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Middlesbrough Football Club Foundation

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...

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £2.6m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, Amateur Sport and 1 more
Where
North Yorkshire, Middlesbrough, Redcar And Cleveland, Stockton-on-tees and more
Website
www.mfcfoundation.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Middlesbrough Football Club Foundation
Registered
1996

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.6m£2.7m
  • 2024£2.9m£2.6m
  • 2023£2.8m£2.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.1m£2.4m
  • 2021£2.1m£1.8m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

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.

Grants received

11 grants · £405,170 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

12 trustees on the board

4.7y median 1.5y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (3)

9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 11Disability 10General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 12Health and social care 2Other services 2

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.6m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

6.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.5 in 2021

66 from 58 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1059418
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29/12/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 11/03/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/12/2006AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 08/10/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 09/10/2012 as amended on 08 Oct 2012 as amended on 24 Jan 2019 as amended on 24 Jan 2019 as amended on 22 Apr 2026
Companies House
Company number 03142447 · Active
Contact on the register
01642757674 · enquiries@mfcfoundation.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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