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REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER: 07743643 (England and Wales) REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1150486

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2025

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Richardson Jones Chartered Accountants & Registered Auditors Mercury House 19-21 Chapel Street Marlow Buckinghamshire SL7 3HN

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CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2025

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Reference and Administrative Details 1
Report of the Trustees 2 to 11
Report of the Independent Auditors 12 to 14
Statement of Financial Activities 15
Balance Sheet 16
Cash Flow Statement 17
Notes to the Cash Flow Statement 18
Notes to the Financial Statements 19 to 23
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Detailed Statement of Financial Activities		 24

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REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2025

TRUSTEES K R Ross MBE (resigned 16.3.25) A M Couper (resigned 16.3.25) P W Owen OBE (resigned 16.3.25) R Leach T Hussain R A Parker J Halliday H S Obhi H E Batchelor V Bradley A J Coveney (appointed 16.3.25) A C Strang (appointed 11.12.24) S A Humphreys (appointed 11.12.24) (resigned 1.4.25) A S Wyatt (appointed 16.3.25)

COMPANY SECRETARY B A Nicholls

REGISTERED OFFICE

Salisbury Room Bisham Abbey Sports Centre Marlow Road Nr Marlow Bucks SL7 1RR

REGISTERED COMPANY NUMBER 07743643 (England and Wales)

REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER 1150486 AUDITORS Richardson Jones Chartered Accountants & Registered Auditors Mercury House 19-21 Chapel Street Marlow Buckinghamshire SL7 3HN BANKERS Barclays Bank Leicester LE87 2BB

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ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE 2024-2025

Who We Are

Get Berkshire Active (GBA) is part of a network of 42 other similar organisations - Active Partnerships (APs) in England. We are loosely federated to and supported by a national team. We are a charity with a purpose to promote physical activity and sport to the benefit of the whole Berkshire population but specifically to support those most normally excluded.

Why Physical Activity

Physical activity (PA) is a cornerstone of good health, contributing significantly to the prevention and management of chronic diseases, mental health conditions, and social wellbeing. Yet, high levels of inactivity continue to drive increased pressure and costs within health and social care systems. The challenge is particularly acute in areas of socioeconomic deprivation, where inequalities in access to and engagement with physical activity contribute to broader health disparities. It is also known to have more collective, societal effects too, such as: reducing loneliness and isolation; providing positive outlets for troubled youths; creating more productive workforces and the potential to reduce ever spiralling health and social care costs to name but a few. Physical activity is an underappreciated asset in our clinical arsenal. This is despite it being described as the "best buy" for public health as far back as 1994. Today, barely a week goes by without a new piece of evidence on the contribution of physical activity to health, happiness, and longevity. Moreover, exercise is one of the cheapest and most effective forms of medicine.

What We Do and How We Do It

Our modus operandi is to work collaboratively and in partnership to get the most benefit from limited resources. Indeed, GBA is often seen as the organisation who brings others together; note our Local Authority (LA) forum, our Inclusion Forum, our Social Prescriber network, our Sports for Development forum and so on. GBA runs, supports and enables some great programmes. This includes delivering the Department of Education Opening Schools Facilities programme into Berkshire. We deliver our Active Medicine Programme (support and training) to health care and allied professionals to increase their skills, knowledge and confidence to have positive conversations on PA. We have an acclaimed Pregnancy & Postnatal programme and we run employability courses on behalf of Department of Work and Pensions (and train and support their staff). We have a growing Early Years Programme providing support, resources and training to professionals and venues in the Early Year's (EY) space. Our Live Longer Better programme is providing up-skilling to those professionals and agencies working with older people and we deliver an EverActive and Reconditioning. We have worked with Thames Valley Police (TVP) and the TV Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) running youth intervention and crime reduction programmes. We have delivered an ambitious programme of providing training and insight around system's thinking to a number of our LAs. We sit on the various LA Healthy Weight and PA advisory groups. During this year with significant funding from Sport England (SE) we embarked upon a significant place focused piece of work in Britwell (Slough) and have started to prepare for further Place Universal Offer investment from SE.

Our Work with Sport England

We continue to work closely with SE and they remain our major source of funding which comes in these two forms: System Role funding and delivery funding. System Role funding allows us to exist, operate and deliver our primary role to help SE achieve their national 'Uniting the Movement' strategy. Delivery funding is granted specifically to deliver defined projects such as the School Games.

This was the 3rd year of the 2022-2027 5-year cycle of SE funding and, in addition to their planned system and programme funding we received significant additional funding for the development phase of our work in Britwell.

A key role of all Active Partnerships is developing strategic networks across the county. GBA's role is to be the leading advocate for Sport and Physical Activity ensuring that key stakeholders such as NHS, Primary Care Networks (PCNs), Education Sector and Public Authorities maintain an emphasis and priority on physical activity. Our strategic engagement continues to grow locally and regionally. Due to the significantly increased interest in and importance of physical activity, in tackling inequalities and improving physical and mental health, our networks and conversations both with strategic partners and community led organisations have increased exponentially. Of particular note are the high numbers of people joining our forums and workshop events.

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GBA Strategic Intent

Our 2022-2026 Strategic Intent remains the central driver of our actions and it remains significantly aligned to the principles of Sport England's Uniting the Movement 10-year strategy. Our key objective is tackling inequalities both in the provision and uptake of physical activity but also in using physical activity to tackle wider societal issues such as around health and education. Our three key themed areas of work are Starting Life Well, Living Life Well and Ageing Well. This year we have embarked on a 6-stage (18 month) review of our Strategic Intent and have completed Stage 1 (initial review). Our plan is to re-launch a new Strategic Intent in April 2026.

How We Work

Across our three themes we have five specific pillars (or objective areas) and by working in these pillars we believe we will be having an overall positive effect on our mission. These standard pillars are:

i. Systems Change: If we are going to have a positive effect, we need to understand the levers and blockers to change to enable us to create the platform for change.

ii. Networks & Partners: We will continue to build wider partnerships especially with non-sporting /PA organisations that work with our key target audiences:

iii. Workforce: We will support all areas of the workforce to enable them to change and improve their delivery

iv. Interventions: Co-ordinating and enabling collaboration between the myriad interventions / delivery that is happening; driving change within them to support disadvantaged groups is key to success.

v. Learning & Improving: Continuous and incremental improvement, using detailed insight, is the key to successful and sustainable change.

Our Key Theme Work

Theme 1: Starting Life Well

1.1 Early Years Work -

i. Through successful funding from the Sports Council Trust, we have trained 5 workforces and distributed £6,635 to support 7 separate projects spread across Berkshire supporting over 500 children under 5 years old in our most disadvantaged areas. ii. GBA provided training directly within 4 early years settings, 4 home-based childminders and also reaching all children centre staff across Slough and Reading to support their skills, knowledge, confidence and practical ways they can embed

ii. GBA provided training directly within 4 early years settings, 4 home-based childminders and also reaching all children centre staff across Slough and Reading to support their skills, knowledge, confidence and practical ways they can embed PA daily.

iii. GBA hosted a face-to-face partner event at Bisham Abbey focused on 'Early Years- A future vision' with over 30 partners from a range of sectors including nursery settings, local authorities, Children's Centres, Health and schools to engage in a morning of information sharing and networking. The event focussed on engaging families within their settings to increase physical activity and ways this could be achieved. It also gave vital feedback from professionals as to what would benefit them moving forward.

1.2 School Support - In addition to the school-based work that is described below during 2024/25 we also staged our first schools conference for a number of years. The event held at Dorney Lake delivered in partnership with Berkshire SGO's saw 131 delegates (PE Lead and Senior Leads) from 98 schools attend (primaries and secondaries). We have also been part of various School Sport Partnerships steering groups and continued to work closely with Brighter Futures for Children in Reading. As part of this work, we have helped to co-ordinate regular Primary PE Lead meetings. Amongst other things we have provided guidance around the Sports Premium and set up student workforce programmes.

1.3 Berkshire School Games - In 2024/25 the Berkshire School Games continued in the same format as the previous year - large-scale multi-sport event at Braywick Leisure Centre, Maidenhead and series of separate badged events throughout the year including Cricket, Sportshall Athletics and Panathlon. There was, however, even more emphasis on targeting the events to ensure that they support the most disadvantaged pupils. The summer event was attended by 881 pupils from 89 schools, 24% of pupils had a Special Educational Need.

1.4 Opening School Facilities (OSF) - This year was the final year of Opening School Facilities, a 3-year Department for Education funded programme to provide additional physical activity opportunities for targeted pupils and to open up to the wider community. During the year, as well as sessions taking place in schools and for the community, we also delivered five learning and sharing sessions with LEAP for Berks, Bucks and Milton Keynes schools, giving them opportunities to hear from each other and share best practice and put together several case studies. £200,000 was invested in 16 Berkshire schools (primary, secondary and special). As a southeast region we achieved our participation targets.

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1.5 Children & Young People Active Lives Survey - Again this year we have continued to administer the survey in Berkshire on behalf of Sport England going out to the randomly selected schools each term. Our goal remains to try to get enough completions per local authority to obtain a local authority report (NB a minimum number of survey completions are required before a report is generated). Over the summer term we will put our efforts into the local authorities where completions are currently below target.

1.6 Crime Prevention:

GBA with support from StreetGames were successful in receiving a further year of funding from the Police and Crime Commission to build on the work we achieved in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM). We have successfully created a referral pathway aiming to link up statutory partners (Achieving for Children (AFC), Education, Youth Offending Teams) with community sport. The programme involves providing a pathway so any young person who is identified as being at risk of being involved/exploited in crime or anti-social behaviour can access sport with coaches who are upskilled to meet their needs.

At the end of March 25, we had received 80 referrals and engaged 54 young people (55% with ASD, ADHD, other disability) in 10+ hours of sporting provision. We have strengthened our partnerships with various sports providers including Leisure Focus, who are going to partner with us again to create a model similar to a GP referral scheme. This year we are looking to increase the number of clubs engaging with us, and better closely monitor and tracking the effect each provision has on each young person. We also ran many face to face events bringing together all the partners working on this project. This culminated in the formation of the Berkshire Sport for Good network which was held at Thames Valley Athletics Centre. This was delivered in partnership with StreetGames and Slough Borough Council. We had over 55 people attend from a number of different organisations with speakers from public health, youth services and the sporting interventions. Further funding will allow GBA to scale all this work, develop and build new areas (such as the Leisure Focus idea) and begin to change the way partners, particularly AFC, view and use sport and physical activity, all while further upskilling the sports providers.

We also attend various Community Safety meetings in RBWM and Reading, advocating for sport at those meetings. In RBWM, in a Subgroup of the Community Safety Partnership, we have managed to get sport and PA on the Groups Action plan, when it wasn't there before, which is a great win for us moving forward.

Theme 2: Living Life Well

2.1 The Active Medicine Programme: The Active Medicine Programme (AMP) is an umbrella term for various educational programmes to facilitate conversations around helping people and families to become more active. Between January 2024 and March 2025, 184 people engaged in the programme. Over the last year, we have also engaged with other Active Partners who deliver the AMP and hold regular bi-monthly meetings, encouraging collaboration, facilitating mutual learning and providing support for one another. Aside from LEAP, we currently have five APs delivering the AMP: Active Surrey, Active Sussex, Be Active Beds, We Sport and Herts Sports Partnership.

2.2 Pregnancy and Postnatal: A holistic maternity offer is in place which includes a quarterly PA in Maternity Berkshire wide network coming together to hear from experts, connect locally and look at ways to raise awareness and encourage women in this life-stage adopt regular activity throughout pregnancy and beyond. Resources were developed for a range of settings to highlight key messages in pregnancy, postnatally and moving with your baby which were well received. 72 This Mum Moves Ambassadors attended training in this period through the South East Public Health Workforce fund GBA secured and these are delivered in partnership with the Institute of Health Visiting and The Active Pregnancy Foundation. 5 local delivery classes in place with Sport in Mind as commissioned delivery partner, with 60 pregnant or postnatal women attending classes weekly. Quarterly maternity and early years newsletter distributed. Working with Frimley Local Maternity System partners to look at longer term system change and embedding PA within maternity pathways and a systems focused workshop was delivered to the maternity network. GBA also led the set-up of a national evaluation group to shape the TMM evaluation questions.

2.3 Employability Programmes (Adults): Late last year GBA was successful in a small bid from the UK Skills Fund. This was administered through Slough Borough Council, and we received £15k to support a cohort of NEET 18-24yr olds in Slough. We began working very closely with Slough Children First (Care Leavers Team) and the DWP. In January 25 we opened up for referrals and began in late January. All in, we received 15 referrals, which was lower than first targeted. 9 young people regularly attended the 10-week programme which focussed on building their Emotional Intelligence (delivered by Mobile Team Challenge) and giving them new challenges and experiences using our tried and trusted experiential learning techniques. A full Impact Report can be found HERE

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Theme 3: Ageing Well

3.1 Ever Active: Ever Active is an exercise Programme that supports older adults, who are seeking to improve their physical and mental health through the joy of seated movement, memory enhancing activities and fall prevention exercises (strength and balance). Our sessions also help to reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation as extra time is allocated before or after class for a coffee and chat. We currently deliver our Ever-Active Programme in Reading and West Berkshire, in areas of recorded higher deprivation and/or areas of high numbers of older adults who live alone.

During 2024-25 GBA continued to deliver eight weekly seated exercise sessions in the Reading area, two sessions in Caversham, two in Tilehurst, one session in Coley, one in Reading town Centre, one in South Reading and an online session.

Our West Berkshire Programme, GBA work in collaboration with Age UK Berkshire, Berkshire Vision and Berkshire Mencap to deliver an inclusive and varied Programme. During 2024-25 GBA delivered 9 regular weekly seated exercises sessions in West Berkshire covering Thatcham, Newbury, Hungerford, Theale, Pangbourne, Burghfield, Mortimer, one online session and a new additional session in Inkpen Village. When considering our partners' sessions, we delivered a combined total of twenty-two weekly sessions and GBA continue to measure strength and balance improvements. Every quarter we choose a different session to perform these measure and report. Our most recent findings below with our Mortimer Session.

Fall Prevention Measures

Sessions that participated in Fall Prevention Measures. Mortimer Library Number of participants who agreed to take part 8 Percentage of participants who improved lower body strength measure (sit to stand) 100% Percentage of participants who improved balance measure (Single leg balance) 100% Average percent increase with sit to stand exercise. (lower body strength) 30% Average percent increase with single leg balance (balance) 45%

3.2 Live Longer Better: Live Longer Better launched in 2020 as a collaboration between a number of Active Partnerships across the UK (including GBA), to fully capture the serious health crisis faced by older people and the ageing process. The over 80's population will double within ten years, with the majority of those aged 65 and over likely to experience poor health for more than half their remaining years causing additional stress on our current health and social care services. The mission is to enable people to Live Longer Better (mainly through the power of movement and science and strong evidence-based statistics), to increase healthy life expectancy and reduce the period of time at the end of life when people are very dependent on others. GBA support the Live Longer Better mission through our ageing well programmes such as our Ever Active and the Reconditioning Programme, plus GBA also host Live Longer Better online webinars, where we invite various health professionals to present for GBA, to discuss the importance of physical activity as we age. Our Live Longer Better webinars for 24/25 included:

NB: Information on all our previous webinars can be found here.

3.3 Reconditioning Programme: The aim of our Reconditioning Programme (RP) is to improve the independence of older adults who are reluctant to leave their homes due to low mobility or low confidence and are a high risk of falls. The vast majority of our referrals come through Reading Social Prescribers and are identified as individuals who would benefit from this service. GBA offer our clients an average of six one-to-one coaching sessions from the comfort of their own home (as this mitigates the barrier of clients having to travel to access strength enhancing provisions and programmes). Our sessions are designed to improve overall fitness through a bespoke, personal exercise programme tailored to their individual needs and goals. Their progress with strength, balance and confidence, is monitored and recorded throughout the programme in the form of a fitness test.

On completion of the Reconditioning Programme, clients are referred to various other organisations such Age UK for information on services such as the out and about service, GLL Healthwise programme, 50+ activities such as Tai Chi sessions, older adult social groups, lunch clubs etc to encourage continued independence and regular participation in exercise post the RP.

During 2024-25 the RP increased from one day a week to two days, therefore GBA engaged an additional instructor to deliver the RP. Unfortunately, our current funding bid for 2025-26 through the RIB project wasn't awarded. GBA are currently exploring other funding options for the continuation of the RP post April 2025.

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During 2024-25, our employed instructor qualified as a Level 3 Minor Adaptions Assessor. This qualification allows her to assess, recommend and install minor adaptions in a person's home to improve their safety with regards to fall prevention and promote independence around the home. She also enrolled on the Level 4 Postural Stability Instructor training and will be fully qualified in May 2025.

Reconditioning Programme for 2024-25 statistics

Total number of clients supported 63 Breakdown of above figure Total existing Clients 1 Total new referrals during April 24 - March 25 (NB GBA had to refuse referrals from Jan 2025 as funding ending) 62

Total number of clients who completed the programme. 50 (50/63) Total number of clients unable to complete the programme due to ill health 4 (4/63) Total number of clients still engaged in the programme post April 25 9 (9/63)

Mobility Outcomes for Reconditioning Programme 2024 - 2025

Percentage of clients, who completed the programme, strength ability improved 94% (47/50) Percentage of clients, who completed the programme, strength ability decreased 0% Percentage of clients, who completed the programme, strength ability remained the same 6% (3/50)

Percentage of clients, who completed the programme, balance ability improved 98% (49/50) Percentage of clients, who completed the programme, balance ability decreased 0% Percentage of clients, who completed the programme, balance ability remained the same 2% (1/50)

BEHAVIOUR CHANGE OUTCOMES Reconditioning Programme 2024 - 2025

Percentage of clients, who completed the programme, confidence improved 94% (47/50) Percentage of clients, who completed the programme, confidence decreased 0%

Percentage of clients, who completed the programme, confidence remained the same 6% (3/50) Average percent increase in confidence score over the year 33%

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3.4 Fall Proof: Our Fall Proof Resources focus on six exercises which are designed to improve strength and balance. Our Fall Proof resources come in the form of six prompt cards, with one exercise on each card. The cards are designed to be placed around the home in specific locations as a reminder to complete the exercises daily. For example, one card reads 'Going Past the stairs? Now's the time to complete your stepping up a step exercise.' All cards contain a written and visual explanation of how to perform the exercises safely and effectively.

During 2024-25 GBA distributed over 750 Fall Proof cards and our Live Longer Better Webinars are proving a successful opportunity to promote these cards and professionals often request a batch following these events.

Cross Cutting Themes

4.1 Workforce:

Sport and Physical Activity Skills Improvement Plan. This Plan would then set the direction for matching training provided by colleges, schools, and universities to exactly what employers are after. Meaning people leave these establishments with the correct qualifications to enter into work in the Sport and Physical Activity sector. We have begun rolling out CIMSPA's Skills Diagnostic to employers with over 20 now completed.

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We have also held a call in March 25 to update everyone with where we are at with the work and what the next steps are. We have been slightly hampered by CIMSPAs restructure and various other factors such as our CIMSPA area manager going on maternity leave. At present we are now going back out to speak directly with stakeholders with the aim of building a Berkshire Accountability Board, with this board maiming to convene its first meeting by July 25. These targets are still to be determined as we await the CIMSPA restructure.

4.2 Themed Forums and Support: Over the past year we have continued to hold regular partner engagement events which enable us to connect different organisations and link parts of the physical activity and wellbeing system together.

4.3 Measuring, evaluating and learning: The way we understand the impact of our work and our successes is continually changing; in the past we have used traditional KPIs but more recently we have developed more complex evaluation frameworks and developed assumptions along with explanations of change to measure and learn from our systemic work. Training from NELP and NPC (Sport England's evaluation and learning partners) has supported members of the team to develop their knowledge in this area and appreciate different methods of understanding some of our more complex work. This has been particularly useful in our place-based work in Britwell. Impact and learning reports are regularly created to highlight our successes and main learnings - these are useful to share externally but also provide a means of internal reflection. Once again, we have reported to Sport England in October 24 and April 25, providing a thorough update on our progress against several outcomes. Internal learning reviews have been crucial to improving as an organisation; in the past year we have undertaken 13 of these which have been useful in exploring blockers, enablers and solutions in our programme areas.

4.4 Insight: We use local and national data, insight and research to help us understand the needs of people in Berkshire and the unrepresented groups that we target. We've been given access to a tool called 'Moving Communities' and this has been useful in understanding physical activity and health data at an MSOA and LSOA level, providing support in bid applications and target areas for our Britwell work.

4.5 Marketing and Communications: To support our systems and place-based work, we launched a new webpage and resource hub, amplifying information about the initiative in Britwell. Key campaigns have included a week-long menopause initiative, featuring the completion of the 'Menopack', a comprehensive guide to getting active during menopause, and assets to help GP surgeries improve conversations with women. Our channels raised the profile of workforce events and promoted physical activity, such as the This Girl Can 10-year anniversary video. The website now focuses on serving the workforce with resource hubs as a primary function, which we will continue to update. We are also prioritising video formats to capture impact of interventions, such as the creation of an engaging interview style video for the RBWM Crime Prevention Programme, which supported funding applications. Additionally, we successfully completed the Project Power school partnership, delivering strength workshops, free comfortable activewear, and self-esteem talks to teenage girls in Slough, resulting in positive feedback and increased confidence levels for those notably disengaged.

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4.6 System Training: We have continued to deliver and expand delivery of various system training programmes to support groups of partners to understand what system thinking is. This training helps partners understand how to identify system changes that are needed in order to tackle inactivity and how they can contribute to this. We have also delivered training to other Active Partnerships and to specific groups ahead of Sport England Place investment. We have also delivered sessions to support the learning / thinking in allied sectors such as Healthy Food Environments, Environmental Sustainability, NGB's and have been approached recently to share learning with Sport Wales.

4.7 Strategic Partnership Support (System Change): GBA have continued to lead and support public health teams with 'Healthy Weight System Approaches'. We have led / co-facilitated workshops and strategic plans to tackle obesity with Slough and Reading Public health teams. We have delivered 5 workshops to Healthy Weight Partnerships involving local authorities, health partners, police, 3rd sector etc. This work has led to a clearer understanding of the system issues partners can work on and is currently supporting the development of physical activity system action plans. It has also led to indirect outcomes like a public health officer being embedded within planning and the creation of a long-term physical activity strategy in Slough (in development).

4.8 Sport England Place Investment

Get Berkshire Active is leading the Britwell Place Investment - a long-term, Sport England-funded programme focused on creating sustainable improvements in physical activity, health, and wellbeing within the Britwell community. GBA has been awarded £237K to deliver the Development Phase, which is centred on building local leadership, strengthening system-wide alignment and preparing for a community-led Research & Discovery process that will inform future delivery and investment. The initiative takes a whole systems, place-based approach, working alongside residents, organisations, and system partners to explore and address the deeper structural and systemic barriers that shape how people live, move, and connect. Rather than focusing on short-term provision or isolated interventions, the programme is rooted in the principles of equity, collaboration, and lived experience, with the aim of enabling meaningful, lasting, and community-led change.

Key Progress to Date

Next Priorities

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4.9 Mental Health - a plan for 2025 has been put together to address key themes which includes supporting the physical activity sector to be better equipped to support people with mental health conditions to be more active, working with NHS Talking Therapies Services (and other local mental health organisations) to help facilitate a holistic approach, integrating physical activity into Talking Therapies Services and mental health pathways to support longer term system change and raise awareness of the role physical activity can play in supporting people with mental health conditions (e.g. through training opportunities, a website Resource Hub and campaigns).

Key Policies & Standards:

5.1 Equality, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EEDI): Get Berkshire Active achieved approval from ADK Solutions and Sport England for their Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP). EEDI forms a regular part of team meeting discussions from specific topic discussions to learning workshops and we are continually updating our website and other resources and communications to ensure inclusive language and representative images. The team are working off a live EEDI Miro Board as part of bi-monthly team meetings to help highlight headline EEDI impact and action against our key strategic pillars which brings the DIAP to life. Board EEDI lead has been supportive in helping to shape this work and check and challenge areas.

5.2 Safeguarding: GBA continues to be committed to ensuring that the safeguarding and protection of young people and adults at risk is at the heart of what we and our partners do. Over the course of the last 12 months, we have:

continues to the project of engaging,

5.3 Sport Welfare Officer: The Sport Welfare (SWO) project continues to grow with 32 NGB's and 51 clubs engaging in the offerings with new engagements still taking place with the project entering its second year. This is a positive sign that word is spreading, and new clubs are seeing the benefit of engaging, alongside the multiple clubs who are regularly making use of the project.

New NGB's have also joined the project with England Hockey being a good example of this with a joint online forum held to introduce our SWO to the affiliated clubs in Berkshire and for them to hear how the project can support them locally. The English Cricket Board also recently gave the green light for SWOs to connect with their local organisations which has resulted in an introductory meeting taking place with Berkshire Cricket, with all clubs in the county being invited to our next forum. British Triathlon have also agreed to host an SWO introductory forum for clubs in Berkshire, taking place in June.

Online forums remain a popular offering with a GDPR forum taking place in January and an online safety forum in February. These were run in partnership with the SWO's in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Hampshire which continues to be a great network, allowing us to share capacity, resources, connections and expertise. These subjects were chosen because many club welfare officers (CWO's) had reported they would like to improve their knowledge in these areas.

Similarly, being an active bystander, and knowing how to intervene when witnessing poor behaviour is a subject many CWO's have said they would like support with, so we ran a forum on this in March. Additionally, our SWO has recently attended a train-the-trainer course on this subject which gives us the capability to deliver more in-depth training, either online or in person, in the future. He has already delivered a section of this to the GBA team. Additionally, he ran a Mental Health forum and presented at a forum for football CWOs organised by the new Safeguarding Manager at the Berks and Bucks FA. A forum with the new local representative from the DBS is also scheduled.

Multiple clubs and organisations have also benefited from more intensive one to one support and guidance from our SWO on specific issues they have encountered.

Finally, the first large scale 6-monthly data submission was submitted to Sport England to the end of March 2025.

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Finances:

6.1 Investment: It is part of Get Berkshire Active's role to source funding for sport and physical activity in the community. During this period, a total of £843K has been secured for programmes in Berkshire - £174K from non-Sport England sources and £669K has been invested in the county through Sport England's investment in our programmes.

6.2 Results for the year: The results are set out in the Statement of Financial Activities. Incoming resources for the year were £843K (2024: £826K), resources expended were £844K (2024: £843K) and the deficit for the year was £1K (deficit 2024: £18K). The fund balances carried forward on 31st March 2025 were £452K (2024: £453K) represented by restricted funds of £180K (2024: £174K) and unrestricted funds of £272K (2024: £279K) of which £180K is designated for unforeseen contingencies as detailed below.

6.3 Reserves Policy: The company will set aside a sum by way of a reserve against unforeseen contingencies - designated reserve. This sum will be used in the event of the organisation being threatened with closure, for redundancy payments, to cover long term sickness liabilities and maternity pay. The company will seek to maintain reserves equivalent to three months budgeted expenditure and will include a sum for this operating reserve in budget planning. This designated reserve is £180K as at 31st March 2025.

The charity holds reserves exceeding this amount and has started to fund some projects within the county and continues to maintain capacity in excess of current Sport England funding to deliver our objectives. The charity will continue to hold higher reserves short-term but the investment in projects and capacity should reduce unrestricted reserves to the minimum for complying with our policy by the end of this funding cycle (March 2027).

Structure, Governance and Management

7.1 Governing Document: The company is governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association dated 17th August 2011 as amended by Special Resolutions dated 7th December 2012, 17th December 2015, 20th September 2017 and 11th December 2019 and constitutes a limited company, limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies act 2006. GBA also publishes an annual governance statement in accordance with the UK Code of Sports Governance.

7.2 Board of Trustees: There were 3 retirements during this year where longstanding Board Members (BMs) reached the end of their allowed time on the board. Four new BMs were recruited but one resigned due to a change in her employment and geographic location. We now have 10 BMs. Details of our board can be found here. All Board Members/Trustees are registered on the Companies House and Charity Commission portals. We maintain our compliance with the UK Code of Sports Governance.

7.3 Trustee Recruitment & Induction: Trustees are recruited through an open and competitive process using this recruitment pack. We aim to cast our net far and wide and recruit a diverse range of suitably qualified individuals paying attention to both gender and other diverse categories. There is an induction process which helps to guide the new trustee in the first weeks/months of their appointment.

7.4 Management: GBA is led and managed by the CEO supported by an experienced Senior Leadership Team and a paid staff of mixed full and part-time roles. The organisation of the staff and their roles were reviewed alongside the implementation of our new strategic intent. The organisational chart as of Feb 25 is shown below.

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Organisational Structure

The CEO, Brett Nicholls, is ultimately responsible for the day to day management and long-term strategic leadership of the organisation. He is supported in this by four senior members (Nick West-Oram, Kirsty Heath, James Craggs and Cathy Carr) whom together make up the Senior Leadership team (SLT). In total, including the SLT, GBA employs 14 staff in a mixture of full and part-time roles to deliver its Strategic Intent. The CEO and GBA's Finance Director (Dr Claire Sweeney) report to the Board through its Chair (Richard Parker) and to the Finance & Governance Committee (a sub-committee of the full board) through its Chair (Avril Couper).

STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES' RESPONSIBILITIES

The trustees (who are also the directors of Get Berkshire Active Ltd for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice) including Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland".

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STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES' RESPONSIBILITIES - continued

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company 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 charitable company and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

In so far as the trustees are aware:

Approved by order of the board of trustees on ............................................. and signed on its behalf by:

................................................................. R A Parker - Trustee

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Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Get Berkshire Active Ltd (the 'charitable company') for the year ended 31st March 2025 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, the Balance Sheet, the Cash Flow Statement and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice), including Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland'.

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditors' responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC's Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

other

Other information

The trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report, other than the financial statements and our Report of the Independent Auditors thereon.

Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

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Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the charitable company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Report of the Trustees.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of trustees

As explained more fully in the Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities, the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue a Report of the Independent Auditors that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

We gained an understanding of the legal and regulatory framework applicable to Get Berkshire Active and the sector in which it operates, and considered the risk of acts by the charity that were contrary to applicable laws and regulations, including fraud. We designed audit procedures to respond to the risk, recognising that the risk of not detecting a material misstatement due to fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may involve deliberate concealment by, for example, forgery or intentional misrepresentations, or through collusion.

We focussed on laws and regulations which could give rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements, including, but not limited to, the Charities Act 2011 and UK tax legislation. Our procedures included:

There are inherent limitations in the audit procedures described above and, the further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely we would become aware of it. As in all our audits, we also addressed the risk of management override of internal controls, including testing journals and evaluating whether there was evidence of bias by the directors that represented a risk of material misstatement due to fraud.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located on the Financial Reporting Council's website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our Report of the Independent Auditors.

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Use of our report

This report is made solely to the charitable company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company's members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditors' report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Kevin Ellerby (Senior Statutory Auditor) for and on behalf of Richardson Jones Chartered Accountants & Registered Auditors Mercury House 19-21 Chapel Street Marlow Buckinghamshire SL7 3HN Date: .............................................

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2025

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Unrestricted
Restricted
fund
fund
Notes
£
£
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM
Charitable activities
3
Sport England
-
660,976
Local Authority
-
111,477
Other public body
-
100
Non-public
3,458
51,563
Investment income
2
15,669
-
Total
19,127
824,116
EXPENDITURE ON
Charitable activities
4
Sport England
-
634,945
Local Authority
-
121,755
Other public body
-
24,762
Non-public
20,712
42,219
Total
20,712
823,681
NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)
(1,585)
435
Transfers between funds
11
(5,186)
5,186
Net movement in funds
(6,771)
5,621
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward
279,579
174,048
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD
272,808
179,669		 31.3.25
Total
funds
£
660,976
111,477
100
55,021
15,669
843,243
634,945
121,755
24,762
62,931
844,393
(1,150)
-
(1,150)
453,627
452,477		 31.3.24
Total
funds
£
609,502
120,919
16,400
66,490
12,870
826,181
623,823
109,901
31,306
78,858
843,888
(17,707)
-
(17,707)
471,334
453,627

The notes form part of these financial statements

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BALANCE SHEET 31ST MARCH 2025

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31.3.25
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
fund
fund
funds
Notes
£
£
£
CURRENT ASSETS
Debtors
9
-
30,962
30,962
Cash at bank
272,808
187,413
460,221
272,808
218,375
491,183
CREDITORS
Amounts falling due within one year
10
-
(38,706)
(38,706)
NET CURRENT ASSETS
272,808
179,669
452,477
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES
272,808
179,669
452,477
NET ASSETS
272,808
179,669
452,477
FUNDS
11
Unrestricted funds
272,808
Restricted funds
179,669
TOTAL FUNDS
452,477
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to charitable
subject to the small companies regime.
The
financial
statements
were
approved
by
the
Board
of
Trustees
and
authorised
for
............................................. and were signed on its behalf by:		 31.3.24
Total
funds
£
65,700
488,323
554,023
(100,396)
453,627
453,627
453,627
279,579
174,048
453,627
companies
issue
on

.............................................

R A Parker - Trustee

............................................. P W Owen OBE - Trustee

The notes form part of these financial statements

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CASH FLOW STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2025

Notes
Cash flows from operating activities
Cash generated from operations
1
Net cash used in operating activities
Cash flows from investing activities
Interest received
Net cash provided by investing activities
Change in cash and cash equivalents in
the reporting period
Cash and cash equivalents at the
beginning of the reporting period
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of
the reporting period		 31.3.25
£
(43,771)
(43,771)
15,669
15,669
(28,102)
488,323
460,221		 31.3.24
£
(69,533)
(69,533)
12,870
12,870
(56,663)
544,986
488,323

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NOTES TO THE CASH FLOW STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2025

1. RECONCILIATION OF NET EXPENDITURE TO NET CASH FLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES RECONCILIATION OF NET EXPENDITURE TO NET CASH FLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES RECONCILIATION OF NET EXPENDITURE TO NET CASH FLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
31.3.25 31.3.24
£ £
Net expenditure for the reporting period (as per the Statement of
Financial Activities) (1,150) (17,707)
Adjustments for:
Interest received (15,669) (12,870)
Decrease in debtors 34,738 27,018
Decrease in creditors (61,690) (65,974)
Net cash used in operations (43,771) (69,533)
2. ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN NET FUNDS
Net cash At 1.4.24
Cash flow
£
£		 At 31.3.25
£
Cash at bank 488,323
(28,102)		 460,221
488,323
(28,102)		 460,221
Total 488,323
(28,102)		 460,221

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2025

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of preparing the financial statements

The financial statements of the charitable company, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

Income

All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.

Expenditure

Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.

Allocation and apportionment of costs

Charitable activites expenditure represents all costs incurred which are directly attributable to projects. Costs of generating funds represents expenditure incurred to promote the charity.

Taxation

The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities.

Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees. Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.

Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.

Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.

Fixed asset capitalisation policy

The charity has a policy not to capitalise assets under £1,000.

Pension

The charitable company pays into an auto-enrolment compliant group scheme since April 2015. This is a defined contribution pension scheme and payments are at the same rate for each employee. Contributions are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities in the period to which they relate.

2. INVESTMENT INCOME

31.3.25 31.3.24 £ £ Bank interest received 15,669 12,870

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3. INCOME FROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

Activity
Grants/Commissioned
projects
Sport England
Grants/Commissioned
projects
Local Authority
Grants/Commissioned
projects
Other public body
Grants/Commissioned
projects
Non-public		 31.3.25
£
660,976
111,477
100
55,021
827,574		 31.3.24
£
609,502
120,919
16,400
66,490
813,311

All grants received in the year related to the primary objects and activities of the charity.

4. CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS

Sport England
Local Authority
Other public body
Non-public		 Support
Direct
costs (see
Costs
note 5)
£
£
82,102
552,843
93,092
28,663
9,098
15,664
40,971
21,960
225,263
619,130		 Totals
£
634,945
121,755
24,762
62,931
844,393
SUPPORT COSTS
Sport England
Local Authority		 22/05/25 15:15 Management
£
552,843
28,663
Other public body 15,664
Non-public 21,960
619,130

5. SUPPORT COSTS

Support costs, included in the above, are as follows:

Management

Wages
Social security
Pensions
Rent
Travel
Insurance
Partnership meetings
Post, printing and stationery
IT and communications
Marketing
Computer and website costs
Other office costs
Payroll costs
Carried forward		 Sport
England
£
404,139
40,358
42,253
11,795
6,299
4,164
1,247
966
2,830
1,193
21,138
6,780
792
543,954		 Local
Other
Authority
public body
£
£
26,932
12,162
(1,923)
263
3,139
481
-
-
515
1,009
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
300
-
-
-
399
-
1,050
-
-
28,663
15,664

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5. SUPPORT COSTS - continued

Management - continued

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Sport
England
£
Brought forward
543,954
Governance and Board meetings
2,855
Audit fee
6,034
552,843
Non-public
£
Wages
19,126
Social security
1,186
Pensions
1,258
Rent
-
Travel
390
Insurance
-
Partnership meetings
-
Post, printing and stationery
-
IT and communications
-
Marketing
-
Computer and website costs
-
Other office costs
-
Payroll costs
-
Governance and Board meetings
-
Audit fee
-
21,960		 Local
Other
Authority
public body
£
£
28,663
15,664
-
-
-
-
28,663
15,664
31.3.25
31.3.24
Total
Total
activities
activities
£
£
462,359
409,840
39,884
32,711
47,131
41,066
11,795
12,185
8,213
6,024
4,164
3,211
1,247
2,044
966
561
3,130
3,402
1,193
4,668
21,537
15,914
7,830
4,681
792
756
2,855
3,489
6,034
6,030
619,130
546,582

6. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS

There were no trustees' remuneration or other benefits for the year ended 31st March 2025 nor for the year ended 31st March 2024.

Trustees' expenses

Trustees expenses of £78 (2024 : £104) were paid to 1 Trustee (2024: 1 Trustee) during the year ended 31 March 2025. These expenses were all reimbursements for travel costs.

7. STAFF COSTS

No employee received a salary at a rate of more than £70,655 per annum in the period.

The average numbers of staff during the year was 15 (2024 : 13).

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8.
COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
Unrestricted
Restricted
fund
fund
£
£
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM
Charitable activities
Sport England
-
609,502
Local Authority
-
120,919
Other public body
-
16,400
Non-public
3,990
62,500
Investment income
12,870
-
Total
16,860
809,321
EXPENDITURE ON
Charitable activities
Sport England
-
623,823
Local Authority
-
109,901
Other public body
-
31,306
Non-public
21,299
57,559
Total
21,299
822,589
NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)
(4,439)
(13,268)
Transfers between funds
(1,880)
1,880
Net movement in funds
(6,319)
(11,388)
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward
285,898
185,436
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD
279,579
174,048
9.
DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR
31.3.25
£
Trade debtors
25,589
Prepayments and accrued income
5,373
30,962		 Total
funds
£
609,502
120,919
16,400
66,490
12,870
826,181
623,823
109,901
31,306
78,858
843,888
(17,707)
-
(17,707)
471,334
453,627
31.3.24
£
61,211
4,489
65,700

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10. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR

Trade creditors
Other creditors
Accruals and deferred income		 31.3.25
£
17,720
-
20,986
38,706		 31.3.24
£
51,113
4,816
44,467
100,396

Deferred income consists of grant income that belongs to the next fiscal year. The balance of deferred income at the year end is £5,625 (2024: £17,153) which is attributable to Well-Being Walks and Move Well Work Well - Ways into Work.

11. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS

The fund balances are held for the following purposes:

General fund

Restricted funds

Transfers between funds

During the year £1,880 was transferred between unrestricted and restricted funds for the year ended 31 March 2025 (2024: £13,203).

of £NIL (2024: for both

12. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES

During the year, the charity made payments of £NIL (2024: £200) to the Berkshire Cricket Community Foundation as grants, where the Finance director for both entities is the same individual. There was an outstanding balance owed to Berkshire Cricket Community Foundation of £NIL at the year end (2024: £1,100).

13. ULTIMATE CONTROLLING PARTY

The operations of the charitable company are controlled by the Directors.

14. SHARE CAPITAL

The charitable company has no share capital, being limited by guarantee under the provisions of the Companies Act 2006.

15. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS

Restricted
funds
£		 General
funds
£		 Total
funds
£
Fund balances at 31 March 2025 are
represented by:-
Tangible fixed assets
Current assets
Current liabilities		 -
218,375
(38,706)
179,669		 -
272,808
-
£272,808		 -
491,183
(38,706)
£452,477

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DETAILED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2025

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INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS
Investment income
Bank interest received
Charitable activities
Grants/Commissioned projects
Total incoming resources
EXPENDITURE
Charitable activities
Programme delivery
Support costs
Management
Wages
Social security
Pensions
Rent
Travel
Insurance
Partnership meetings
Post, printing and stationery
IT and communications
Marketing
Computer and website costs
Other office costs
Payroll costs
Governance and Board meetings
Audit fee
Total resources expended
Net expenditure		 31.3.25
£
15,669
827,574
843,243
225,263
462,359
39,884
47,131
11,795
8,213
4,164
1,247
966
3,130
1,193
21,537
7,830
792
2,855
6,034
619,130
844,393
(1,150)		 31.3.24
£
12,870
813,311
826,181
297,306
409,840
32,711
41,066
12,185
6,024
3,211
2,044
561
3,402
4,668
15,914
4,681
756
3,489
6,030
546,582
843,888
(17,707)

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