WEST HAM UNITED FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1114458 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WEST HAM UNITED COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST, WEST HAM UNITED IN THE COMMUNITY

To promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for the playing of football and other sports capable of improving health.To provide facilities for sport of such persons who have need by reason of their age, infirmity or disablement, social and economic, in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving their conditions of life.

Objects

The Charity’s objects (Objects) are for the benefit of the public generally in the United Kingdom and overseas and, in particular, the inhabitants of London 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 Article 3 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 the public and in particular children and young people through such means as the trustees think fit in accordance with the law of charity; and4. for such other wholly charitable purposes for the public benefit under the laws of England and Wales as the Trustees may from time to time determine.

Area of benefit: LONDON 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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £56,255 for the year ended 31 May 2025, resulting in total net assets of £507,484. The Trustees maintain that unrestricted reserves are within the stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure, noting that the ideal reserve level is between £200,000 and £500,000. The going concern basis is supported by the charity's reliance on grant funding and continued financial support from West Ham United Football Club Limited.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by F Winter & Co 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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
• 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.

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 31/05/2022 (received 18/05/2023, 48 days after the 31/03/2023 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• West Ham United Foundation join the Prime Minister at No10 celebrating 20 years of Premier League Kicks whufc.com · 25/03/2026
• Pakistan Street Child football team takes on West Ham United Foundation team in first UK fixture london-post.co.uk · 13/08/2025

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05731045

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — West Ham United Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• BORQUAYE, Isaac Charles Bortey — director, appointed 23/05/2025not on trustee list
• JALLOH, Fatima Tebah Adama — director, appointed 28/11/2024not on trustee list
• ZIA, Emaan — director, appointed 28/11/2024not on trustee list
• HAYES, Jeffrey Christopher — director, appointed 19/12/2019on trustee list
• FERDINAND, Jackie Lorraine — director, appointed 16/03/2018on trustee list
• BRANDMAN, Henri — director, appointed 14/12/2015on trustee list
• CROOK, Jeremy Ian — director, appointed 05/03/2014on trustee list
• GABRIEL, Marie Sylvia, Dame — director, appointed 23/01/2013on trustee list
• MOLLETT, Andrew John — director, appointed 23/01/2013not on trustee list
• MOLLETT, Andrew John — secretary, appointed 23/01/2013

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (67% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDY MOLLETTchair
• Henri Brandman
• JEREMY CROOK
• Jackie Ferdinand
• Jeffrey Hayes · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARIE GABRIEL · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Essex · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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
• WEST WARWICKSHIRE SPORTS COMPLEX LTD income £383k
• MANCHESTER UNITED FOUNDATION income £8.7m
• HARTLEPOOL UNITED COMMUNITY SPORTS FOUNDATION income £199k
• UNITED THROUGH SPORT income £125k
• MAIDENHEAD UNITED FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £394k

Side by side with its peers

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