MARYLEBONE CRICKET CLUB FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1019171 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MCC FOUNDATION · also registered in Scotland as SC050127 (OSCR)

Provides free cricket coaching and match play for state-educated children aged 11-15 across the UK, opportunities through cricket to people living in the London Borough of Westminster, and opportunities through cricket to communities overseas.

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £2,650,111 against total expenditure of £2,385,798, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,328,069 and cash of £1,789,712, with a stated reserves policy requiring a contingency reserve target of £958,000. The trustees confirm the charity is in a strong financial position with sufficient funds to continue operations for at least 12 months.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

What the charity says about itself (2025)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Angus Berry — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Dr Sarah Fane OBE — Executive Director (source)
• Suse Harrison — Finance Director (source)
• Vicky Lowe — Director of Programmes and Operations (source)
• Poppy Reindorp — Development Director (source)
• Amey Bonsor — Interim Development Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Garfield Weston Foundation — “secured significant funding from renowned foundations including Garfield Weston, National Lottery Community Fund and Esmee Fairbairn Foundat…” (source page)
• National Lottery Community Fund — “secured significant funding from renowned foundations including Garfield Weston, National Lottery Community Fund and Esmee Fairbairn Foundat…” (source page)
• Esmee Fairbairn Foundation — “secured significant funding from renowned foundations including Garfield Weston, National Lottery Community Fund and Esmee Fairbairn Foundat…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 17.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/01/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• AUSTIN PHILIP MARSDENchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charlotte Appleyard
• Christopher Rogers
• Clare Joanne Connor
• James Benjamin Henry Geffen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jeremy Townsend
• Mehmooda Duke
• Rohan Kapadia
• Sharjeel Suleman

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Kenya · Lebanon · Nepal · Rwanda · Scotland · South Africa · Sri Lanka · Throughout England And Wales · Uganda

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BERKSHIRE CRICKET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• BERKSHIRE CRICKET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.4m
• THE WARWICKSHIRE CRICKET FOUNDATION income £1.6m
• LONDON SCHOOLS' CRICKET ASSOCIATION income £154k
• ENGLAND AND WALES CRICKET TRUST income £41.7m
• THE SURREY CRICKET BOARD income £2.6m
• CAPITAL KIDS CRICKET income £470k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.