Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 14
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • All male board: -3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

THE SPORTING MEMORIES FOUNDATION 

We work together across generations to establish effective solutions on how to engage older people to tackle dementia, depression & loneliness. We recruit, train, manage and support volunteers to facilitate sporting memories activities across communities
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received

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
  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 10 years

www.sportingmemories.uk

admin@sportingmemories.uk

07765864484

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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
31/03/23£82£146£-64n/an/an/an/an/a60
31/03/22£168£117£51n/an/an/an/an/a45
31/03/21£251£223£29n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/20£187£199£-11n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/19£104£92£12n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/18£49£73£-24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£90£89£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£124£94£30£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15*£59£28£31£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 60 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Esmee Fairbairn£178,520
Leeds Community Foundation£60,425
Masonic Trust£15,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Sport England£9,050
Two Ridings Community Foundation£7,300
Suffolk Community Foundation£4,578
Sir George Martin Trust£2,300
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Leeds Community Foundation - Sporting Memories Leeds
£50,000 13/02/2024
11
Grant to The Sporting Memories Foundation
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000 14/07/2023
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Sporting Memories Foundation
£2,300 15/03/2023
Capital and core costs for Older People's Welfare
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Sporting Memories Foundation
£5,291 30/01/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£9,050 15/02/2022
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project is a Sport participation and capacity building project, ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - Sporting Memories Suffolk
£4,578 06/05/2021
11
Supporting Sporting Memories with new equipment for clubs for older people.
National Lottery Community Fund - Sporting Memories Gateshead
£10,000 12/03/2021
11
The funding will be used to set up two Sporting Memories clubs in partnership with local health care providers for isolated older people aged 50 plus living with conditions such as dementia ....more
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Covid19
£7,300 17/06/2020
Funding for staff time to be able to support with adjusting the activities they run for older people and moving them online.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Sporting Memories Foundation
£24,202 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Leeds Community Foundation - Sporting Memories - Leeds
£5,575 10/12/2019
11
We will establish two new weekly Sporting Memories club in Leeds. The weekly sessions will include an hour of sporting reminiscence and cognitively stimulating games facilitated by trained volunteers ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Sporting Memories Foundation
£149,027 22/10/2019
36
Towards project costs for the establishment of 10 new weekly Sporting Memory clubs for isolated older people in Plymouth, trialling a new social licence model with a partner organisation.
Leeds Community Foundation - Sporting Memories - Leeds
£4,850 28/06/2019
12
The project will provide two weekly Sporting Memories Club's delivering reminiscence, social and inclusive physical activities that improve the mental and physical well-being of older people (50+) ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Suffolk Sporting Memories
£93,546 28/02/2019
36
Funding for the project will be spent on a media campaign, IT equipment and additional staff.
Spirit of 2012 - Replay Sporting Memories
£69,872 23/10/2018
Project providing inclusive physical activities to older people to increase confidence and activity. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to project underspend and within agreed tolerance.- ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - Sporting Memories Suffolk - Rural Networks project
£3,450 19/10/2018
12
To expand the current provision across Suffolk.
Comic Relief - Rugby Memories: Generations in union
£9,980 19/07/2017
12
The project builds on a small intergenerational pilot developed with the RFU bringing together 30 young people from five Clubs from the rugby community with 40 older isolated people in their ....more
Spirit of 2012 - Sporting Memories - Toolkits
£24,674 07/10/2015
A project to road-test, process evaluate and modify the inter-generational toolkits created through the pilot project funded by Spirit of 2012. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to ....more
Spirit of 2012 - Sporting Memories - Le Grand Depart
£12,000 25/03/2015
Delivering memories events to celebrate the first anniversary of Le Grand Depart in Yorkshire and brings together different groups to record their memories. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ ....more
Comic Relief - Digital sporting reminiscence tools and resources
£154,706 18/03/2015
24
The project (based in the North East of England) aims to address the need to improve the well-being of isolated older men experiencing dementia, depression and social issues such as loneliness, ....more
Spirit of 2012 - Sporting Memories - original
£49,951 10/12/2014
Creating inter-generational, community and age specific pilot activities, online training to enable volunteers to engage in inter-generational activities. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 37-69
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 05/11/2013, number: 1154474
  • Registered at Companies House on 17/06/2013, number: 08571922
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
9 returns made; AR15: 53 days late,
Main office

Ashfords
Unit 2
Manor Court
Manor Mill Lane
LEEDS
LS11 8LQ

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF, AND PROMOTE AND PRESERVE THE GOOD MENTAL HEALTH OF PEOPLE AGED 50 YEARS OF AGE AND OVER WHO EXPERIENCE OR SUFFER FROM MEMORY RELATED CONDITIONS, SUCH AS DEMENTIA, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE FACILITATION AND DELIVERY OF THERAPEUTIC REMINISCENCE THERAPIES AND ACTIVITIES BASED UPON THE SUBJECT OF SPORT

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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