Finance Score: 7

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 3

Good reserves management: +3
Reasonable growth: +1
Fundraising costs low: +3

Good trustee age range: +3

Overall weighted support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 13

MIDDLESBROUGH FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION

The charity aims to encourage and advance the education of children and adults within the community with the purpose of promoting a healthy lifestyle and improving their condition of life and to promote community involvement in healthy recreation by providing facilities capable of improving physical health and to encourage and advance the education of such persons.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/08/23		£2,812	£2,626	£186	£147	£4,678	£1,098	5	78	50
31/08/22		£5,102	£2,365	£2,737	£111	£4,493	£956	4.9	80	10
31/08/21		£2,098	£1,829	£269	£77	£1,755	£836	5.5	58	10
31/08/20	*	£2,081	£1,685	£395	£56	£1,486	£729	5.2	64	10
31/08/19		£2,394	£1,853	£541	£91	£1,091	£649	4.2	62	15
31/08/18		£1,931	£1,808	£123	£57	£550	£544	3.6	62	0
31/08/17		£1,874	£1,748	£126	£84	£427	£421	2.9	56	0
31/08/16		£1,305	£1,353	£-48	£48	£301	£295	2.6	41	0
31/08/15		£1,142	£1,065	£77	£72	£350	£347	3.9	32	0
31/08/14?		£1,214	£1,029	£185	£74	£272	£257	3	26	0
31/07/13		£705	£725	£-20	£38	£87	£78	1.3	17	0
31/07/12		£700	£822	£-122	£13	£103	£-192	-2.8	22	0
31/07/11	*	£1,756	£1,725	£31	£47	£225	£-62	-0.4	74	0
31/07/10	*	£2,491	£2,498	£-7	£98	£195	£-198	-0.9	85	0
31/07/09	*	£2,448	£2,204	£244	£127	£202	£-174	-0.9	94	0
31/07/08		£2,515	£2,311	£204	£117	£-41	£-196	-1	102	0
31/07/07		£1,804	£1,863	£-59	£85	£-245	£-245	-1.6	86	0
31/07/06		£1,746	£1,799	£-53	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/05	*	£1,163	£1,262	£-99	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/07/04	*	£1,036	£1,080	£-45	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 5.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 5.6%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 10%
Liabilities/Income: 19%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 23%
Reserves/Spending: 5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 19 months
Quick Ratio: 16.3

Asset Split ?

Balance Sheet History

Established: 28 years

www.mfcfoundation.co.uk

enquiries@mfcfoundation.co.uk

01642757674

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Amateur Sport
Disability
Education/Training
Recreation
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

GiG Classification

How it operates

Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Darlington, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, Redcar And Cleveland, Stockton-on-tees,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Warm Welcome
£10,000	02/12/2022	The funding will be used to provide support for residents over the winter months. This will include access to warm spaces with Wi-Fi and hot refreshments clothing and food electrical safety financial wellbeing and health workshops activity sessions ....more The funding will be used to provide support for residents over the winter months. This will include access to warm spaces with Wi-Fi and hot refreshments clothing and food electrical safety financial wellbeing and health workshops activity sessions and links to service provider partners including foodbanks. The project aims to support people during the cost-of-living crisis to help keep them safe and improve wellbeing.
County Durham Community Foundation - Darlington Mayor's Employability Initiative
£10,000	22/12/2020	Darlington Mayor's Employability Initiative
County Durham Community Foundation - RiverSideBySide
£49,500	10/10/2018	To use the iconic image and status of Middlesbrough Football Club and the Riverside Stadium as a vehicle to promote community cohesion and counteract extremist ideologies.
Virgin Money Foundation - Grant to Middlesbrough Football Club Foundation
£150,000	17/08/2017 36	The #iwill Take Action award will enable them to support young people through a three stage social action programme with a focus on health and well-being. Young people will be recruited as Ambassadors who will support other young people coming ....more The #iwill Take Action award will enable them to support young people through a three stage social action programme with a focus on health and well-being. Young people will be recruited as Ambassadors who will support other young people coming through the programme.
County Durham Community Foundation - Kicks
£7,060	30/05/2017	To support the Kicks program to deliver 3 hours of activities per week.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Middlesbrough Football Club Foundation
£18,200	27/09/2013	MFCF operates across the Borough of Middlesbrough delivering a range of sporting activities to disadvantaged young people with an aim of reducing levels of anti social behaviours
Sport England - Staying Streets Ahead
£9,500	11/09/2013	Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Staying Streets Ahead'. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
Sport England - Premier League 4 Sport
£2,625	06/12/2012	Funding under Sport England's Sportsmatch funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Premier League 4 Sport'. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports.
Sport England - Premier League 4 Sport
£5,250	04/11/2011	Funding under Sport England's Sportsmatch funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Premier League 4 Sport'. This project lists its main activity as Hockey.
Sport England - Premier League 4 Sport
£7,000	01/07/2011	Funding under Sport England's Sportsmatch funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Premier League 4 Sport'. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports.

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How is it governed?

Trustees (10)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:

GRAHAM JOHN REDMAN Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Accountant

HELENA BOWMAN Appointed: 2023

JOANNE PATRICIA FRYETT Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Local Government Officer

JOHN BAKER (Chair) Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Director

KATHERINE VICTORIA GIBSON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Actor

MR ROBIN BLOOM Appointed: 2012

NEIL JAMES BAUSOR Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Company Executive

PETER WILLIAM ROWLEY Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Consultant

REV ADAM GAUNT Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Clerk-In-Holy-Orders

THOMAS RIORDAN Appointed: 2024

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 25/11/1996, number: 1059418
Registered at Companies House on 29/12/1995, number: 03142447

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
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
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

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR20: 9 days late, AR11: 64 days late, AR10: 280 days late, AR09: 11 days late, AR05: 30 days late, AR04: 119 days late,

Main office

THE GIBSON O'NEILL COMPANY LIMITED
BRIGNELL ROAD
MIDDLESBROUGH
CLEVELAND
TS2 1PS

Objectives

5.1 To encourage and advance the education of children and adults within the community with the purpose of promoting a healthy lifestyle and improving their condition of life;5.2 To promote community involvement in healthy recreation by providing facilities for the playing of football and other sports capable of improving physical health to such persons who have need for such facilities and to encourage and advance the education of such persons in order to allow them to develop to the best of their abilities, both physical and otherwise;5.3 Such other charitable purposes as may be determined by the Trustees from time to time.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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