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2025-12-31-accounts

TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT JAN - DEC 2025

Progress and Accounts for the Charity

United Through Sport is a UK Registered Charity (number 1102107)

Table of Contents

1. Charity Details

2. Charity Objectives and Governance

3. Charity Achievements and Performance

3.2. United Through Sport Beneficiaries 4. Financial Review

5. Independent Examiner’s Report

6. Financial Activities for Year Ending 31st December 2025

1. Charity Details

1.1. Charity Name and Contact Details

Charity Name:

United Through Sport

Registered Charity Number:

1102107

Correspondence Address:

Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS1 3QY, United Kingdom.

1.2. Charity Trustees for year ending 31[st] December 2025

Mr David Burton (Chair) Mrs Amy Whiting Mr Thomas Goold

1.3. Professional Advisors and Bankers

Bankers:

CAF Bank, 25 Kings Hill Avenue, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent, ME19 4JQ.

Independent Examiner:

Matthew Jones

2. Charity Objectives and Governance

2.1. Charity Vision and Objectives

United Through Sport is a sports development charity operating on an international basis to support individual and community development in deprived regions throughout the world. The charity works with a reliable and accountable network of vetted grassroots charities and not-for-profit organisations located in specific target countries, through which sponsored programmes are run and managed. United Through Sport works in partnership with these organisations to raise awareness and funds as well as advising on project direction and policy.

The Vision of United Through Sport, as ratified by the charity trustees is as follows:

  1. To bring people together to play sport, have fun, build friendships and advance community development.

  2. To develop people to their full potential in:

  3. Sport

  4. Education

  5. Health

  6. Use sport as a tool for development – through its direct benefits, by developing life-skills and addressing critical issues

All projects funded by United Through Sport must fulfil this Vision. The target countries for United Through Sport during the year were South Africa, Argentina and St Lucia.

2.2. Management and Governance

Trustees are elected by the majority vote of the existing trustee body. Additional trustees are introduced to the charity provided it is considered that they bring significant benefit to the organisation through their specific skills and their dedication to the United Through Sport Vision. There is no official limit on trustee numbers, but the body is not expected to rise above three members at present.

The chair of trustees is responsible for the induction of any new trustee which involves awareness of a trustee’s responsibilities, the governing document, administrative procedures, and the Vision of the charity.

The trustees annually review the risks that the charity faces. The friends and members of the charity are currently protected through employers liability and public liability insurance. In addition, the charity works with a trusted network of registered charitable organisations overseas to avoid the risk of irresponsible, fraudulent or criminal use of funds.

2.3. Funding Policy

During the course of 2025, funds were distributed at the point of need. All beneficiary payments were reviewed and approved by unanimous trustee vote.

Funds are allocated in response to requests from trusted organisations responsible for projects in the target countries. Each request must be accompanied by an outline proposal which identifies the cost, benefit and sustainability of the projects requiring funding.

3. Charity Achievements and Performance

3.1. Achievements for the period

We continue to maintain a good impact in the communities of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, with guidance provided to satellite units in St Lucia, Argentina, Ghana and Mauritius.

South Africa is our main programme with updates from the field as follows:

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4. Financial Review

4.1 Financial Policy

For 2025, United Through Sport has taken a low-risk policy to investment.

The charity has a reserves policy to ensure that unreserved cash balances do not fall below £10,000 at any time. This policy remained in 2025.

At present the charity only supplies payments to beneficiaries for initiatives which are sustainable without a guarantee of future support from United Through Sport. The charity therefore has no fixed future financial commitments to beneficiaries and will offer support on a case-by-case basis until further notice. This implies that the charity’s reserves policy is dictated only by operational expenditure and not by future commitments to beneficiaries.

The charity has a target of distributing 75% of total income to beneficiary projects in-country, with 25% retained for UK administration.

4.2 Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities

Charity law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which show a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and its financial activities for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 1993. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Signed on Behalf of the Trustees by David Burton.

Signed:

Date: Jul 2026

5. Independent Examiner’s Report

I report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31[st] December 2025, which are set out in Section 6.

5.1 Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

The charity’s Trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the Act)) and that an independent examination is needed.

It is my responsibility to:

5.2 Basis of the independent examiner’s report

My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.

5.3 Independent examiner’s statement

In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the trustees have met the requirements to ensure that:

Signed: Matthew Jones

Date: Jul 2026

6. Financial Activities for Year Ending 31st Dec 2025

6.1 Receipts and Payments

Unrestricte
d Funds
£
Restricted
Funds
£
Total Funds
2025
£
Total
Funds
2024
£
RECEIPTS


General Income
 1,067
100,411
101,478
81,254
Online Platform Income (Total Giving) 1,456
16,075
17,531
12,636

Sales		 6,269
-
6,269
4,111
Bank Interest 65
-
65
155
Total Receipts 8,857
116,487
125,344
98,156



PAYMENTS


Beneficiary Payments 12,749
115,416
128,165
91,611

Development Costs		 -
924
924
-
Fees deducted from Income 110
776
886
637
Marketing and Event Costs 3,632
3,268
6,899
2,080

Personnel Costs		 -
7,200
7,200
14,039
IT Costs (inc JustGiving) 216
-
216
216

Administration Costs		 -
3,468
3,468
3,502
Gift Aid Repayment -
-
-
-

Total Payments		 16,707
131,052
147,759
112,084



LOAN RECEIVED FROM UTS SOUTH
AFRICA


Loan Received
 -
1,981
1,981
51,111
Loan Repayments -
000
000
(49,130)

Balance of loan		 -
1,981
1,981
1,981
NETSURPLUS


Net of Receipts / Payments
 (7,850)
(14,565)
(20,434)
(61,076)

Adjustment from previous year		 -
24
0
0

Cash Funds Last Year End		 50,387
(3,170)
47,217
110,274
Cash Funds This Year End 42,537
(17,760)
24,777
47,217

6.2 Statement of Assets and Liabilities

Unrestricted
Funds
£
Restricted
Funds
£
Total Funds
2025
£
ASSETS

Cash at Bank
 42,537
(17,760)
24,777
Total Cash Funds 42,537
(17,760)
24,777
LIABILITIES

Loan from UTS South Africa
 -
1,981
1,981
Total Liabilities 0
1,981
1,981