HUDDERSFIELD TOWN FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1146501 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BLUE & WHITE FOUNDATION, HUDDERSFIELD TOWN FOUNDATION LIMITED

to advance in life and help young people through the provision of recreational and leisure time activities provided in the interest of social welfare, designed to improve their conditions of life and provide support and activities which develop their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals.

Objects

3. Objects3.1 The Charity's objects (Objects) are for the benefit of the public generally, both in the United Kingdom and overseas and, in particular, the inhabitants of Kirklees and Calderdale, West Yorkshire and its surrounding areas:3.1.1 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);3.1.2 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 welfare and with the object of improving their conditions of life;3.1.3 to advance the education of the general public through such means as the Trustees think fit in accordance with charity law;3.1.4 to advance in life, and help, people through: 3.1.4.1 the provision of recreational and leisure time activities provided in the interest of social welfare, designed to improve their conditions of life: and 3.1.4.2 providing support and activities which develop their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature responsible individuals; 3.1.5 to help people, especially but not exclusively through leisure time activities so as to develop their capabilities that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society; 3.1.6 to assist in the relief of sickness and the preservation of health among people; 3.1.7 to assist in the relief of financial hardship, either general or individually, of people by making grants of money for providing or paying for items, services or facilities; and3.1.8 for such other charitable objects for the benefit of the public as the Trustees in their absolute discretion may determine.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a net loss of £43,818 for the year ended 31 August 2025, primarily due to significant cost pressures from mandatory wage increases and inflation. However, the trustees report that after the release of restricted reserves, the underlying performance resulted in a small surplus, and the charity maintains a strong balance sheet with unrestricted reserves significantly exceeding its policy target.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HLAS Audit Limited. 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.

• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Huddersfield Town Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sam Dainty — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Suzy Brain England OBE — Chair of the Board of Trustees (source)
• Jill Stacey — Head of Operations (source)
• Louise Teasdale — Head of Governance and Business Support (source)
• Beth Cook — Head of Impact and Development (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 Charitable Fund — “We receive a range of funding from a variety of organisations including the the Premier League Charitable Fund, the PFA and EFL in the Commu…” (source page)
• PFA — “We receive a range of funding from a variety of organisations including the the Premier League Charitable Fund, the PFA and EFL in the Commu…” (source page)
• EFL in the Community — “We receive a range of funding from a variety of organisations including the the Premier League Charitable Fund, the PFA and EFL in the Commu…” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~10.9 months of spending — in the top quarter 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: 1.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carl Andrew · trustee of 1 other charity
• Claire Bennett
• David Threlfall-Sykes
• Jane Totten
• Richard Hoyle
• Robyn Kennerdale
• Suzy Maria Brain England

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

Operates in: Calderdale · Kirklees

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HUDDERSFIELD MISSION.

• HUDDERSFIELD MISSION income £547k
• HUDDERSFIELD WHARFESIDE YOUTH TRUST income £37k
• ACTIVITEENS income £144k
• THE FURZEDOWN YOUTH CENTRE LTD income £45k
• CENTRAL YOUTH CLUB HUDDERSFIELD income £63k
• THE WELCOME CENTRE (HUDDERSFIELD) income £900k

Side by side with its peers

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