AFC WIMBLEDON FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1154198 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Foundation's activities focus on four main pillars which are: social inclusion; Sports participation; Education; and Health. In our first year we have emphasised sporting activities for young people, mainly in the Borough of Merton. However, activities were expanding to include older people (walking football), opportunities for female involvement and children with learning difficulties.

Objects

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 THE LONDON BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES, THE LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS:3.1 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);3.2 TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY (SOCIALLY EXCLUDED IN THIS ARTICLE 3 MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS); CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY);3.3 TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND TO PRESERVE AND PROMOTE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH SPORT, EDUCATION AND SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT;3.4 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND OTHER PERSONS (INCLUDING ACADEMIC, SOCIAL, TECHNICAL SKILLS AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION) THROUGH SPORT AND SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT; AND3.5 FOR THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES OR FOR SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN EACH CASE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS AND, IN PARTICULAR THE INHABITANTS OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES, THE LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS

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 · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 24.9% to £1,032,217, resulting in a net surplus of £116,110 for the year. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £286,000, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of three months of staffing costs (£172,000). The auditor confirmed that the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08632521

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — AFC Wimbledon Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jenny Scott — 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.

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.

• KILBURN, Paul Michael — director, appointed 22/06/2026not on trustee list
• SHAPLAND, Claire Marie — director, appointed 16/03/2026on trustee list
• BURNHAM-MARSHALLECK, Ashley Reece — director, appointed 16/03/2026on trustee list
• KITCHER, Hannah Elizabeth — director, appointed 07/10/2024on trustee list
• GARDINER, Daniel William — director, appointed 19/06/2023on trustee list
• LITTLE, Michele Marie — director, appointed 30/09/2022on trustee list
• BARCLAY, Claire — director, appointed 30/09/2022on trustee list
• LONSDALE, Elizabeth Jane — director, appointed 30/09/2022on trustee list
• SEKERAM, Mohan Sivagnana, Dr — director, appointed 30/09/2022on trustee list
• AVES, Peter Nicholas — director, appointed 14/03/2022on trustee list
• SCOTT, Jennifer Anne — director, appointed 21/06/2021on trustee list
• MITCHELL, Alexander Thomas — director, appointed 25/11/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (75% 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: 12.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Thomas Mitchell
• Ashley Burnham-Marshalleck
• Claire Barclay
• Claire Shapland
• Daniel Gardiner
• Dr Mohan Sekeram
• Hannah Kitcher
• Jane Lonsdale
• Jennifer Anne Scott · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michele Marie Little · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Kilburn
• Peter Aves

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

Operates in: Kingston Upon Thames · Merton · Wandsworth

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

• THE WIMBLEDON FOUNDATION income £4.6m
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• BIRMINGHAM CITY FC FOUNDATION income £1.8m
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• THE WIMBLEDON SOCIETY income £48k
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Side by side with its peers

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