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Registered charity · Folkestone

The Sports Trust

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Amateur Sport, Recreation
Where
Kent
Website
www.thesportstrust.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Sports Trust
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.5m
  • 2024£1.1m£1.2m
  • 2023£1.1m£1.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.7m£917k
  • 2021£2.1m£429k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 30%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY (THE “OBJECT”) IS THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE DISTRICT OF SHEPWAY BY ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND OTHER SERVICES THAT WILL ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN AMATEUR SPORTS.

Grants received

11 grants · £294,364 total

360Giving 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

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

3.8y median 1y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Amateur Sport 10Recreation 9Education/training 1General Charitable Purposes 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 9Business services 3

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.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.4m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.0 in 2021

22 from 12 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1155522
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 24 JUL 2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 17/01/2014 as amended on 15 Feb 2022
Companies House
Company number 08623233 · Active
Contact on the register
01303765151
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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