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Middlesbrough Football Club Foundation

Registered charity 1059418 Registered since 1996

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

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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.

9 trustees on the board

7.7y median 7y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

8
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 9The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8Disability 7General 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 15Other services 4Arts and leisure 3

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  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.mfcfoundation.co.uk
Emailenquiries@mfcfoundation.co.uk
Phone01642757674
AddressTHE GIBSON O'NEILL COMPANY LIMITED, BRIGNELL ROAD, MIDDLESBROUGH, CLEVELAND, TS2 1PS

Finances

£2,645,551 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£2,097,995£1,828,614
2022£5,102,221£2,365,100
2023£2,812,045£2,626,452
2024£2,914,368£2,609,268
2025£2,645,551£2,727,977

What it does

What

Education/trainingThe Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of LivesDisabilityAmateur SportRecreation

Who

Children/young PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides Services

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.

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

Trustees (9)

9trustees
58median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Middlesbrough Football Club Foundation · 03142447 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 29/12/1995

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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