THE PLAYERS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1150458 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLERS' ASSOCIATION CHARITY

To advance the education of beneficiaries. To promote good health amongst beneficiaries.The relief of such beneficiaries and their dependants who are in conditions of need, hardship, and distress and find themselves in necessitous circumstances.To support and promote community participation and healthy recreation.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £381,952 for the year, driven by significant net gains on investments of £792,733. Total unrestricted reserves stood at £51.79 million, with a designated fund of £904,687 established to adhere to the trustees' policy of maintaining the asset base to generate sufficient income. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Charity Commission inquiry

Regulator actions

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Gareth Farrelly — Chair (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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (99% 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: 34.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/02/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/02/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Susan Hallard
• Gareth Farrelly
• Harpreet Robertson
• Martin Prothero
• Robert Clare

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MIDDLESBROUGH FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION.

• MIDDLESBROUGH FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION income £2.6m
• THE PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ASSOCIATION BENEVOLENT FUND income £154k
• SPORTING FOUNDATION income £329k
• GLOBAL RUGBY PLAYERS' FOUNDATION income £979k
• WEST HAM UNITED FOUNDATION income £3.9m
• CLUB DONCASTER COMMUNITY SPORTS & EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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