THE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1079309 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5465837 · Wikipedia · also known as THE FOOTBALL TRUST CHARITABLE TRUST

The Charity's current and on-going activities are:to put in place a new generation of modern facilities in parks, local leagues and schools;to provide capital/revenue support to increase participation in grass roots football, andto strenghten the links between football and the community and to harness its potential as a force for good in society.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ALL PURPOSES RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES FROM TIME TO TIME IN PARTICULAR THROUGH AN ASSOCIATION WITH SPORT

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brent, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds amounted to £36.5m, which is significantly higher than the trustees' stated target of £3.0m. The trustees confirm that future funding from major partners is secured through at least March 2027, supporting a 'none' going concern status. The charity reports no fundraising activities, relying instead on donations from the Premier League, The FA, and the Government.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/05/2023 (received 09/04/2024, 9 days after the 31/03/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Robert Sullivan — CEO (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).

• Premier League — “We're the Premier League, The FA and Government’s charity.” (source page)
• The FA — “We're the Premier League, The FA and Government’s charity.” (source page)
• Government — “We're the Premier League, The FA and Government’s charity.” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (7,148 likes) · instagram (13K followers)

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Projects and Business Improvement Manager — £52,000 - £58,000 per annum dependant on relevant skills and experience. · Wembley (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 21/08/2026)
• Technical Project Manager — £42,000 - £50,000 per annum dependant on relevant skills and experience. · Remote · posted 1 month ago (seen 21/08/2026)
• Facilities Planning Manager — £40,000 - £46,000 per annum dependant on relevant skills and experience. · Remote · posted 4 weeks ago (seen 21/08/2026)
• Delivery Manager — £40,000 - £46,000 per annum dependant on relevant skills and experience. · Wembley (Hybrid) · posted 1 month ago (seen 21/08/2026)
• Support & Impact Manager (12-month FTC) — £40,000 - £46,000 per annum dependant on relevant skills and experience. · Remote · posted 1 month ago (seen 21/08/2026)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 2.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARTIN GLENNchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ama Agbeze
• Clare Sumner · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN DAVID PEARCE
• Karen Taylor
• Mark William Bullingham
• Richard Masters
• Simon Thomas Hayes
• Wais Shaifta

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 FULHAM FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION.

• FULHAM FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION income £2.9m
• THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE (COMMUNITY) LIMITED income £15.7m
• THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION BENEVOLENT FUND income £141k
• The National Football Trust income £12.0m
• MIDDLESEX SPORTS FOUNDATION income £66k
• LONG EATON UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED income £377k

Side by side with its peers

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