BRENTFORD FC COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST

Registered charity 1112784 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Brentford FC Community Sports Trust is an independent charity operating in partnership with Brentford Football Club and a range of other local, regional and national organisations. We use the power of sport and education to inspire people, raise the aspirations of our local community, develop community facilities, and to give local people the confidence and skills to reach their full potential.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE INHABITANTS OF MIDDLESEX AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS:-1. TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL AND OTHER SPORTS CAPABLE OF IMPROVING HEALTH ("FACILITIES" IN THIS CLAUSE MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES);2. TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR SPORT, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; AND3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF CHARITY.

Area of benefit: MIDDLESEX AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £0.2 million for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a deficit from the prior year, with total income increasing by 14.7% to £4.4 million. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £776,268, which is below the stated policy target of three months of operating expenses, providing only 2.2 months of coverage. The charity maintains strong cash balances and diversified funding streams to support its operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Just Audit & Assurance Ltd. 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05602833
• Trading subsidiary: BFCCST TRADING LIMITED Companies House 15828827

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ATHERTON, Graeme, Prof — director, appointed 25/09/2025on trustee list
• PRESTON, Iain George — director, appointed 21/04/2025on trustee list
• ABDOUL, Modi — director, appointed 21/04/2025on trustee list
• WRIGHT, Sharon, Dr — director, appointed 21/04/2025on trustee list
• RAJ, Nityajit Saidev — director, appointed 19/08/2022on trustee list
• PHELAN, Marcella Eileen — director, appointed 31/07/2019on trustee list
• GAMMON, Christopher John — director, appointed 20/03/2018on trustee list
• RALLI, Anita — director, appointed 01/09/2017on trustee list
• REYNOLDS, Karl Adrian — director, appointed 01/01/2015on trustee list
• KERR, Donald Gilbert — director, appointed 17/06/2010on trustee list
• CUDMORE, John Lawrence — director, appointed 25/10/2005on trustee list
• BURGESS, Brian Robert — director, appointed 25/10/2005on trustee list
• MONTAGUE, Jacqueline Clair — secretary, appointed 01/01/2011

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (86% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Prof Graeme Athertonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anita Ralli
• BRIAN ROBERT BURGESS
• CHRISTOPHER JOHN GAMMON
• DONALD GILBERT KERR
• Dr Sharon Wright
• Iain Preston
• JOHN LAWRENCE CUDMORE
• KARL ADRIAN REYNOLDS
• Marcella Eileen Phelan
• Modi Abdoul
• Nityajit Raj

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

Operates in: Ealing · Hillingdon · Hounslow · Richmond Upon Thames · Surrey · Windsor And Maidenhead

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LUTON TOWN FC COMMUNITY TRUST.

• LUTON TOWN FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £999k
• MACCLESFIELD FC COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST LTD income £186k
• NORWICH CITY COMMUNITY SPORTS FOUNDATION income £6.4m
• READING FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £2.4m
• BRADFORD CITY FC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £987k
• AFC BOURNEMOUTH COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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