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Registered charity · London

Special Olympics Great Britain

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £1.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
Disability, Amateur Sport
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.specialolympicsgb.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Special Olympics Great Britain
Registered
1988

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.8m£1.7m
  • 2024£1.9m£2.0m
  • 2023£2.0m£2.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.8m£1.6m
  • 2021£1.1m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 22%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES (INCLUDING THE ORGANISING OF SPORTING ACTIVITIES), FOR ANYONE WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND IN PARTICULAR TO ORGANISE, SUPPORT AND PROMOTE OLYMPIC-STYLE GAMES EVENTS AND COMPETITIONS FOR SUCH PERSONS, WHO BY REASON OF THEIR DISABILITY HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING THEIR WELLBEING AND THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE COMMUNITY; ANDTO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN SOCIETY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN PROVIDING FACILITIES AS DESCRIBED IN THE PRECEDING OBJECT.

Grants received

56 grants · £5,438,178 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.

11 trustees on the board

3.9y median 6y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

11
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 10Disability 10Education/training 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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 15Professional services 5Finance 3

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.9m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

5.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 11.3 in 2020

19 from 9 in 2020
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
800329
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 30 SEP 1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 SEP 1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10 DEC 2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27 SEP 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03 AUG 2022 as amended on 13 Mar 2024
Companies House
Company number 02301452 · Active
Contact on the register
02072478891 · info@sogb.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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