Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 5
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

SPORTING CHALLENGE

Sporting Challenge is a family led charity started in 2008 operating in the borough of West Lancashire supporting people aged 18 or over with learning disabilities, where all members of the Board of Trustees are parents and carers themselves. Our activities include: aerobics, ten pin bowling, boccia & kurling, and other fitness activities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
31/03/24£85£51£34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/23£43£56£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/22£33£18£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/21£33£10£23n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/20?£43£42£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/18£45£49£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£28£22£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16£10£7£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15£16£7£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£7£13£-6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/13£17£12£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/12£17£6£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 14 years

http://www.sporting-challenge.org.uk/

info@sporting-challenge.org.uk

01704897177

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Lancashire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities

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
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
Sport England£14,380
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside£10,000
Co-Operative Group£2,822
Herefordshire Community Foundation£2,000
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£1,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sport England - Fitness Nights for Sporting Challenge
£10,000 29/01/2024
12
This project will deliver weekly sessions of activities across 1 year for local adults with learning disabilities, who live with family/carers. Activities will include swimming, exercise, curling, golf and boccia. Funds will cover transport for ....more
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Sporting Challenge 2023-4 Positive Health Project
£5,000 20/12/2023
12
To provide sport opportunities to adults with learning difficulties, it allows them to socialise, learn new skills, and give carers a break knowing the service users are safe and supported.
Herefordshire Community Foundation - Sporting Challenge 2022-3 Mental Health Project
£2,000 30/01/2023
Grant to Sporting Challenge
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Sporting Challenge 2022-3 Mental Health Project
£5,000 01/12/2022
To provide sessions across isolated areas within west Lancashire to support mental welfare and decrease loneliness
National Lottery Community Fund - Sporting Challenge 2023
£10,000 04/11/2022
The funding will deliver a programme of sporting activities for adults with learning difficulties with the aim of reducing social isolation and improving mental and physical health.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Sporting Challenge
£2,822 23/10/2021
We would like to run sports sessions for adults with learning disabilities in West Lancashire.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Sporting Challenge
£1,500 02/03/2021
Small Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
Sport England - Fitness Nights for Sporting Challenge
£4,380 08/07/2020
12
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Fitness Nights for Sporting Challenge. This project is a Exercise & Fitness project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
National Lottery Community Fund - Sporting Challenge 2020 New Decade Project
£10,000 03/04/2020
11
The charity will continue to provide a programme of sociable fitness activities for people with learning and physical disabilities with the aim of keeping attendees in good health and reducing social isolation.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Sporting Challenge
£3,210 15/11/2019
We want to help our disability group members to take part in sports sessions, and take them on a short break to an 'Outward Bound' centre.
National Lottery Community Fund - Sporting Challenge Activties
£10,000 31/01/2019
12
The charity will continue to provide a programme of sociable fitness activities for people with learning and physical disabilities with the aim of keeping them in good health and supported by the friendships that they can make._x000D_ Funding will ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Fitness Activities for Adults with Additional Needs.
£10,000 20/12/2017
12
The group will deliver a series of various sporting activities to people with learning difficulties to help to improve their physical health and wellbeing, which also help to increase their confidence and self-esteem.
National Lottery Community Fund - Activities for Adults with Learning Disabilities.
£10,000 26/10/2016
12
This project will use the funding to run a continuation of activities which offer a range of sporting activities to improve the health of adults with learning difficulties. This will increase the fitness and wellbeing for a beneficiary group who ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ALASDAIR DONALD WATSON (Chair) Appointed: 2016
  • CHRISTINE ELIZABETH TAYLOR Appointed: 2020
  • KATHRYN AMELIA BRADY Appointed: 2019
  • MARIE CLAIRE MONK Appointed: 2020
  • MILDRED WATSON Appointed: 2018
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/02/2011, number: 1140207
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
12 returns made; all on time
Main office

17 Bramble Way
Burscough
ORMSKIRK
L40 5BP

Objectives

TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF OPPORTUNITIES AND FACILITIES IN THEINTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PHYSICAL RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIMEOCCUPATION FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OFTHEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIALCIRCUMSTANCES, IN PARTICULAR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES WHO ARERESIDENT IN THE WEST LANCASHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS, WITH THE OBJECTOF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WEST LANCASHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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