Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 4
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess reserves: -2
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 5 ?

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR FOUNDATION

Increase and widen participation across a range of sports, education and physical activity initiatives;Promote health and wellbeing;Support the continual improvement of educational attainment of children and young people;Help with training, development and employment opportunities; Contribute to community regeneration;Create opportunities for young people that help enhance their lives
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £5,329,369 available, equivalent to 25 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
  • Spending is declining
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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
30/06/23£2,215£2,537£-322£0£5,601£5,32925.2481
30/06/22£2,607£2,545£62£0£5,923£5,71226.9491
30/06/21£2,159£2,261£-102£0£5,861£5,71030.3541
30/06/20£2,725£2,717£8£0£5,963£5,78525.6655
30/06/19£2,902£3,123£-221£0£5,954£5,78522.27610
30/06/18*£4,675£3,446£1,229£0£6,175£5,38018.7740
30/06/17£4,310£3,211£1,099£20£4,946£2,74210.2740
30/06/16£3,234£3,064£171£0£3,847£2,3499.2650
30/06/15£3,400£3,022£378£5£3,677£2,3019.1520
30/06/14£2,838£2,486£352£5£3,298£2,36411.4540
30/06/13£2,670£2,541£130£5£2,946£2,34011.1450
30/06/12£2,257£2,365£-109£5£2,816£2,37212410
30/06/11£1,687£1,807£-120£6£2,925£2,65117.6350
30/06/10£1,384£1,732£-348£16£3,044£3,04421.1280
30/06/09£1,577£1,819£-242£14£3,392£3,39222.4270
30/06/08£1,112£1,692£-580£40£3,635£3,63525.8240
30/06/07*£5,198£983£4,215£26£4,215£4,21551.5130

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 6%
Liabilities/Income: 15%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 95%
Reserves/Spending: 25.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 14 months
Quick Ratio: 9.2
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 19 years

www.tottenhamhotspur.com/foundation

foundation@tottenhamhotspur.com

02083655138

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Other education support
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Barnet, Enfield, Essex, Haringey, Waltham Forest,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities

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
Postcode Active Trust - Regular Grant 2023
£700,000 29/03/2023
Regular unrestricted award
Postcode Active Trust - Regular Grant 2022
£600,000 16/03/2022
Regular unrestricted award
Sport England - Walk to Fitness
£4,050 05/10/2016
17
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Walk to Fitness. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
Sport England - Shape up with Spurs
£91,500 16/04/2015
37
Funding under Sport England's Get Healthy, Get Active funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Shape up with Spurs'. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Tottenham Hotspur Foundation
£1,749,600 17/09/2014
Percy House: Regeneration through Heritage and Enterprise
National Lottery Community Fund - ACE Project (After Cancer Exercise)
£367,941 20/11/2013
60
This is a new project by Tottenham Hotspur Foundation (THF) that aims to introduce cancer patients and cancer survivors to opportunities to become physically active to improve their general health and wellbeing, enhance recovery from cancer and ....more
Sport England - Degree programme Football Team
£6,270 09/07/2013
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Degree programme Football Team'. This project is a Association Football project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
Sport England - Premier League 4 Sport (PL4S)
£7,000 11/08/2011
Funding under Sport England's Sportsmatch funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Premier League 4 Sport (PL4S)'. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports.
Sport England - DREAMS Project
£159,740 18/01/2011
Funding under Sport England's Themed Round 2 funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'DREAMS Project'. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 42-63
  • DONNA CULLEN Appointed: 2006, Occupation: Communications Consultant
  • DR NNENNA OSUJI Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Chief Executive Officer
  • JAN BALON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Headteacher
  • MATTHEW JOHN COLLECOTT Appointed: 2006, Occupation: Director
  • MICHAEL THOMAS HINCH Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Chief Executive
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/04/2006, number: 1113725
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/03/2006, number: 05760570
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment 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
  • Investment
  • 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
17 returns made; AR18: 1 days late, AR07: 1 days late,
Main office

Percy House
796 High Road
Tottenham
London
N17 0DH

Objectives

3.1 The Charity's objects (the Objects) are for the benefit of the public generally, both in the United Kingdom and overseas:3.1.1 to promote community participation in healthy recreation, in particular by the provision of facilities for the playing of football and other sports capable of improving health (“facilities” in this Article 3 means land, buildings, equipment and organising sporting activities);3.1.2 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 disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interest of social welfare and with the object of improving their conditions of life;3.1.3 to advance the education of the public in the subject of physical education, literacy, numeracy, personal social and health education and leisure and tourism; 3.1.4 to promote for the benefit of the public urban or rural regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation (and in particular in London and the Lea Valley area) by all or any of the following means:3.1.4.1 the advancement of education, training or retraining, particularly among unemployed people, and providing unemployed people with work experience;3.1.4.2 the promotion of public safety and prevention of crime; and3.1.4.3 such other means as may from time to time be determined subject to the prior written consent of the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales; 3.1.5 to develop the capacity and skills of the members of the disadvantaged community of London and the Lea Valley in such a way that they are better able to identify, and help meet, their needs and to participate more fully in society; and 3.1.6 for the general purposes of such charitable bodies or for such other exclusively charitable purposes in each case as the Trustees may from time to time decide in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WORLDWIDE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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