Sports Connections Foundation

Analysis

Sports Connections Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cambridgeshire. It was registered in January 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and amateur sport, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 07027448). It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Sports Connections Foundation reported income of £155k and spending of £186k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income fell from £289k to £155k (-47%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 60%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Sports Connections Foundation sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Stour Valley Vineyard Church (£154k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Andrews Church, Clevedon (£155k) and The Margery Maplethorpe Trust (£154k).

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.