SPECIAL OLYMPICS GREAT BRITAIN

Registered charity 800329 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOGB, SPECIAL OLYMPICS GB, SPECIAL OLYMPICS UK · also registered in Scotland as SC052090 (OSCR)

Providing year round sports training and competition opportunities to children and adults with intellectual (learning disabilities). Currently the charity serves 8000 athletes annually supported by over 2800 volunteers.

Objects

TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES (INCLUDING THE ORGANISING OF SPORTING ACTIVITIES), FOR ANYONE WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND IN PARTICULAR TO ORGANISE, SUPPORT AND PROMOTE OLYMPIC-STYLE GAMES EVENTS AND COMPETITIONS FOR SUCH PERSONS, WHO BY REASON OF THEIR DISABILITY HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING THEIR WELLBEING AND THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE COMMUNITY; ANDTO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN SOCIETY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN PROVIDING FACILITIES AS DESCRIBED IN THE PRECEDING OBJECT.

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: Disability · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £78,345 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total net assets of £1,085,769. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £847,920 significantly exceed the stated policy target of three months' operating costs (£275,296). The auditors confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bishop Fleming Audit Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2024) to £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2025).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 2 (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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Special Olympics Great Britain (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).

• Coca Cola Great Britain — “Founding Partner --> Coca Cola Great Britain” (source page)
• Coca Cola Europacific Partners — “Official Partners --> Coca Cola Europacific Partners” (source page)
• Mitsubishi Electric — “--> Mitsubishi Electric” (source page)
• Sport England — “Strategic Partners --> Sport England” (source page)
• ESPN — “Project Partners --> ESPN” (source page)
• Angilou Genuine French Furniture — “--> Angilou Genuine French Furniture” (source page)
• Manor Farm Feeds — “--> Manor Farm Feeds” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (55% 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: 10.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/04/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/03/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/03/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PAUL RICHARDSONchair
• ANDREW LEE TOPEN
• Alison Rayson
• Andy Young
• Ben Edward Powers
• Caitlin Eileen Ryan
• Charles Joachim Classen
• Dr Jason William Crabtree
• Emma Louise Rose
• Geoffrey Nicholas · trustee of 2 other charities
• KIERA BYLAND

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

Operates in: 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 THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT.

• THE ACCESS TO SPORTS PROJECT income £896k
• BRITISH BLIND SPORT income £526k
• BRITISH OLYMPIC FOUNDATION income £1.2m
• UNITED KINGDOM SPORTS ASSOCIATION FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITY income £35k
• OKEHAMPTON SKILLS AND SPORTS TRUST income £330k
• THE LONDON SPORTS TRUST income £669k

Side by side with its peers

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