Trustees’ Annual Report
Royal Berkshire Squash Rackets Association Charity Number: 1202022 Financial Year: 1 June 2024 – 31 May 2025
1. Structure, Governance and Management
The Royal Berkshire Squash Rackets Association is a registered charity governed by its constitution. The trustees are responsible for the overall management and control of the charity and meet periodically to review activities, finances, and strategy.
The charity maintains a number of governance policies, including safeguarding, complaints handling, risk management, trustee expenses, and conflicts of interest policies. During the year, safeguarding procedures remained a priority, with appropriate DBS checks obtained for all relevant roles.
Some policies (including financial controls and reserves policy) remain under development and will be reviewed in the forthcoming period.
2. Objectives and Activities
The charity exists to promote and support squash and racket sports within the Royal Berkshire area, including encouraging participation, supporting players, and enabling access to facilities and competitions.
The charity delivers its objectives primarily through organising activities, supporting individuals and organisations involved in the sport, and making grants where appropriate.
Grant-making is not the charity’s primary activity but forms part of how it delivers its objectives.
3. Activities and Achievements
During the financial year, the charity continued to support squash activity within the region. This included:
Supporting individuals participating in squash activities
Providing funding to organisations involved in delivery of the sport
Maintaining engagement with local squash communities
The charity worked with a small number of volunteers (approximately 5) who contributed to delivering its activities.
The trustees note that demand for services remains positive and the charity continues to have the capacity to deliver its activities.
4. Financial Review
The charity reported:
Total income: £9,714
Total expenditure: £30,032
Income was generated from:
Donations and legacies: £5,374
Charitable activities: £4,340
Expenditure included:
Grants to individuals: £4,530
Grants to organisations: £15,274
The charity recorded expenditure exceeding income during the year. Trustees are aware of this and will continue to monitor financial sustainability closely.
No income was received from government contracts or grants, and no income or expenditure occurred outside the UK.
5. Reserves Policy
The charity does not currently have a formal reserves policy in place. Trustees recognise the importance of this and intend to formalise a reserves approach in the next financial period.
6. Risk Management
The trustees have implemented an internal risk management approach and regularly review key risks facing the charity.
Key areas of focus include:
Financial sustainability
Safeguarding
Operational delivery capacity
7. Safeguarding
The charity provides services to children and/or adults at risk and takes safeguarding seriously.
During the year:
Appropriate safeguarding policies were in place
Standard, enhanced, and barred list DBS checks were obtained where required
8. Staffing
The charity had:
No employees
One self-employed individual supporting activities
The charity is primarily volunteer-led.
9. Plans for the Future
The trustees aim to:
Continue promoting squash participation within the region
Strengthen financial sustainability
Formalise governance policies (including reserves and financial controls)
Maintain and improve safeguarding and operational standards
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Charity Commission Annual Return 2025
ROYAL BERKSHIRE SQUASH RACKETS ASSOCIATION Charity registration number: 1202022
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This document is a record of the information provided in the Annual Return 2025.
PART A - Charity information
Financial period
Financial period start date 01/06/2024
Financial period end date 31/05/2025
Income and spending
Income £
£ 9,714
Spending £ £ 30,032
Number of contracts from government
How many contracts (other than grant agreements) did your charity receive from central government or a local authority during the financial period for this return?
0
Number of grants from government
How many grants did your charity receive from central government or a local authority during the financial period for this return?
0
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Income breakdown
Donations and legacies (excluding Endowments Received)
£ 5,374
Charitable activities
£ 4,340
Other trading activities
£ 0
Investments
£ 0
Other
£ 0
Grantmaking
Is grant making the main way your charity carries out its purposes?
No
Recipients of grants
Please round all figures to the nearest pound (do not enter decimal points or commas). Individuals
£ 4,530
Other charities
£ 0
Other organisations that are not charities
£ 15,274
Grant recipients related parties
Are any of the grant recipients related parties to the charity?
Yes
Trustee payments
Excluding out of pocket expenses, for what were any of the trustees paid during the financial period for this return?
⊠ c. Paid for providing goods and/or services to the charity or any of its trading subsidiaries or connected organisations
Did any of the trustees resign and take up employment with your charity in the financial period of this return?
No
Income from outside the UK
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Did your charity receive income from outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return? No
Delivering activities outside the United Kingdom
Did your charity deliver charitable activities outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return? No
Spending outside of the United Kingdom
Did your charity spend funds outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return?
No
Total Spending outside of the United Kingdom
£
Trading subsidiaries
Does the charity have any trading subsidiaries?
No
Employment contract types
People were permanently employed by your charity
0
People were on fxed-terms contracts with your charity 0
Self-employed people were working for your charity
1
Total overseas employees
How many of the people above work on behalf of your charity outside of the United Kingdom?
0
Total employee payroll
What was the total amount spent on employee payroll during the financial period relating to this return?
£ 0
Employees' salaries
Did any of your charity's employees receive total employment benefits of £60,000 or more in the financial period of this annual return?
No
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Governance policies
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
No
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Yes
Financial reserves policy and procedures
No
Complaints policy and procedures
Yes
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
No
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Yes
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Yes
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Yes
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Not applicable
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Not applicable
Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
No
Social media policy and procedures
No
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
No
Safeguarding
Has your charity provided services to children and/or adults at risk in the financial period of the return?
Yes
a. Standard DBS checks have been obtained for all eligible roles Yes
b. Enhanced DBS checks have been obtained for all eligible roles
Yes
c. Enhanced with Barred List(s) DBS checks have been obtained for all eligible roles
Yes
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External risk and impact
Donations
No impact
Other income - grants
Unknown
Other income - contracts
Not applicable
Other income - investment
Not applicable
Expenditure on charitable activities
Unknown
Expenditure on overheads
Negative
Number of volunteers
Negative
Number of employees
Not applicable
Number of trustees
Negative
Fundraising activities
No impact
Capacity to deliver services
Positive
Total service demand
Positive
Volunteers
Excluding trustees, provide an estimate of the number of volunteers who carried out charitable activities on behalf of your charity in the United Kingdom during the financial period of this return?
5
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