THE BROWNLEE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1166638 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH: (1) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE; (2) PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEM TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS. (3) TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH:(1) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;(2) PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.(3) TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

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

Causes: Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Ipswich, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £79,123 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £291,339. The trustees consider the charity adequately resourced to continue as a going concern, maintaining reserves intended to cover three months of normal running costs. The charity received an independent examination rather than a full audit.

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 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 31/12/2021 (received 03/11/2022, 3 days after the 31/10/2022 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: TBF EVENTS LIMITED Companies House 06011984 · Financial health read from its filings
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09362584 · Financial health read from its filings

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Pho3nix Foundation — “The Pho3nix Foundation has several programmes including an elite team of athletes, which features Alistair and Jonny Brownlee, as well as Ph…” (source page)
• HSBC — “Support comes from the Business banking North West division of HSBC UK Bank” (source page)

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.

• FLATTERS, Jasmine Alexis — director, appointed 23/07/2021not on trustee list
• RASCHE, Christopher Mark — director, appointed 31/01/2021on trustee list
• EVANS, Helen Rachel — director, appointed 31/01/2021on trustee list
• DUFFIELD, Alec — director, appointed 20/12/2017on trustee list
• SMITH, Christopher John — director, appointed 20/12/2017on trustee list
• BROWNLEE, Keith — director, appointed 20/12/2017on trustee list
• DOWNEY, Richard James — director, appointed 20/12/2017on trustee list
• BROWNLEE, Jonathan — director, appointed 19/12/2014on trustee list
• BROWNLEE, Alistair Edward — director, appointed 19/12/2014on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr KEITH BROWNLEEchair
• ALEC DUFFIELD
• ALISTAIR BROWNLEE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher John Smith · trustee of 3 other charities
• Helen Evans
• JONATHAN BROWNLEE
• Jasmin Flatters
• Mark Rasche
• RICHARD DOWNEY

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

Operates in: Leeds City

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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Side by side with its peers

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