Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 3
  • Excess liquidity: -1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Gov Income
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 5 ?

ENGLAND AND WALES CRICKET TRUST 

To promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for playing cricket and to promote all purposes as recognised as charitable under the laws of England and Wales through an association with cricket.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received Government grants
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appeared to be in excess of CC guidelines at the latest year end
  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 18 years

kate.hailstone@ecb.co.uk

02074321200

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/01/23£1,370£29,747£-28,378£0£38,917£38,91715.700
31/01/22£45,463£24,028£21,435£27£67,296£67,29633.600
31/01/21£27,371£19,754£7,617£8£45,895£45,89527.900
31/01/20£16,818£12,901£3,917£8£38,277£38,27735.600
31/01/19£21,997£18,035£3,962£8£34,342£34,34222.900
31/01/18£1,173£13,432£-12,259£11£30,379£30,34927.100
31/01/17£2,987£10,539£-7,552£19£42,647£43,08749.100
31/01/16£5,107£9,952£-4,845£20£50,183£50,18360.500
31/01/15£35,308£12,894£22,414£102£55,023£55,02351.200
31/01/14£14,298£7,886£6,412£45£32,608£32,60849.600
31/01/13£4,460£8,616£-4,156£40£26,197£26,07036.300
31/01/12£30,706£15,976£14,730£43£30,353£30,22622.700
31/01/11£8,007£11,401£-3,394£49£15,623£15,52716.300
31/01/10£11,151£12,647£-1,496£18£19,016£19,0161800
31/01/09£10,676£9,849£827£5£20,512£20,5122500
31/01/08£14,620£7,031£7,589£6£19,685£19,68533.600
31/01/07£7,854£3,458£4,395£4£12,096£12,0964200

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 5.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.1%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 15%
Liabilities/Income: 499%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 15.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.8
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides other finance
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 38-79
  • SCOTT SMITH Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Chief Financial Officer
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/12/2005, number: 1112540
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/06/2005, number: 05483977
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
17 returns made; all on time
Main office

England and Wales Cricket Trust
Lord's Cricket Ground
St Johns Wood
London
NW88QZ

Objectives

(1) PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR PLAYING CRICKET AND OTHER SPORTS (FACILITIES MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES);(2) TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR SPORT, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY R DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; AND (3) TO PROMOTE ALL PURPOSES RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES FROM TIME TO TIME IN PARTICULAR THROUGH AN ASSOCIATION WITH CRICKET.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
CharityBase
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