The National Football Trust

Registered charity 1184825 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE LONDON FOOTBALL TRUST

The Charity's objects (Objects) are for the benefit of the public generally and, in particular, the inhabitantsof England to promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for the playing of association football and other sports capable of improving health. The Charity will lease sites and then contract an operator to manage the facilities.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE INHABITANTS OF ENGLAND: 1.1 TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL AND OTHER SPORTS CAPABLE OF IMPROVING HEALTH (FACILITIES IN THIS ARTICLE 3 MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES); 1.2 TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR SPORT, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; AND 1.3 TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR PHYSICAL EDUCATION, WITH A FOCUS ON CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH A VIEW TO HELPING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE DEVELOP AND GROW TO MATURITY AS MEMBERS OF SOCIETY BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Recreation · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group generated a significant surplus before transfers, with total income increasing by 39% to £12,024,069. The group holds free reserves of £3,512,854, which the trustees confirm are sufficient to sustain ordinary activity and cover essential operations. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lovewell Blake LLP. Discloses 3 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: LEISURE UNITED Companies House 10076004
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 11535526

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.

• BROWN, Belinda Louise — director, appointed 30/06/2026on trustee list
• PETERS, Cecil — director, appointed 30/06/2026on trustee list
• RUSSELL, Nicholas Costantino — director, appointed 24/06/2025on trustee list
• FRENCH, Victoria Jane — director, appointed 24/06/2025on trustee list
• SHAH, Khilna — director, appointed 20/02/2024on trustee list
• SHORES, Pam — director, appointed 20/02/2024not on trustee list
• MILLS, Kevin John — director, appointed 23/09/2021on trustee list
• GALLAGHER, David John — director, appointed 23/09/2021on trustee list
• KENDALL, James Thomas Charles — director, appointed 23/09/2021on trustee list
• PARROTT, Andrew Gordon — director, appointed 23/09/2021on trustee list
• HAUGHAN, Amy — secretary, appointed 20/08/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (69% 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: 10.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Gordon Parrott
• Belinda Louise Brown
• Cecil Peters
• DAVID JOHN GALLAGHER · trustee of 1 other charity
• JAMES THOMAS CHARLES KENDALL · trustee of 2 other charities
• Kevin John Mills
• Khilna Shah · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas Costantino Russell
• Pamela Shores
• Victoria Jane French

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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 THE NATIONAL LEAGUE TRUST.

• THE NATIONAL LEAGUE TRUST income £1.2m
• THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE (COMMUNITY) LIMITED income £15.7m
• THE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION income £128.2m
• READING FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £2.4m
• FULHAM FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION income £2.9m
• FARNBOROUGH FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £65k

Side by side with its peers

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