FOOTBALL BEYOND BORDERS

Registered charity 1158046 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FBB

Football Beyond Borders supports young people who are disengaged at school and passionate about football, in order to help them finish school with the skills and grades to make a successful transition into adulthood.

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained strong financial oversight, with unrestricted reserves falling below the three-month policy target at year-end but returning to the target range shortly after. The trustees confirmed the charity is a going concern, supported by a cash runway of over 12 months and more than 70% of the following year's income secured.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Brindley Millen Ltd. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2024) to £90,001 - £100,000 (FY2025).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 4 (FY2024) → 5 (FY2025).

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Football Beyond Borders (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jack Reynolds — Chief Executive (source)
• Joe Watfa — Director (source)
• Ceylon Andi Hickman — Director (source)
• Cosmo Lush — 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (61% 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: 29.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Barberchair
• Alma Donohoe
• Christopher Hunt
• Hugo Scheckter
• Ian Gethin
• Maria Mintah
• Sherine Mahmoud
• Syreeta Allen · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Bolton · Bradford City · Essex · Manchester City · Oldham · Salford City · St Helens · Throughout London · Walsall

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FOOTBALL FOR PEACE FOUNDATION.

• FOOTBALL FOR PEACE FOUNDATION income £115k
• BEYOND SHAME, BEYOND STIGMA income £285k
• THE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION income £128.2m
• BLOOMSBURY FOOTBALL FOUNDATION income £4.0m
• UNITED BORDERS income £290k
• BEYOND SPORT FOUNDATION income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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