THE PLAYERS FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£1.3m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£-186k

Accounts grants total

£-186k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

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Charities that name this funder on their own websites (website claims, separate from the accounts-extracted grants below).

THE CONCUSSION FOUNDATION “The CONCUSSION FOUNDATION is supported by sporting organizations that are involved in player welfare (e.g. The Players F”

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Education/training (7 grantees)
Economic/community Development/employment (4 grantees)
Amateur Sport (4 grantees)
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (2 grantees)
Arts/culture/heritage/science (2 grantees)
Environment/conservation/heritage (2 grantees)
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity (2 grantees)
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (2 grantees)
Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
Religious Activities (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (5 grantees)
Scotland (3 grantees)
Devon (1 grantee)
Dorset (1 grantee)
Dudley (1 grantee)
Hampshire (1 grantee)
Northern Ireland (1 grantee)
Poole (1 grantee)
Sandwell (1 grantee)
Somerset (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	SPORT 4 LIFE UK	—	£108k
new	Financial Planning Tool	—	£24k
new	Reposm	—	£-500k
up	THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL MUSEUM	£50k	£182k
down	Other grants	£4k	£100
not listed	THE CONCUSSION FOUNDATION	£54k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
The National Football Museum	FY2025	£182k	Grant funding activities
Sport 4 Life UK	FY2025	£108k	Grant funding activities
Financial Planning Tool	FY2025	£24k	Grant funding activities
Other grants	FY2025	£100	Grant funding activities
Reposm	FY2025	£-500k	Grant funding activities (Reversed)
The Concussion Foundation	FY2024	£54k	Grant funding activities
The National Football Museum	FY2024	£50k	Grant funding activities
Other grants	FY2024	£4k	Grant funding activities
Reposm Grant	FY2023	£500k	Not explicitly stated
The Concussion Foundation	FY2023	£150k	towards the costs of on-going research into head injuries in sport
Blueprint For All	FY2023	£59k	towards their Building Inclusive Futures Programme
Grenfell Community Project	FY2023	£10k	supporting the provision of an outreach worker within the local community of Grenfell
The National Football Museum	FY2023	£10k	Not explicitly stated in grant list, but mentioned in context of loan materials and review
The English Football League Trust	FY2022	£2.8m	Grant funding
Football Conference Community	FY2022	£1.2m	Grant funding
FA Medical	FY2022	£524k	Grant funding
The Premier League PFA Community Fund	FY2022	£400k	Grant funding
Sporting Chance	FY2022	£400k	Grant funding
Capital City Academy	FY2022	£175k	Grant funding
Kick it Out	FY2022	£158k	Grant funding
Blueprint For All	FY2022	£59k	Grant funding
Show Racism the Red Card	FY2022	£50k	Grant funding
On the Board	FY2022	£38k	Grant funding
Sundry grants	FY2022	£19k	Grant funding
Fairplay Awards	FY2022	£8k	Grant funding

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum -185582 vs reference -185582 (-0.0% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.