The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

West HAM United Foundation

Registered charity 1114458 Registered since 2006

Operates: Throughout London, Essex

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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.

6 trustees on the board

10.7y median 11.5y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

22.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (2)

6
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 6The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6Disability 5Amateur Sport 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.

Tech and media 22Professional services 15Arts and leisure 10

Gaps to watch

  • 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£3.9m 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.

0.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.2 in 2021

138 from 144 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.
17%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

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.whufc.com
Emailcommunity@westhamunited.co.uk
Phone02085482768
Address60A Albatross Close, Off Woolwich Manor Way, London, E6 5NX

Finances

£3,901,150 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£3,341,239£3,164,600
2022£3,613,200£3,343,986
2023£3,612,603£3,536,585
2024£3,206,262£3,364,252
2025£3,901,150£3,844,895

What it does

What

Education/trainingDisabilityThe Prevention Or Relief Of PovertyAmateur SportRecreation

Who

Children/young PeoplePeople With DisabilitiesPeople Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial OriginThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Human ResourcesProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides Services

Charitable objects

The Charity’s objects (Objects) are for the benefit of the public generally in the United Kingdom and overseas and, in particular, the inhabitants of London and its surrounding areas:1. to 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);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 interests of social welfare and with the object of improving their conditions of life; and3. to advance the education of the public and in particular children and young people through such means as the trustees think fit in accordance with the law of charity; and4. for such other wholly charitable purposes for the public benefit under the laws of England and Wales as the Trustees may from time to time determine.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 06/03/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/11/2007AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 06/04/2010AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 03/12/2014 as amended on 04 Dec 2019

Trustees (6)

6trustees
65median age
2aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

West HAM United Foundation · 05731045 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 06/03/2006

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (2)

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