## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
**From**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 2nd May 2025 **To** 1st May 2026
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
Power Up To Play
**Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1182851
(previously called SKIPP)
**Charity's principal address** Oxford Knee Group, Manor Hospital,
Beech Road, Headington Oxford **Postcode OX3 7RP**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
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||Nicholas Bottomley||||
||William Jackson||||
||Kate Jackson||||
||Tom Jacobs||||
||Stefan Kluzek||||
||Julia Newton||||
||Andrew Price||||
||Nev Davies||||
||Jon Room||||
||Paul Miller||||
||Morgan Bailey||from July2025||
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution adopted April 2019
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods Appointed by a resolution passed at a properly convened (eg. appointed by, elected by) meeting of the charity trustees.
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
To reduce major knee injuries in young people playing non-professional sport. This will be achieved by training and educating coaches of sports clubs in high-risk sports (sports involving jumping/landing and cutting/change of direction) to use preventative warm-up strategies.
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|**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken**
**for the public benefit in**
**relation to these**
**objects (include within**
**this section the**
**statutory declaration**
**that trustees have had**
**regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public**
**benefit)**|With the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit in mind,
we have maintained and updated the free educational website for
coaches, parents and players. This website provides guidance on
how to reduce serious knee injuries through using an easy,
structured warm-up which reduces ACL ruptures by 50% in young
sportspeople. A video of the PEP injury prevention warm-up shows
the exercises individually with guidance on good knee positioning.
Where sports have sport-specific warm-ups we signpost coaches,
parents and players to their specific sports injury prevention advice.
If coaches would like to attend a face-to-face training session there
is an online booking facility.
We have continued to expand the initiative nationally during the
past year by working to steadily increase the network of national
ambassadors/trainers. We now have over 230 ambassadors. The
Power Up To Play ambassadors are medical or allied professionals
who support the initiative through their professional work discussing
the importance of injury prevention strategies with young people
and parents. Through ambassadors we have been able to offer
free, face-to-face training for grassroots sports coaches in different
locations across the UK.
We continue to work with key stakeholders in the area of ACL injury
prevention in the UK to form a well-represented strategic group. The group
meets regularly to discuss current injury prevention activity and future
opportunities to permanently embed injury prevention in grassroot sport in
the UK.
Power Up to Play continue their collaboration with King's College London
and our joint PhD student is in her second year researching the challenges
of implementing a national injury prevention programme in the UK.
We also take opportunities to raise the profile of the initiative by
attending conferences and using social media to help generate
interest and awareness of the work of Power up to Play.|
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## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and performance
Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year
## **Website**
Maintaining and updating our website http://www.poweruptoplay.org/ This year a sub-committee of trustees were charged with updating the charity website. Their first action was updating the homepage to make it more impactful with a call to arms: **'Together We Can Reduce Injuries in Youth Sport'** which emphasises the shared responsibility of coach, parent, player and supporting staff such as medical professionals.
## **New Ambassadors:**
Our initiative is now firmly nationwide with ambassadors in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. 'Ambassador' is the term we use for medical and allied health professionals who support us in their clinics discussing the initiative with their patients and/or organise their own faceto-face coach training in their areas.
We continue to attract new support from medical professionals wanting to support the initiative. This year we have new ambassadors in South Wales, Dumfries and Galloway, Edinburgh, Durham, Northumberland, Yorkshire, Cumbria, West Sussex, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Birmingham, Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Kent and London
## **Coach education and training events:**
## **Face-to-face coach training sessions**
We continued to provide interactive coach training in Oxfordshire, Yorkshire, Northumberland, Liverpool, south Wales, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Kent. At these sessions coaches are given a short but informative educational presentation followed by a practical session of practising the warm-up understanding good knee positioning to prevent injury.
## **Coach certification**
The PUTP/FA Wales online injury prevention module for coaches is now in its second year. This is an optional coaching module at present. The Head of Medical has committed to mandating the injury prevention module for coaching badges. https://faw.cymru/preventing-acl-injuries/
## **Educational Events for Health Professionals:**
## **Conferences and Meetings**
- King's College Arthritis meeting for researchers and clinicians. May 2025
- • King's College Arthritis meeting May 2025 • Spire Webinar for physiotherapists May 26 • BOA Legacy Event, Liverpool Sept 2025 • AOTCP session at BOA Sept 25 • PUTP Lower Limb Symposium Nov 2025 • Sports Knee meeting Nov 25 • Orthopaedic meeting on ACL injuries, Barcelona. Nov 25 • ECOSEP 9th Congress, Prevention of sports injuries in adolescence Nov 25
- • BOSSTA conference, Manchester, Nov 26 • Doctors' Updates, France, Jan 26
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Section D Achievements and performance
|•|Imperial Sports Knee Meeting Jan 26||
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|**Teaching**|||
|•|Teaching on the Injury prevention module for the University||
||College London MSc in Sport and Exercise Medicine||
|•|Teaching on the Injury prevention teaching session for|UCL MSc|
||in Advanced Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy||
|**Research and Publications:**|||
|•|**King's College London/PUTP collaboration**||
||PhD student Thanusha Vee is in the 2nd year of her PhD||
||researching current perceptions of injury prevention warm-up||
||programmes amongst coaches in the UK as well as facilitators||
||and barriers for coaches and players||
|•|**Rethinking ACL Injury Prevention: Why the Next Phase Must**||
||**Look Different**. Super JT, Spalding T, Jackson K, Jackson W,||
||Bowditch M, Bailey M, Haddad FS, Murray IR. The Bone and||
||Joint Journal. April 2026||
|•|**Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury Prevention – Who is**||
||**responsible for implementation and what are the challenges?**||
||Super JT, Spalding T, Jackson K, Bailey M, Jackson W, Bowditch||
||M, LaPrade RF, Haddad FS, Murray IR. Bone and Joint Surgery||
||Open. April 2026||
|**Raising the Profile: Media, marketing and communications**|||
|•|**Social media ambassador**- one of our ambassadors has||
||experience of managing SM for a charity and has encouraged||
||and guided us to use SM more effectively through regular posting.||
|•|**PUTP posters**. We redesigned and printed PUTP posters with a||
||trackable QR code to the warm-up. These posters have been put||
||in orthopaedic and sports injury clinic waiting rooms where||
||players or parents may be waiting for appointments.||
|•|**'Celebrity Ambassador'**- this year we were delighted|to|
||welcome Amy Carter, netball player and doctor, as an||
||ambassador for PUTP. She has been using her social media||
||profile to successfully raise awareness in the grassroot|netball|
||community.||
|**PUTP Collaborations**|||
|•|Oxford United in the Community (charity outreach arm)|and|
||Oxfordshire FA||
|•|King's College London - joint PhD student (see above)||
|•|Arthritis Action - joint grant application with PUTP for a pilot study||
||in Greater Manchester. Aim of pilot study is to roll out regular||
||coach training sessions in the region with analysis of pre-training||
||and post-training questionnaires (immediate and 3 months) to||
||examine understanding and behaviour change||
||https://www.arthritisaction.org.uk/||
|•|South Wales strategy group - health boards along the 'M4||
||corridor' are collaboratingwith PUTP toprovide regular|training|
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## Section D Achievements and performance
sessions for coaches in the south of Wales.
- This Girl Does Sport - initiative to support all aspects of girls' participation in sport https://www.thisgirldoessport.com/. Have hosted joint educational events with PUTP in the SW of England.
- • HerACLjourney - initiative to support girls and women who have sustained ACL injuries through provision of advice regarding rehabilitation, surgery, post-surgery. Considering both physical and psychological impact. Collaborate to signpost to PUTP injury prevention following return to sport.
- ▪ ACL Injury Prevention National Strategy Collaborative - monthly meeting aimed at lobbying government and NGBs
## **Recognition from National Medical Bodies:**
- British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK);
- British Association of Orthopaedics (BOA),
- Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (FSEM),
- British Society for Children's Orthopaedic Surgery (BSCOS),
- • British Orthopaedic Sports Trauma and Arthroscopy Association (BOSTAA),
- The Society of Sports Therapists (SST)
**Partnerships:**
- Physiolab - commercial arrangement funding the charity per returned kit; signed in Q1; proceeds expected in coming weeks.
## **Awards:**
- **BOA Presidential Award** Power Up to Play were honoured this year to be the recipient of the BOA Presidential Award in recognition of the charity's efforts to reduce the burden of serious knee injuries in youth sport.
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## **Section E Financial review**
We do not have a formal policy on reserves.
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially** N/A **in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
We have continued to receive financial support from the Mushroom Fund which You **may choose** to include has allowed us to fund our website and running costs of the charity. additional information, where relevant about:
Our expenditure is supporting the charity objectives through provision of a free educational website, raising awareness and delivering face-to-face training events.
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
We have kept within our budget and are providing a national service at low cost. Although we have no formal policy on reserves, should our main source of funding cease we currently have sufficient funds to continue the charity's work for 18-24 months at current expenditure.
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** William Jackson **Full name(s)** Katherine Jackson **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee Trustee **etc) Date** 18/5/26
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**Charity Name**|
**Charity Name**|
**Charity Name**|
**Charity Name**|**CC16a**|
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**from**|Period start date
01/05/2025|**To**
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**3 000**
**160**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3 160**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3 160**
**706**
**133**
**38**
**48**
**181**
**140**
**643**
**178**
**45**
**149**
**517**
**218**
**-**
**2 996**
**-**
**-**
**164**
**-**
**6 221**
**6 385**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|MUSHROOM FUND|**3 000**|||**3 000**
**160**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3 160**|**-**|
|JUST GIVING|**160**||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**3 160**||||**-**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||
|||||**3 160**|**-**|
|||||**706**
**133**
**38**
**48**
181||
|WEBSITE|**706**||||**-**|
|GOOGLE EMAIL|**133**||||**-**|
|SSL CERTIFICATE RENEWAL|**38**||||**-**|
|WEBSITE DOMAIN RENEWAL|**48**|||||
|MAILCHIMP|**181**|||||
|QR PLANET TRACKABLE QR CODES|**140**|||**140**
**643**
**178**
**45**
**149**
**517**
**218**
**-**
**2 996**||
|T-SHIRTS|**643**|||||
|INSTANTPRINT|**178**|||||
|OFFICE SUPPLIES (ENVELOPES,
PACKING TAPE)|**45**|||||
|POSTAGE COSTS|**149**||||**-**|
|CONFERENCE AND TRAVEL
EXPENSES|**517**||||**-**|
|TRUSTEE MEETING EXPENSES|**218**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**2 996**||||**-**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||
||**-**|||**-**
**-**
**164**||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**164**||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||
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**6 221**|**-**|
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||**6 385**|||**6 385**|**-**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6 385**
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Agreement Error
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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|||W F M JACKSON|**13/05/2026**|
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