ACTIVE CHESHIRE

Registered charity 701764 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACTIVE CHESHIRE LIMITED, CHESHIRE AND WARRINGTON SPORTS PARTNERSHIP TRUST LIMITED, CHESHIRE SPORTS TRUST LIMITED, SPORT CHESHIRE, SPORT CHESHIRE LIMITED

As the lead body for sport and physical activity in the Cheshire sub-region, we perform a vital role in bringing together local people and national sports bodies. We use our unique local knowledge, influence and insight to ensure that national funding and resources reach the places where they will have the most impact on participation.

Objects

5.1 To provide or assist in the provision of opportunities for the benefit of the inhabitants of Warrington, Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester for physical and athletic recreation or other leisure-time and athletic activity, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants;5.2 To relieve the need, hardship and distress of such inhabitants in conditions of need, hardship and distress by providing financial or other assistance so enabling them to participate in the opportunities provided by the Charity;5.3 To disseminate or assist in the dissemination of information encouraging such inhabitants to participate in physical recreation (including sport) so as to promote their health and well-being, and in pursuance of the two first-mentioned main objects, but not otherwise, the Charity may in the interests of social welfare:5.3.1 Provide or assist in the provision of sporting opportunities for disabled people so as to relieve or alleviate their conditions;5.3.2 Provide or assist in the provision of sporting facilities for young persons aged under 25 years of age so as to secure or advance their physical education and training and enhance their education generally;5.3.3 Develop or assist in the development of the capacity and skills of the members of socially and economically disadvantaged communities within Warrington, Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester in such ways that they are better able to identify and help meet their needs in regard to physical and athletic recreation or other leisure-time physical and athletic activity, so improving their conditions of life;5.3.4 Provide and assist in the provision of opportunities for physical and athletic recreation or other leisure-time physical activity for older people, so as to promote their health and well-being.

Area of benefit: CHESHIRE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheshire West and Chester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Active Cheshire ended the year with unrestricted reserves of £432,663, which exceeds the charity's stated policy target of £300,000. Although the charity reported an operating deficit of £33,458 for the year, the trustees confirmed there are 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 Ascendis Audit Limited. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02401068 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Active Cheshire (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SMITHIES, Elaine Ann — director, appointed 12/12/2025on trustee list
• BURCHELL, Robert Joseph — director, appointed 12/12/2025on trustee list
• WATSON, Deborah Louise — director, appointed 12/12/2025on trustee list
• BETTS, Jonathan David — director, appointed 01/10/2024on trustee list
• UNDERHILL, Eleanor Anne — director, appointed 29/09/2023on trustee list
• SULLIVAN, Adam Michael — director, appointed 30/06/2023on trustee list
• LAW-LYONS, Stephen — director, appointed 30/09/2022on trustee list
• WATERMAN, Rachel — director, appointed 22/07/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (92% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam Michael Sullivan
• Deborah Louise Watson
• ELAINE ANN SMITHIES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Eleanor Anne Underhill
• Jonathan Betts · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rachel Waterman
• Robert Burchell
• Stephen Law-Lyons

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Warrington

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACTIVE LINCOLNSHIRE.

• ACTIVE LINCOLNSHIRE income £1.0m
• ACTIVE OXFORDSHIRE income £2.1m
• ACTIVE GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £1.2m
• ACTIVE LANCASHIRE LIMITED income £2.9m
• TOGETHER ACTIVE income £540k
• ACTIVE ESSEX FOUNDATION income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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