THE WIMBLEDON FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1156996 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grant making / charitable donations, primarily to charities in the London Boroughs of Merton & Wandsworth as well as to national, international and tennis related charities. The Wimbledon Junior Tennis Initiative which provides tennis coaching via visits to primary schools in Merton and Wandsworth and year round tennis coaching for children and young people.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted net assets of £1,495,000 at the end of the financial year, a decrease from £1,587,000 in the prior year. This reduction was driven by an expenditure exceeding income, despite the inclusion of £74,000 in investment gains within the general fund. The document notes there were no restricted funds in either the current or prior year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• HENRY BRUCE WEATHERILLchair
• Anne V K Bretherton MBE
• Deborah Anne Jevans
• Kevin Havelock
• Ruth Victoria Shaw
• SIR NICHOLAS YOUNG
• Samantha Jayne Olsen
• Sir Keith Onyema Ajegbo OBE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Merton · Wandsworth

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• AFC WIMBLEDON FOUNDATION income £1.0m
• WIMBLEDON ARTS income £670k
• WIMBLEDON GUILD OF SOCIAL WELFARE (INCORPORATED) income £2.4m
• LTA TENNIS FOUNDATION income £4.0m
• TENNIS FIRST income £301k
• THE QUEEN'S CLUB FOUNDATION income £311k

Side by side with its peers

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