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.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE FOUNDATION ARE TO PROMOTE ANY PURPOSE THAT IS CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION:THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, INCLUDING PHYSICAL EDUCATION, AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PERSONS THROUGH SPORT;THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING OR SUPPORTING THE PROVISIONS OF FACILITIES FOR PLAYING TENNIS OR OTHER SPORTS AND BY ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITY; ANDRELIEF FOR THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · 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 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.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2023 (received 06/06/2024, 6 days after the 31/05/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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 4.7 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 (5.3%) (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

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Known funders

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WIMBLEDON IN SPORTING HISTORY TRUST.

• THE WIMBLEDON IN SPORTING HISTORY TRUST income £35k
• THE WIMBLEDON SOCIETY income £48k
• AFC WIMBLEDON FOUNDATION income £1.0m
• WIMBLEDON GUILD OF SOCIAL WELFARE (INCORPORATED) income £2.4m
• WIMBLEDON ARTS income £650k
• FRIENDS OF WIMBLEDON HIGH SCHOOL income £44k

Side by side with its peers

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