Finance Score: -7

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 5

Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
All male board: -3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: -3

SPORTS CONNECTIONS FOUNDATION

To advance education and amateur sport, to inspire, bring hope and relieve suffering of underprivileged children through sporting achievement, providing visits by retired professional sportspersons especially footballers to schools and other organisations to provide training in order to pass on their sporting and life skills in the United Kingdom or the World

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees
The Board is completely male

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

Established: 14 years

www.scfchildrenscharity.org.uk

info@scfchildrenscharity.org.uk

01733 390337

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
31/08/22		£156	£252	£-96	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/08/21		£289	£110	£180	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/08/20	*	£126	£113	£13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/08/19	*	£177	£196	£-19	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	30
31/08/18		£209	£207	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	8
31/08/17		£127	£139	£-12	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/16		£172	£140	£32	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/15		£180	£227	£-47	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/14		£441	£399	£41	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/13	*	£309	£314	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/12		£522	£578	£-56	£146	£17	£17	0.4	2	0
31/08/11		£285	£212	£73	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Amateur Sport
Education/Training
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Other charitable activities

Where it operates

Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
8 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - MH Pop up Summer Sport & Social on the Oxmoor Estate
£9,950	11/08/2023	The funding will be used to provide sports and social activities for young people. The project aims to provide an alternative to antisocial behaviour as well as improving wellbeing fitness and life ....more The funding will be used to provide sports and social activities for young people. The project aims to provide an alternative to antisocial behaviour as well as improving wellbeing fitness and life skills.
The Fore - Grant to Sports Connections Foundation
£28,000	12/04/2021 36	Based in Peterborough, Sports Connections Foundation (SCF) is a children’s charity that uses the power of sport to engage, inspire, empower & educate children and young people aged 5-21. Since ....more Based in Peterborough, Sports Connections Foundation (SCF) is a children’s charity that uses the power of sport to engage, inspire, empower & educate children and young people aged 5-21. Since 2010, they have engaged with over 550,000 childen and young people nationwide through their programmes. SCF are using their Fore grant to fund the salary of a recently recruited Income and Engagement Manager (IEM), enabling SCF to build a programme of fundraising, corporate/individual giving and to secure grant funding in order for the organisation to grow to meet the increasing demand for its programmes.
National Lottery Community Fund - Inspire Through Sport - Theme positive mentoring
£10,000	09/04/2021	The funding will be used to deliver mentoring and activity sessions based around sport media art drama music and dance to secondary school-aged young people. The project aims to improve community ....more The funding will be used to deliver mentoring and activity sessions based around sport media art drama music and dance to secondary school-aged young people. The project aims to improve community cohesion and help the most vulnerable young people through building of confidence and interpersonal skills.
National Lottery Community Fund - Themed Positive Mentoring
£10,000	11/04/2019 12	The organisation will use the funding to run a programme of positive mentoring sessions for children and young people in order to improve opportunities for young people at risk of becoming involved ....more The organisation will use the funding to run a programme of positive mentoring sessions for children and young people in order to improve opportunities for young people at risk of becoming involved in anti-social behaviour.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 42-68

BENJAMIN JOHN QUAIL Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Atd Certified Master Instructional Designer

DANIEL BASS Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Technology Director

MIKE LORANDEAU Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Project Manager

TREVOR SINGLE (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Portfolio Executive, Other trusteeship: MONEY ADVICE ST NEOTS,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/01/2010, number: 1133694
Registered at Companies House on 23/09/2009, number: 07027448

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

12 returns made; AR20: 43 days late, AR19: 26 days late, AR13: 28 days late,

Main office

Sports Connections Foundation
First Floor
103 High Street
Huntingdon
PE29 3LL

Objectives

A) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND AMATEUR SPORT PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING VISITS BY RETIRED PROFESSIONAL SPORTSPERSONS ESPECIALLY FOOTBALLERS TO SCHOOLS AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS TO PROVIDE TRAINING IN ORDER TO PASS ON THEIR SPORTING AND LIFE SKILLS IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT B) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND, IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT AND TO FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHARITY;

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD

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