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.

Objects

1)THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY: PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS; AND CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY THROUGH USING SPORT ACTIVITIES AND PARTICIPATORY MEDIA; AND 2) TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP YOUNG PEOPLE FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO ARE AT RISK OF BEING INVOLVED IN GANG CULTURE, ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND DRUG ABUSE AND HAVE LITTLE OPPORTUNITY FOR POSITIVE SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT THROUGH: (A) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; (B) PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

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

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with JOURNEY COMMUNITIES.

• JOURNEY COMMUNITIES income £107k
• JOURNEY ENTERPRISES LTD income £1.3m
• JARROW FOOTBALL CLUB income £194k
• THE JD FOUNDATION income £2.5m
• THE SCHOOL JOURNEY ASSOCIATION income £515k
• THE STREET SOCCER FOUNDATION income £291k

Side by side with its peers

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