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STEELERS WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL TEAM

Registered charity 700976 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide facilities/coaching and equipment so physically disabled people can play wheelchair basketball. The ages start from 6 yrs to 50+. Levels are beginners/recreational and competition (national league and international)The club raises awareness of disability through sport in and around the local community.

Objects

FOR THE RELIEF OF THE PHYSICALLY DISABLED PERSONS RESIDENT IN AND AROUND YORKSHIRE, DERBYSHIRE, AND NOTTINGHAMSHIRE BY BRINGING SUCH PERSONS IN CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH ABLE-BODIED PEOPLE AND TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES TO ENABLE SUCH PHYSICALLY DISABLED PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SPORT OF BASKETBALL OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS.

Area of benefit: YORKSHIRE DERBYSHIRE AND NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

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

Causes: Disability · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£39k
Latest spending
£36k
Registered
1989
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an excess of expenditure over income of £11,627 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a decrease in net assets from £24,189 to £12,562. The trustees' report notes that funding is becoming difficult to secure, although the club remains operational with a positive bank balance of £16,061.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Street Collections (20% of income)
“Street Collections £8,046”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Going concern: noted by the trustees or auditor
“Funding for our club is becoming very hard to keep going, so if anyone has any ideas have a chat with any of the committee.” — page 2
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

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

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2025

  • Volunteers: 9

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2024

  • Volunteers: 5
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/10/2023

  • Volunteers: 9
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

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

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Bradford City · City Of Wakefield · Derbyshire · Doncaster · Kirklees · Leeds City · North Yorkshire · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£39k£36k
31/08/2024£34k£45k
31/10/2023£33k£25k
31/10/2022£24k£29k
31/10/2021£21k£16k

Common questions

Is STEELERS WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL TEAM financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported an excess of expenditure over income of £11,627 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a decrease in net assets from £24,189 to £12,562. The trustees' report notes that funding is becoming difficult to secure, although the club remains operational with a positive bank balance of £16,061. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund13/01/2016£10kGet Active with the Steelers!
The National Lottery Community Fund09/01/2008£6kSteelers Wheelchair Basketball Community Development Project

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
GRAHAM ROWLANDSON FOUNDATION1£105k
THE GREEN HALL FOUNDATION1£11k
THE JOHN APTHORP CHARITY1£9k
MISSES BARRIE CHARITABLE TRUST1£6k
THE MICHAEL MARSH CHARITABLE TRUST1£3k
THE EDGAR E LAWLEY FOUNDATION1£2k
The Squire Patton Boggs Charitable Trust1£500

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON TITANS WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL CLUB.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
STEELERS WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL TEAM£39k—0unclear—noted
LONDON TITANS WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL CLUB FY2025£65k—0unclear—no doubt
WARWICKSHIRE WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL ACADEMY FY2025£74k—0unclear—no doubt
MANCHESTER REVOLUTION WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL CLUB FY2025£39k—0unclear—no doubt
GREAT BRITAIN WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION FY2025£2.4m——unclear—no doubt
DERBY TRAILBLAZERS BASKETBALL CLUB FY2025£296k—0unclear—no doubt

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