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

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:THE OBJECT OF BLOOMSBURY FOOTBALL FOUNDATION IS TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP YOUNGPEOPLE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THEINTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Paying staff
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

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 4.7 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 (5.3%) (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 FULHAM FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION.

• FULHAM FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION income £2.9m
• BROOMFIELD FOOTBALL CLUB income £168k
• MIDDLESBROUGH FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION income £2.6m
• BIRMINGHAM CITY FC FOUNDATION income £1.8m
• Brighton & Hove Albion Foundation income £3.7m
• BIRMINGHAM SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY TRUST income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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