**Charity registration No. 1133694 Company Registration No. 07027448 (England and Wales)** 

## **Sports Connections Foundation** 

**Financial statements For the year ended 31 August 2024** 



## **Sports Connections Foundation** 

## **Legal and administrative information** 

## **Trustees** 

**Secretary Registered charity number Company number Registered office** 

**Independent examiner** 

**Bankers** 



## **Sports Connections Foundation** 

## **Contents** 

**Page** 



## **Sports Connections Foundation** 

## **Trustees’ report For the year ended 31 August 2024** 

## **Objectives, activities, achievements and performance** 

## _Use Sport to Help and Inspire Children.’_ 

## **Inspire Through Sport programme** 

_“Developing positive futures for children and young people”._ 



## **Sports Connections Foundation** 

## **Trustees’ report For the year ended 31 August 2024** 

## **Sporting Wishes programme** 

_“Making dreams come true for children living with life-limiting illnesses & conditions”._ 

## **Inspire Through Sport International programme** 

_“Using Sport and education to help guide children away from a life of poverty”._ 



**Trustees’ report For the year ended 31 August 2024** 

## **Sports Connections Foundation** 

## **Prokick Schools Challenge Programme** 

_“Increasing participation in sport, building self-esteem, resilience and education about global citizenship”._ 

## **Financial review** 

## _Reserves policy_ 

## **Risk Management** 

## **Structure, governance and management** 

## _Governing document_ 



## **Sports Connections Foundation** 

## **Trustees’ report For the year ended 31 August 2024** 

## _Tax status_ 

_Trustees_ 

_Capacity of Trustees_ 

_Appointment of Trustees_ 

**Public benefit statement** 

**Reference and administrative details** 

**Trustees' responsibilities in relation to financial statements** 



## **Sports Connections Foundation** 

**Trustees’ report For the year ended 31 August 2024** 

- Trowr Stage 

- [twee Sin _ 

**Chair of Trustees** 



**Sports Connections Foundation** 

**Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Sports Connections Foundation For the year ended 31 August 2024** 

## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner** 

## **Basis of independent examiner's report** 

## **Independent examiner's statement** 

[ YAACAOFTDARBBAAGDocuSigned[WA] by: SCs ees **Simon Hall FCCA CTA Saffery LLP** 



## **Sports Connections Foundation** 

## **Statement of financial activity For the year ended 31 August 2024** 

|||**2024**|**2024**|**2024**|**2023**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Total**|**Total**|
|||**funds**|**funds**|**funds**|**funds**|
||**Note**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Income and endowments from:**||||||
|Donations and legacies||84,780|37,040|121,820|138,067|
|Charitable activities:||||||
|Schools programme - Prokick||14,983|-|14,983|44,835|
|Inspire Through Sport||33,260|30,000|63,260|14,677|
|Gift aid||6,125|-|6,125|8,901|
|Other trading activities:||||||
|Eventincome||39,179|-|39,179|42,701|
|Investments:||||||
|Bank interest received||373|-|373|468|
|**Total income and endowments**||178,700|67,040|245,740|249,649|
|Expenditure on:||||||
|Raising funds||37,332|-|37,332|26,012|
|Charitable activities||142,247|77,755|220,002|254,635|
|**Total expenditure**|**2**|179,579|77,755|257,334|280,647|
|**Net income/(expenditure)**||(879)|(10,715)|(11,594)|(30,998)|
|Transfers||-|-|-||
|**Net income/(expenditure)**||(879)|(10,715)|(11,594)|(30,998)|
|**Balance brought forward**||32,112|42,949|75,061|106,059|
|**Balance carried forward**||31,233|32,234|63,467|75,061|





## **Sports Connections Foundation** 

## **Balance sheet As at 31 August 2024** 

||||**2024**||**2023**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Note**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Fixed assets**|||||||
|Intangible fixed assets|**5**|1,303|||1,955||
|Tangible fixed assets|**6**|4,099|||7,405||
|||||5,402||9,360|
|**Current assets**|||||||
|Debtors|**7**|2,000|||997||
|Cash atbankand inhand||57,647|||67,516||
|||59,647|||68,513||
|**Creditors: amounts falling due**|||||||
|**within one year**|**8**|1,582|||2,812||
|**Net current assets**||||58,065||65,701|
|**Total assets**||||63,467||75,061|
|**Funds**|||||||
|Unrestricted income fund||||31,233||32,112|
|Restricted income funds|**10**|||32,234||42,949|
|**Total assets**||||63,467||75,061|



## **Trustees’ responsibilities** 


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**Chair of Trustees Company Registration No. 07027448** 



## **Sports Connections Foundation** 

## **Notes to the financial statements (continued) For the year ended 31 August 2024** 

**1. Accounting policies** 

## **1.1 Charity information** 

## **1.2 Accounting convention** 

- **1.3 Going concern** 

## **1.4 Cash and cash equivalents** 

- **1.5 Fixed assets** 

- **1.6 Income** 



## **Sports Connections Foundation** 

## **Notes to the financial statements (continued) For the year ended 31 August 2024** 

## **1. Accounting policies (continued)** 

## **1.7 Expenditure** 

## **1.8 Fund accounting** 

## **1.9 Taxation** 

## **1.10 Employee benefits** 



## **Sports Connections Foundation** 

**Notes to the financial statements (continued) For the year ended 31 August 2024** 

## **1. Accounting policies (continued)** 

## **1.11 Financial instruments** 

## **Basic financial assets** 

## **Other financial assets** 

## **Basic financial liabilities** 

## **Other financial liabilities** 

- **1.12 Leases** 

## **1.13 Government grants** 



## **Sports Connections Foundation** 

## **Notes to the financial statements (continued) For the year ended 31 August 2024** 

|**2.**|**Analysis of total expenditure**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**2024**|**2024**|**2024**|**2023**|
|||**Direct**|**Support**|**Total**|**Total**|
|||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
||**Expenditure on raising funds**|||||
||Eventand fundraising costs|30,656|6,676|37,332|26,012|
|||30,656|6,676|37,332|26,012|
||**Expenditure on charitable**|||||
||**activities**|||||



|**Other expenditure**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Total**|161,955|95,379<br>257,334|280,647|
|**Support costs**||**2024**|**2023**|
|||**£**|**£**|





**Sports Connections Foundation** 

**Notes to the financial statements (continued) For the year ended 31 August 2024** 

|**3.**|**Employees**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Support costs**||**2024**|**2023**|
||||**£**|**£**|
||Wages and salaries||157,888|159,639|
||Social security costs||8,575|8,559|
||Pension costs||3,317|3,126|
||||169,779|171,324|
||**Number of employees**||**2024**|**2023**|
|||**Number**||**Number**|
||The average number ofemployees duringthe yearwas:||6|7|
||No employee received remuneration in excess of£60,000 (2023: 0)||||
|**4.**|**Trustees and related party transactions**||||
||No Trustee, or persons connected with the Trustees, received any|remuneration or were|||
||reimbursedanyexpenses fromthe charityduringtheyear (2023: None).||||
||During the year no donations (2023: None) were received from a||company owned and||
||controlledbya Trustee.||||
|**5.**|**Intangible fixed assets**||||
||**Software             Total**|**Software             Total**||**Software             Total**|
||||**£**|**£**|
||**Cost**||||
||At 1 September 2023||3,259|3,259|
||Additions||-||
||Disposals||-||
||At 31 August2024||3,259|3,259|
||Amortisation||||
||At 1 September 2023||1,304|1,304|
||Charge for theyear||652|652|
||Eliminated on disposal||-||
||At 31 August2024||1,956|1,956|
||**Net Book Value**||||





**Sports Connections Foundation** 

## **Notes to the financial statements (continued) For the year ended 31 August 2024** 

|**6.**|**Tangible fixed assets**|||
|---|---|---|---|
|||**Office**||
|||**Equipment         Total**|**Equipment         Total**|
|||**£**|**£**|
||**Cost**|||
||At 1 September 2023|13,221|13,221|
||Additions|-||
||Disposals|-||
||At 31 August2024|13,221|13,221|
||Depreciation|||
||At 1 September 2023|5,816|5,816|
||Charge for theyear|3,306|3,306|
||Eliminated on disposal|-||
||At 31 August2024|9,122|9,122|
||**Net Book Value**|||
||At 31 August2023|7,405|7,405|
||At 31 August2024|4,099|4,099|
|**7.**|**Debtors**|||
|||**2024**|**2023**|
|||**£**|**£**|
||Trade debtors|-|268|
||Prepayments and accrued income|2,000|729|
|||2,000|997|
|**8.**|**Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**|||
|||**2024**|**2023**|
|||**£**|**£**|
||Other creditors|1,582|2,812|
|||1,582|2,812|
|**9.**|**Analysis of assets between funds**|||
||**2024**|**2024**|**2024**|
||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Total**|
||**Fund**|**Fund**||
||**£**|**£**|**£**|





## **Sports Connections Foundation** 

## **Notes to the financial statements (continued) For the year ended 31 August 2024** 


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**Inspire Through Sport-** Developing sport. **Sporting Wishes-** Making dreams come conditions. **Inspire Through Sport International-** froma life of poverty. **Prokick Schools Challenge-** Increasing and education about global citizenship. **Street Games- ITS Programme** - Activities delivered in Huntingdon & St **Million Hours 19k- ITS programme** - 



## **Sports Connections Foundation** 

**Statement of financial activity For the year ended 31 August 2023** 

|**Prior year financial activity:**|**2023**|**2023**|**2023**|
|---|---|---|---|
||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Total**|
||**Funds**|**Funds**|**Funds**|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|



|**Total income and endowments**||
|---|---|
|Expenditure on:||
|Raising funds||
|Charitable activities||
|Other expenditure||
|**Total expenditure**|**2**|
|**Net income/(expenditure)**||
|Transfers||
|**Net income/(expenditure)**||
|**Balance brought forward**||
|**Balance carried forward**||