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Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 4
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 5 ?

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:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
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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
31/03/23£43£56£-14n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/22£33£18£16n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£33£10£23n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£43£42£1n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/19£47£42£5n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/18£45£49£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£28£22£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£10£7£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£16£7£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£7£13£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£17£12£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£17£6£11£0£0£0n/a00
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 13 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'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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£20,000
Co-Operative Group£6,032
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside£5,000
Sport England£4,380
Herefordshire Community Foundation£2,000
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£1,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
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 ....more
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 ....more
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 ....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 ....more
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 ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

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
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • 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
CharityBase
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