THE MIKE GOOLEY TRAILFINDERS CHARITY

Registered charity 1048993 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE MIKE GOOLEY TRAILFINDER FUND

Donations are confined to the benefit of citizens of Great Britain only. Medical research, sport and organised children activities, military veterans, and local community projects are favoured.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Amateur Sport · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£13.2m

Latest spending

£8.4m

Registered

1995

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £33,526,619, with free reserves standing at £4,370,581. The charity relies almost exclusively on donations from Trailfinders Limited, a related party, and incurs no fundraising costs. The trustees confirm adequate resources for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Trailfinders Limited (98% of income)

“Income generation derives almost exclusively from donations made by Trailfinders Limited, an entity wholly owned by the Executive Chairman Sir M D W Gooley, C.B.E, who is also the Founder Trustee of the Charity.” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Total income

£13.2m

Total spending

£8.4m

Reserves (reported)

£4.4m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~6.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

MICHAEL DAVID WILLIAM GOOLEYchair
BERNADETTE MARY GOOLEY
John Christopher O'Dowd
Siobhan Hilary Eila Machin
TRISTAN GOOLEY

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/06/2025	£13.2m	£8.4m
30/06/2024	£4.7m	£4.3m
30/06/2023	£8.2m	£5.5m
30/06/2022	£8.1m	£6.5m
30/06/2021	£6.2m	£4.0m

Common questions

Is THE MIKE GOOLEY TRAILFINDERS CHARITY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £33,526,619, with free reserves standing at £4,370,581. The charity relies almost exclusively on donations from Trailfinders Limited, a related party, and incurs no fundraising costs. The trustees confirm adequate resources for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
BREAKTHROUGH FOUNDATION	1	£2.0m
IMPETUS - THE PRIVATE EQUITY FOUNDATION	1	£294k
THE MURIEL AND GERSHON COREN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£100k
B K CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£72k
THE JMCMRJ SORRELL FOUNDATION	1	£50k
BETTENHURST CHARITY LIMITED	1	£31k
THE VIVIENNE AND SAMUEL COHEN CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£14k
The Marks Family Charitable Trust	1	£12k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GOFUNDME.ORG.UK.

GOFUNDME.ORG.UK income £227k
UK GIVES LTD income £1.5m
PRESTON NORTH END COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION TRUST income £1.8m
TAFF BARGOED DEVELOPMENT TRUST LIMITED income £152k
THE CHILD HEALTH RESEARCH CIO income £339k
SOUTH MANCHESTER SPORTS CLUB LIMITED income £113k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE MIKE GOOLEY TRAILFINDERS CHARITY	£13.2m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
GOFUNDME.ORG.UK FY2025	£227k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
UK GIVES LTD FY2025	£1.5m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
PRESTON NORTH END COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION TRUST FY2025	£1.8m	£60,001 - £70,000	1	above	—	no doubt
TAFF BARGOED DEVELOPMENT TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£152k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE CHILD HEALTH RESEARCH CIO FY2025	£339k	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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