Registered charity · West Midlands
Sporting Equals
- 10 trustees
- Income £1.4m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Dr Howard Phillip HaughtonChair · since 2024
- Lindon Wilson NeilTrustee · since 2024
- Monica ShafaqTrustee · since 2026
- Naseem AkhtarTrustee · since 2025
- Naz DeenTrustee · since 2021
- Nikita SmithTrustee · since 2024
- Oriana Isabel ChirinosTrustee · since 2026
- Richard Patel-GraingerTrustee · since 2025
- Simon Philip KirklandTrustee · since 2026
- Stephen Douglas ShawTrustee · since 2024
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Amateur Sport, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity and 1 more
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
- Website
- www.sportingequals.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Sporting Equals
- Registered
- 2007
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.4m£1.4m
- 2024£1.0m£1.2m
- 2023£1.3m£1.1m
Earlier years
- 2022£984k£723k
- 2021£701k£627k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 50%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN SPORT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BYA) WORKING TOWARDS THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE;B) PROMOTING THE PARTICIPATION AND INTEGRATION OF MEMBERS OF ETHNIC MINORITY MIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITIES IN SPORT;C) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS IN EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY;D) CONDUCTING OR COMMISSIONING RESEARCH ON EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY ISSUES AND PUBLISHING THE RESULTS TO THE PUBLIC; ANDE) PROMOTING ETHICAL STANDARDS OF CONDUCT AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW IN RELATION TO RACE RELATIONS AND RACIAL EQUALITY.
Grants received
32 grants · £8,377,948 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- Sport England · £6,950,948 (24 grants)
- Comic Relief · £645,000 (2 grants)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £400,000
- London Marathon Foundation · £327,000
- Peter Harrison Foundation · £25,000
Most recent
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
10 trustees on the board
- Dr Howard Phillip Haughton Chair since 2024
- Lindon Wilson Neil since 2024
- Monica Shafaq since 2026
- Naseem Akhtar since 2025
- Naz Deen since 2021
- Nikita Smith since 2024
- Oriana Isabel Chirinos since 2026
- Richard Patel-Grainger since 2025
- Simon Philip Kirkland since 2026
- Stephen Douglas Shaw since 2024
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Dr Howard Phillip Haughton Chair since 2024
- Lindon Wilson Neil since 2024
- Naseem Akhtar since 2025
- Naz Deen since 2021
- Nikita Smith since 2024
- Oriana Isabel Chirinos since 2026
- Richard Patel-Grainger since 2025
- Simon Philip Kirkland since 2026
- Stephen Douglas Shaw since 2024
Portfolio (1)
- Monica Shafaq since 2026
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
2.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.7 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1119365
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 18/04/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/10/2014 as amended on 16 Sep 2020
- Companies House
- Company number 05853520 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 0121 777 1375 · info@sportingequals.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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