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Registered charity · Stoke-on-Trent

Port Vale Football Club Foundation

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Recreation
Where
Staffordshire, Stoke-on-trent City
Website
www.portvalefoundation.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Port Vale Football Club Foundation
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.5m£1.2m
  • 2024£923k£1.0m
  • 2023£1.2m£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£777k£765k
  • 2021£567k£546k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 22%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3. OBJECTSTHE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY, BOTH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS, AND MOST ESPECIALLY THE INHABITANTS OF STOKE-ON-TRENT WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE AREA AROUND BURSLEM AND THE ST6 POSTCODE AREA:3.1 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);3.2 TO PROVIDE (OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF) 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 DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, 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;3.3 TO PROVIDE (OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF) SPORTING, RECREATIONAL, LEISURE OR EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OR OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY;3.4 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING ACADEMIC AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION) OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS; AND3.5 FOR THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITIES OR FOR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN EACH CASE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Grants received

10 grants · £319,229 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £290,682 (5 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £16,000 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £9,920
  • Sport England · £2,627 (2 grants)

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.

11 trustees on the board

4.3y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

10
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 11General Charitable Purposes 11Recreation 11

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 13Finance 7Arts and leisure 5

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£1.5m 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.

0.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 2.1 in 2021

43 from 29 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
1161401
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 27 JAN 2015
Companies House
Company number 09408894 · Active
Contact on the register
01782757066 · foundation.trust@port-vale.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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