

We positively impact the lives of young people facing the challenges of inequality. We provide inclusive and impactful cricket programmes, empowering young people with disabilities and from disadvantaged communities to develop the knowledge, skills, capabilities and confidence required to overcome the challenges of inequality, raise their aspirations and reach their potential.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY, BEING WHOLLY CHARITABLE, ARE: 2.1 THE PROMOTION OF AMATEUR SPORT AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, CRICKET; 2.2 TO PROVIDE (IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE) OR TO ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES OF THOSE WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCE; AND 2.3 THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SOCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £531,000 for the year, driven by income underperformance and one-off restructuring costs. Unrestricted reserves stood at £1.39m, which is marginally below the Board's approved policy range of £1.4m to £2.0m. The trustees confirmed that the charity has sufficient resources to meet its liabilities as they fall due and identified no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Lady Taverners host inter-school sports fun day for special schools cardiff-times.co.uk · 19/06/2019
• The Perse School make big impression at Lady Taverners' National Schools' Indoor Cricket finals cambridgeindependent.co.uk · 05/06/2019
• The Perse School earn bronze in the Lady Taverners national indoor finals cambridgeindependent.co.uk · 23/05/2018
• Kent receive Lady Taverners Trophy from Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace kentcricket.co.uk · 21/10/2016
• Hannahs youngsters get on the road with the Lord's and Lady Taverners ivybridge-today.co.uk · 22/04/2016

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Lord's Taverners Ltd (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• People's Postcode Lottery — “Thanks to players of Postcode Lottery our cross-programme reach of young people facing disadvantage is truly national” (source page)
• Berkeley Foundation — “This is complemented through long term support from Berkeley Foundation.” (source page)
• ICE Futures Europe — “we recently launched a multi-year partnership with ICE Futures Europe to support delivery of our Wicketz programme.” (source page)
• Wavestone — “Some of our key corporate partners and funders include Wavestone” (source page)
• Statom — “The Lord’s Taverners was proud to be named as a beneficiary of the Statom Ball for the very first time last December.” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 48.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abeed Janmohamed · trustee of 1 other charity
• Francis D'Souza
• Gordon Kennedy
• Gordon Michael Hollins
• Jennifer Barnett
• Lucy Charlotte Pearson
• PAUL WALKER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rachel Kirby-Rider
• Sukhjit Grewal

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

Operates in: Guernsey · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEADERS IN COMMUNITY.

• LEADERS IN COMMUNITY income £327k
• THE LARCHES TRUST LIMITED income £35k
• LONDON THUNDER BASKETBALL CLUB income £177k
• THE LORD'S CHURCH INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES income £99k
• VENTNOR CRICKET CLUB LTD income £113k
• THE CHILDREN'S ADVENTURE FARM TRUST LTD income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.