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Registered charity · Hoddesdon

The Golf Foundation

To advance in life and help [children and] young people in any part of the world through:(a) the provision, or assistance in the provision, of recreational and leisure time activities and, in particular, golfing activities, provided in the interest...

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Amateur Sport
Where
Scotland, Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.golf-foundation.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Golf Foundation
Registered
1982

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.6m£1.7m
  • 2024£1.3m£1.7m
  • 2023£1.6m£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.4m£1.5m
  • 2021£1.7m£1.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

To advance in life and help [children and] young people in any part of the world through:(a) the provision, or assistance in the provision, of recreational and leisure time activities and, in particular, golfing activities, provided in the interest of social welfare, designed to improve their conditions of life; (b) providing support and activities which develop their skills, capacities and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals.

Grants received

3 grants · £36,500 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

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.

10 trustees on the board

4.9y median 5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (2)

10
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 10Education/training 10General Charitable Purposes 2

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 23Construction 4Professional services 4

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£1.6m 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.

10.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 14.8 in 2021

16 from 16 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
285917
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13/05/1953AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/11/1981AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 12/10/1982AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 02/07/2015 as amended on 20 Sep 2018 as amended on 02 Jul 2015 as amended on 05 May 2020 as amended on 29 Sep 2020 as amended on 29 Sep 2020
Companies House
Company number 00519615 · Active
Contact on the register
01992 449830 · admin@golf-foundation.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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