BLOOMSBURY FOOTBALL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1178842 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Bloomsbury Football Foundation uses the power of football to improve mental and physical wellbeing, fostercommunity cohesion and build life skills to give young people the best chance of succeeding

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a surplus of £204,626 and held unrestricted reserves of £798,326. Per the trustees' report, this reserve level of £966,901 (total funds) exceeds the stated policy target of three months' running costs, which was calculated at roughly £961,000 for the year. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Menzies LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Charlie Hyman — CEO (source)
• Charlie Cowen — Chair (source)
• Anthony Hayman — Director (source)
• Teresa Wolverton — Director (source)
• James Bennett — Director (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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 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 (76% 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: 13.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Edward Huxley Cowenchair
• Alison Durban
• Dr ARABELLA ELIZABETH DUFFIELD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edward Gareth Woodward
• Emma Davies · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gareth Price
• Murad Uddin Ahmed
• SAMANTHA VICTORIA BUNIS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Theepan Jothilingam

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Brighton & Hove Albion Foundation.

• Brighton & Hove Albion Foundation income £3.7m
• FULHAM FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION income £2.9m
• THE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION income £128.2m
• MIDDLESBROUGH FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION income £2.6m
• The BloomSpace Foundation income £161k
• MANCHESTER UNITED FOUNDATION income £8.7m

Side by side with its peers

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