WORCESTER WARRIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1133136 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Worcester Warriors Foundation

Grassroots sports development, club development for junior sports clubs, promoting good health, educational schemes and social inclusion

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY AND IN PARTICULAR THE INHABITANTS OF WORCESTER, WORCESTERSHIRE AND THE WEST MIDLANDS.1 TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF RUGBY UNION AND OTHER SPORTS CAPABLE OF IMPROVING HEALTH (FACILITIES IN THIS CLAUSE MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES2 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF CHARITY3 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, PRIVATE OR RACIAL 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

Area of benefit: WORCESTER, WORCESTERSHIRE AND THE WEST MIDLANDS

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 · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Worcester, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£217k
Latest spending
£269k
Registered
2009
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £51,045, reducing its total reserves from £344,198 to £293,153. The Trustees consider free reserves of £190,664 to be sufficient to meet requirements for the next 12 months, equating to 8.5 months of total expenditure. The charity confirmed it has adequate resources to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: 8.5 months total expenditure (reserves figure: £191k)
“This equates to 8.5 months total expenditure (2024 10.3 months) based on current expenditure levels.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/05/2025

  • Volunteers: 10
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/05/2024

  • Volunteers: 10
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/05/2023

  • Volunteers: 6
  • Government income: £3,330 — grants £3,330 (6); 1% of the £255,056 total gross income on the same return

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Warriors Community Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Coventry City · Dudley · Herefordshire · Staffordshire · Warwickshire · Worcestershire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/05/2025£217k£269k
31/05/2024£294k£252k
31/05/2023£255k£242k
31/05/2022£342k£220k
31/05/2021£212k£181k

Common questions

Is WORCESTER WARRIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £51,045, reducing its total reserves from £344,198 to £293,153. The Trustees consider free reserves of £190,664 to be sufficient to meet requirements for the next 12 months, equating to 8.5 months of total expenditure. The charity confirmed it has adequate resources to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds WORCESTER WARRIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name WORCESTER WARRIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include SPORTS PARTNERSHIP HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE, THE BRANSFORD TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
SPORTS PARTNERSHIP HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIREFY2023£10kGrants to institutions
THE BRANSFORD TRUSTFY2025£10k
SPORTS PARTNERSHIP HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIREFY2024amount not stated

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund27/11/2025£390kWorcester Warriors Foundation
The National Lottery Community Fund28/09/2023£180kWorcester Warriors Foundation
The National Lottery Community Fund18/03/2021£180kWarriors Community Foundation
Sport England26/05/2020£5kCOVID-19 CEF
Sport England11/02/2015£10kWarriors
The National Lottery Community Fund28/11/2013£10kLeading for Life

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE MICHAEL MARSH CHARITABLE TRUST1£3k
GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUST1£3k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WEST WARWICKSHIRE SPORTS COMPLEX LTD.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
WORCESTER WARRIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION£217k—0unclear—no doubt
WEST WARWICKSHIRE SPORTS COMPLEX LTD FY2025£383k—0above—no doubt
WOODFORD WAR MEMORIAL COMMUNITY CENTRE FY2025£125k—0above—no doubt
WARRINGTON VOLUNTARY ACTION FY2025£987k—0unclear—no doubt
WATFORD FC'S COMMUNITY SPORTS & EDUCATION TRUST FY2025£3.0m—0unclear—no doubt
WORCESTERSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LIMITED FY2025£379k—0within—no doubt

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