DENISE COATES FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1149110 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q141190998 · also known as BET365 FOUNDATION

The Foundation's purpose is to distribute funds in support of local, national and international charitable activities, exclusively charitable according to the laws of England and Wales.

Objects

TO PROMOTE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION.

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Foundation holds total funds of £1,094.5m, comprising £1,077.7m in expendable endowment funds and £16.8m in unrestricted funds. The Trustees report that resources are adequate to meet liabilities for at least 12 months, and the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate. The charity generated significant incoming resources of £144.0m, primarily from donations and investment returns, while committing £16.7m to charitable activities.

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.

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.

• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

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).

• Denise Coates Foundation supports local students news.cision.com · 01/03/2023
• Bet365 CEO Denise Coates Foundation reduces charitable giving from £9m to £6m igamingbrazil.com · 05/01/2022
• Denise Coates Foundation donates £10m to NHS charity igamingbusiness.com · 07/04/2020
• Denise Coates Foundation donates £10 million to support Royal Stoke & County Hospital staff and patients stokesentinel.co.uk · 06/04/2020
• Readers praise Denise Coates Foundation after £10 million donation to hospital stokesentinel.co.uk · 06/04/2020

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08191619

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.

• ADAMS, Oliver Richard — director, appointed 19/11/2019on trustee list
• GALLETLEY, Simon Hugh — director, appointed 01/04/2014on trustee list
• WHITE, James Edward — director, appointed 01/04/2014on trustee list
• COATES, Peter — director, appointed 31/03/2014on trustee list
• COATES, Denise — director, appointed 24/08/2012on trustee list
• COATES, John Fitzgerald — director, appointed 24/08/2012on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 26/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 2.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN FITZGERALD COATESchair
• DENISE COATES
• JAMES EDWARD WHITE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Oliver Adams
• PETER COATES · trustee of 1 other charity
• SIMON HUGH GALLETLEY · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE DEBRA REISS FOUNDATION.

• THE DEBRA REISS FOUNDATION income £413k
• PROWTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £140k
• THE JOHN COATES CHARITABLE TRUST income £299k
• THE OAKGROVE FOUNDATION income £301k
• SHEILA COATES FOUNDATION income £1.7m
• MARGARET DAVIES CHARITY income £275k

Side by side with its peers

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