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Registered charity · Birmingham

The Albion Foundation

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £3.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Also 2 organisations acting as trustee: Ashish Patel, Rajni Sitladin.

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Amateur Sport
Where
Birmingham City, Dudley, Sandwell, Worcestershire
Website
www.wba.co.uk/foundation (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Albion Foundation
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.0m£3.0m
  • 2024£2.8m£2.8m
  • 2023£2.7m£2.8m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.7m£2.7m
  • 2021£2.6m£2.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 2% · Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY, BOTH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS, TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE RECOGNISED UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND IN PARTICULAR: 3.1 PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL AND OTHER SPORTS CAPABLE OF IMPROVING HEALTH (FACILITIES IN THIS ARTICLE 3 MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES); 3.2 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, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, 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; 3.3 TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND TO PRESERVE AND PROMOTE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH HEALTHY RECREATION AND SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT; 3.4 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING ACADEMIC, SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION) OF CHILDREN AND OTHER PERSONS THROUGH SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT; AND 3.5 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.

Grants received

16 grants · £1,241,097 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

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £517,372 (5 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £250,000 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £226,065 (5 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £125,000
  • BBC Children in Need · £122,660 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £147,1882025-01-30
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £79,8722020-10-05
  • BBC Children in Need £3,0002020-06-17
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £49,7002020-06-04
  • BBC Children in Need £30,0002019-08-08
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.

8 trustees on the board

4.1y median 3.5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Amateur Sport 8Education/training 8General Charitable Purposes 8

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 8Health and social care 1Professional services 1

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£3.0m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

1.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.7 in 2021

100 from 99 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.
5%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1081948
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 12 JUNE 2000, AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 2 JUNE 2009 AND CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 15 JUNE 2009AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 06 OCT 2016
Companies House
Company number 04012682 · Active
Contact on the register
08712719840 · info@albionfoundation.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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