Youth Sport Trust

Analysis

Youth Sport Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leicestershire. It was registered in June 2001, 25 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability and amateur sport, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04180163). It says it provides advocacy/advice/information and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Youth Sport Trust reported income of £12.2m and spending of £13.5m, spending 111% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £9.5m to £12.2m (+29%), an average of +6.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Youth Sport Trust sits at the 99th percentile: it is one of the largest 1% in its cause. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Azure Charitable Foundation (£12.1m), The Alchemy Foundation (£12.3m) and We Change Lives (WCL) (£12.0m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 87%, trading 6.9%, donations and legacies 3.0% and investments 2.6%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £23k. Charitable activities took 93% of spending and raising funds 4.0%. Reserves of £5.6m would cover about 5 months of spending at that rate. It employed 112 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.