FOOTBALL JOURNEYS

Registered charity 1152450 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LONDON FOOTBALL JOURNEYS (LFJ)

Football Journeys (FJ) is a UK charity that brings young people from diverse communities together to share new experiences, find common ground and break down prejudices. FJ uses football and participatory video as tools to facilitate leadership, skills development and integration.

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £9,797 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income of £193,671 against expenditure of £203,468. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £9,236, which is below the stated policy target of two months' running costs, though the trustees remain confident in the charity's 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 independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08436638

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Football Journeys (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.

• GRAVESANDE, Charlene Angelique — director, appointed 10/12/2024on trustee list
• MCCORMACK, Mark Anthony — director, appointed 10/12/2024on trustee list
• REEVES, Ian Joseph — director, appointed 08/11/2024on trustee list
• BLACKWOOD, Pablo — director, appointed 20/03/2024not on trustee list
• AMEVOR, Yasmin — director, appointed 13/12/2023on trustee list
• ALLEYNE, Rafael Douglas — director, appointed 13/10/2023on trustee list
• HOLMES, Christopher Paul — director, appointed 13/10/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Ian Reeveschair
• Charlene Gravesande
• Christopher Paul Holmes
• Leon Bates
• Mark McCormack
• Pablo Blackwood DL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rafael Alleyne
• Yasmin Amevor

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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