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Registered charity (CIO) · Bristol

The Bristol Sport Foundation

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 2 more
Where
Bath And North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Bristol City
Website
www.bristol-sport.co.uk/community (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.6m£1.4m
  • 2024£1.6m£1.5m
  • 2023£1.7m£1.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£1.2m
  • 2021£980k£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 6%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE BRISTOL SPORT FOUNDATION ARE:• TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF SPORTS CAPABLE OF IMPROVING HEALTH• TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR SPORT, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIMEOCCUPATION OF SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.• TO HELP AND EDUCATE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE (INCLUDING THEIR ACADEMIC, SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS TRAINING) THROUGH SPORT, RECREATION, LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES AND SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHARITY LAW AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY REACH THEIR POTENTIAL AND GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.• FOR THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES OR FOR SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN EACH CASE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE OBJECTS THE TERM FACILITIES SHALL INCLUDE LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTS ACTIVITIES.

Grants received

8 grants · £648,279 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.

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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.

7 trustees on the board

2.7y median 1y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (2)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 7General Charitable Purposes 7The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 6Amateur Sport 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 7Education 3Other 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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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£1.6m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

5.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.2 in 2021

43 from 31 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
1165410
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Foundation Registered 03 Feb 2016
Contact on the register
01179630683 · foundation@bristol-sport.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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