THE LORD'S TAVERNERS

Registered charity 306054 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · 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.

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

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.

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 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 48.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (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
• Suzanne Farthing

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.

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 GLOUCESTERSHIRE CRICKET FOUNDATION.

• GLOUCESTERSHIRE CRICKET FOUNDATION income £1.2m
• EQUALITY TOGETHER income £1.2m
• LIVE AND LEARN income £984k
• RESPONSE COMMUNITY PROJECTS (EARLS COURT) LIMITED income £112k
• DISABILITY CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY income £2.5m
• PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES AND SUPPORT 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.