Stoke City Foundation

Registered charity 1104006 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STOKE CITY COMMUNITY TRUST, STOKE CITY FOOTBALL IN THE COMMUNITY

The charaties activities included The Schools Programme (in curriculum time), After Schools Coaching, Soccer Schools, Birthday Treats, Sponsored Penalty Shoot Outs, Match Day Activities, GirlÔÇÖs and WomenÔÇÖs Football, Saturday and Sunday Clubs, Disability Centre and Tours of the Ground.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,217,559, representing 20 months of unrestricted staff employment costs against a policy target of 12 months. The charity reported a net deficit of £766 for the year, with total income of £1,722,696 and total expenditure of £1,723,462. The trustees confirmed that adequate resources exist to meet liabilities for at least one year, and the auditors identified no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,000 - £79,999 (FY2024) to £80,000 - £89,999 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Stoke City Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Iwelumo
• DENIS SMITH
• David Thomas Heath
• GARY MELLOR
• John Coates
• Josepha Morris
• Simon King

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Staffordshire

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 ASTON VILLA FOUNDATION.

• ASTON VILLA FOUNDATION income £2.9m
• TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR FOUNDATION income £3.2m
• Swindon Town FC Community Foundation income £1.4m
• HARTLEPOOL UNITED COMMUNITY SPORTS FOUNDATION income £199k
• MANCHESTER UNITED FOUNDATION income £8.7m
• THE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION income £128.2m

Side by side with its peers

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