Registered charity · Southwick
The Russell Martin Foundation
- 7 trustees
- Income £1.4m (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
- Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Amateur Sport
- Where
- East Sussex, West Sussex, Brighton And Hove
- Website
- www.russellmartinfoundation.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Russell Martin Foundation
- Registered
- 2017
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.4m£1.4m
- 2024£1.4m£1.5m
- 2023£1.2m£1.3m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.1m£1.1m
- 2021£716k£688k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 5%. 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 AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE INHABITANTS OF BRIGHTON, EAST SUSSEX 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 ACTIVITIES);2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING ACADEMIC, SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION) OF SUCH PEOPLE THROUGH SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT;3. TO ENCOURAGE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GAME OF ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL, OTHER LEISURE-TIME ACTIVITIES AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES SO THAT THEY MIGHT GROW TO MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED;4. 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
13 grants · £195,559 total360Giving 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
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £75,000 (2 grants)
- Youth Music · £29,824
- Sussex Community Foundation · £28,019 (5 grants)
- Henry Smith Foundation · £20,000
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £19,956 (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.
7 trustees on the board
- Russell Martin Chair since 2016
- Adrian Harold Batchelor since 2021
- James Burt since 2023
- Jamie Martin since 2024
- Kieran Mercer since 2022
- Lawrence May since 2026
- Richard Bradford since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- Russell Martin Chair since 2016
- Richard Bradford since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Russell Martin Chair since 2016
- James Burt since 2023
- Jamie Martin since 2024
- Kieran Mercer since 2022
- Lawrence May since 2026
- Richard Bradford since 2020
Portfolio (1)
- Adrian Harold Batchelor since 2021
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
0.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.6 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1174134
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10 NOV 2016
- Companies House
- Company number 10473815 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01273591364 · info@rmfoundation.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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