Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

SARACENS SPORT FOUNDATION

THE SARARCENS SPORT FOUNDATION USES THE SARACENS BRAND, OUR PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS AND HIGH QUALITY STAFF TO INSPIRE AND CHALLENGE OVER 70,000 CHILDREN EVERY YEAR TO LIVE AN ACTIVE AND HEALTHY LIFESTYLE.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/06/23£1,370£1,343£27£165£446£2642.461100
30/06/22£1,118£1,114£4£231£418£2863.147100
30/06/21£1,009£892£117£191£414£3034.12550
30/06/20£952£979£-27£227£298£2142.62223
30/06/19*£1,081£1,024£56£207£324£25532051
30/06/18£824£819£5£139£268£2293.4200
30/06/17£791£782£9£113£263£2293.5180
30/06/16*£764£819£-55£124£254£2263.3180
30/06/15£871£849£22£130£309£2824170
30/06/14£767£674£94£126£287£2384.2160
30/06/13?£691£644£47£123£194£1572.9120
31/05/12£569£592£-23£152£147£1382.8110
31/05/11*£457£452£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/10*£363£392£-28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/09£496£500£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/08£323£311£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/07£177£180£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/06*£146£143£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/05£109£108£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/05/04£57£111£-54n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 13.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 12.3%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 20%
Liabilities/Income: 8%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 59%
Reserves/Spending: 2.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 4 months
Quick Ratio: 3.6
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 25 years

https://www.saracenssportfoundation.org/

richardsymonds@saracens.net

07460020569

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Community sports activities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barnet, Brent, Enfield, Essex, Hackney, Harrow, Hertfordshire, Luton, Newham, Tower Hamlets,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
City Bridge Trust£203,375
National Lottery Community Fund£191,080
John Lyon's Charity£143,000
Charles Hayward Foundation£50,000
DCMS£50,000
Sport England£33,273
Masonic Trust£30,000
Comic Relief£28,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sport England - Love to Balance
£5,180 02/11/2023
12
This project will expand the Love to Balance programme in to 3 new care homes delivering seated exercises for older people for a period of 48 weeks. Each session will last one hour.
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£30,000 17/05/2023
Go Forward - mentoring and sport based support to children and young people at risk of exclusion at Kingsbury High School and Future Academies.
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Saracens Foundation
£25,000 22/03/2023
Breakdown Project at the Pavilion Pupil Referral Unit in Barnet
John Lyon's Charity - Recovery grant to Saracens Sport Foundation
£19,000 16/03/2023
Sensory Room Refurbishment
National Lottery Community Fund - Project Breakdown
£172,500 16/12/2022
This funding will be used to provide mentoring support to vulnerable pupils at Chessbrook School Watford. The project will provide one to one and group support sessions to give the children and young people better chances to return to mainstream ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Saracens Sport Foundation
£192,500 17/11/2022
60
£192,500 over five years (£35,700, £36,900, £38,500, £39,900, £41,500) towards the costs of the Junior DisABILITY Sports Hub, providing sports activities for 8–13-year-olds with learning disabilities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Saracens EmployABILITY Programme
£9,770 01/07/2022
The funding will be used to deliver a disability employability programme for young adults with disabilities (16-30 years). They will educate employers to help them build confidence and create an accessible and inclusive environment for disabled ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Saracens Sport Foundation
£7,000 07/04/2022
purchase IT equipment for a charity supporting disadvantaged minority communities in Greater London
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Saracens Foundation
£25,000 28/02/2022
Breakdown Project at the Pavilion Pupil Referral Unit in Barnet
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£9,222 05/07/2021
6
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project lists its main activity as Exercise & Fitness
John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to Saracens Sport Foundation
£4,000 01/05/2021
Feeding Futures
Sport England - TGC CF Love to Dance
£9,705 09/12/2020
11
This project will roll out the Love to Dance project to 5 new locations to target new inactive women.
Hertfordshire Community Foundation - Love 2 Dance
£5,000 19/11/2020
Grant to Saracens Sport Foundation
The London Community Foundation - Grant to Saracens Sport Foundation
£25,500 14/10/2020
This funding will reopen 14 disability sport club projects. The aim is to reconnect over 250 vulnerable young people and adults with disabilities, impacted due to shielding during Covid-19 back to their communities. This project will transition ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£50,000 22/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Comic Relief - Together Active
£28,500 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Saracens Sport Foundation
£10,875 19/05/2020
A grant of £10,875 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£9,166 30/04/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Rugby Union
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Saracens Sport Foundation
£120,000 11/03/2020
36
Go Forward
National Lottery Community Fund - Strictly Sarrie
£8,810 06/03/2020
12
The group will use the funding to provide dance activities for people who are living with disabilities. This will use art as a vehicle to involve people in physical activities and help them reach their potential.
John Lyon's Charity - SHAF grant to Saracens Sport Foundation
£3,600 08/10/2019
12
Fit Fed and Fun
Greater London Authority - Get Onside
£67,000 30/09/2019
Saracens are working in HMP YOI Feltham. Young offenders represent some of the most socially exlcuded, vulnerable and disadvantaged young people in England. The project provides sport, education and life skills within Feltham YOI with the aim of ....more
Comic Relief - Get Onside
£67,770 04/09/2019
24
Young Offenders have often lived complicated & chaotic lives. They represent some of the most socially excluded, vulnerable & disadvantaged young people in England. The Get Onside project provides sport, education and life skills within ....more
Sport England - Track Club
£8,512 03/04/2019
10
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Track Club. This project is a Athletics project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Saracens Sport Foundation
£28,480 22/11/2018
36
Education, sport & employability programme for 135 disabled young people in North London. Young people will raise their aspirations, improve their social skills & reengage with learning.
National Lottery Community Fund - Love to Dance
£9,450 28/09/2018
12
The project will offer older people dance workouts, enabling them to make friends and improve their overall health and wellbeing.
Comic Relief - Get Onside
£95,070 16/03/2016
36
The national reoffending rate is currently 69% (MoJ 2015). Feltham Young Offenders Institute is statistically the most violent prison in the UK and houses around 700 prisoners. There is a need to reduce both the violence and reoffending rate, and to ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Saracens Sports Foundation
£35,000 28/03/2013
This charity engages people through sport to address a range of issues and give them new skills. This request will enable young people with autism to access community based sports and will provide parents and carers with respite and peer support.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Saracens Sport Foundation
£42,300 14/03/2013
36
towards three years' running costs of a sports coaching project for young offenders at Feltham Young Offenders Institute
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 34-66
  • CAROLINE SARAH BIDDLE Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Human Resources Director
  • DAVID CHRISTOPHER LEBOND Appointed: 2011, Occupation: Business Director
  • ELAINE RATCLIFFE Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Business Executive
  • GEORGE WILLIAM EYRES Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Head Of Sustainability
  • JANE SMALLWOOD Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Teacher
  • MARK THOMPSON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Chief Executive Officer
  • NICHOLAS JAMES BROOKING Appointed: 2007, Occupation: Director Of Sport
  • WARWICK STUART LANG Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Culture
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/02/2000, number: 1079316
  • Registered at Companies House on 19/01/2000, number: 03909677
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR19: 12 days late, AR16: 25 days late, AR11: 30 days late, AR10: 115 days late, AR06: 58 days late,
Main office

STONEX STADIUM
GREENLANDS LANE
HENDON
LONDON
NW4 1RL

Objectives

TO ADVANCE AND ASSIST IN ADVANCING EDUCATION; TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THOSE FOR WHOM THE FACILITIES ARE PROVIDED; TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND DISABILITY AND TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT HEALTH; AND TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER PURPOSE WHICH IS CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO ENGLISH LAW.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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