THE TIM HENMAN FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1161964 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THF creates opportunities that support and inspire children and young people to reach their potential.We deliver sport and education programmes for disadvantaged children and young people, focusing on those with special educational needs & disabilities and youngsters from low-income backgrounds.

Objects

(1) The relief of young people and their families who are disadvantaged by poverty, disability or who are suffering from ill health in particular, but not exclusively, by creating sporting and educational opportunities to advance their health and wellbeing.(2) To further such other charitable purposes (charitable under the law of England and Wales) for the benefit of such young people and their families as the Trustees see fit from time to time.

Area of benefit: ENGLAND AND WALES

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Crawley, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £11,097 for the year, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £571,107. The trustees report that free reserves of £165,407 cover six months of unrestricted annual expenditure, meeting their policy target of 50-75% of budgeted expenditure. The charity confirms it is prepared on a going concern basis, though it notes dependency on future funding streams.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 16.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/03/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark Laurencechair
• Andrew James Hynard
• Ashley Victor Silverton
• Dr Karl Georg Altenburg
• JAN FELGATE
• LUCY HENMAN
• Sophie Esther Shaen-Wilkinson
• TIM HENMAN

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 FULHAM FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION.

• FULHAM FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION income £2.9m
• THE BENJAMIN FOUNDATION income £8.7m
• THEIR FUTURE TODAY income £248k
• THE TALENT FOUNDRY TRUST income £2.0m
• THE THAMES CHARITABLE TRUST income £39k
• FUND FOR ACTION THROUGH EDUCATION income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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