Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 17
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs high: -3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +17
Overall GiG Score: 22 ?

FOOTBALL BEYOND BORDERS 

Football Beyond Borders supports young people who are disengaged at school and passionate about football, in order to help them finish school with the skills and grades to make a successful transition into adulthood.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 10 years

www.footballbeyondborders.org

info@footballbeyondborders.org

07969523766

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/08/22£2,786£2,754£31£826£1,522£1,3846730
31/08/21£2,133£1,826£307£671£1,490£1,1857.8640
31/08/20£1,922£1,247£675£313£1,183£9489.15110
31/08/19?£733£618£116£72£508£4528.82480
31/12/18£736£514£222£50£393£3027.13050
31/12/17£408£365£43£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£344£299£45£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£209£130£79£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 32.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 30%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 21%
Liabilities/Income: 14%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 91%
Reserves/Spending: 6 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 4.7
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Birmingham City, Bolton, Bradford City, Essex, Manchester City, Oldham, Salford City, St Helens, Throughout London, Walsall,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
Who works here?
  • 73 employees

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Impetus PEF£1,075,000
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£550,000
Comic Relief£395,253
Sport England£306,255
Esmee Fairbairn£183,000
Henry Smith Charity£174,000
Greater London Authority£119,825
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund£100,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Football Beyond Borders
£20,000 18/10/2023
Refurbishment of office space for a charity which works with young people at risk of school exclusion in Lambeth
Greater London Authority - Streetz Football Community Sessions
£5,600 18/07/2023
‘Streetz Football’ is a community-led project that will deliver football sessions to X young people aged 8-15 years old living in some of London’s most underserved communities. We will deliver ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to FOOTBALL BEYOND BORDERS
£150,000 14/06/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs to support us with the development of a national training programme (NTP) for school-based, culturally competent, relational practitioners
Dulverton Trust - Core Funding - Expansion Strategy
£35,000 07/06/2023
Core Funding - Expansion Strategy
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Youth Strategic Investment Fund
£30,000 18/01/2023
Football Beyond Borders uses football to support marginalised young people to raise attainment and aspirations. This grant provides core funding to support organisational development and growth ....more
Impetus PEF -
£493,750 01/08/2022
The Childhood Trust - C-59228
£18,750 28/06/2022
Beyond the Box campaign aligns with the 2022 Women's Euros focusing on breaking the boundaries that societies place on women and girls. Links with Unapologetically Us module that recognises from ....more
Tuixen Foundation - Core grant to Football Beyond Borders
£40,000 01/04/2022
Supporting young people who are disengaged from school using their interest about football to build trust and engage them in education and football.
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to Football Beyond Borders
£100,000 09/03/2022
Main Grant Unrestricted Core Costs
Impetus PEF -
£391,250 01/07/2021
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 28/05/2021
Football Beyond Borders' Schools Programme.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Football Beyond Borders - organisational development
£500,000 23/03/2021
Football Beyond Borders is an education charity which uses football to support marginalised young people to raise attainment and aspiration. This grant provides core funding to support organisational ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Football Beyond Borders
£174,000 04/02/2021
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of an organisation which uses football as a catalyst for creating a change in attitude, performance and aspirations for disengaged young ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Covid-19 Emergency Funding
£20,000 20/01/2021
3
Football Beyond Borders is an education charity, based in South London, which uses football to support marginalised young people to raise attainment and aspiration, reduce risk of school exclusion ....more
Impetus PEF -
£90,000 01/07/2020
Comic Relief - Virtual School
£39,960 23/06/2020
6
COVID19 Recovery funding
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Football Beyond Borders
£40,000 08/06/2020
24
Towards therapy supervisory costs for the Schools’ Plus football-therapy model.
Nesta - AC01138
£4,700 29/05/2020
0
COVID19 Emergency Fund programme grant to Football Beyond Borders' Schools' Programme Grant Ref AC01138
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£32,719 20/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Football Beyond Borders
£37,585 19/05/2020
A grant of £37,585 to fund the essential and urgent costs outlined in the appliciation, so that the organisation can carry on providing support to Londoners.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Football Beyond Borders
£33,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Sport England - Potential Fund #iwill extension
£298,686 04/03/2020
35
Funding under Sport England's Volunteering Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled Potential Fund #iwill extension. This project is a Association Football project, with a focus on ....more
Comic Relief - Football Therapy
£355,293 21/01/2020
36
Football Beyond Borders work with young people excluded or at risk of exclusion, with this proposal integrating their existing football therapy based intervention that operates in over 45 schools, ....more
Greater London Authority - Football Beyond Borders
£114,225 01/01/2020
Positive activities for young people involved in crime or at risk of crime or exclusion
Walcot Foundation - Expansion of the FBB Schools' Programme to Lambeth.
£44,990 16/07/2019
36
Expansion of the FBB Schools' Programme to Lambeth.
Impetus PEF -
£100,000 01/07/2019
Sport England - Spoken Word Poetry Video
£7,569 04/06/2019
0
Funding under Sport England's National Programme funding programme for a Revenue project titled Spoken Word Poetry Video. This project lists its main activity as Association Football
The Rayne Foundation - Grant to Football Beyond Borders
£20,000 11/03/2019
12
Towards the salary costs of a Counsellor who can provide a specialist intervention for participants of its core schools programme who require additional therapeutic support.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Football Beyond Borders
£198,000 06/03/2019
36
Towards unrestricted core costs of an organisation using football to tackle the barriers which prevent young people achieving their potential, working to reduce school exclusion and support young ....more
Nesta - AC00875
£47,913 27/02/2019
23
Future Ready Fund programme grant to Football Beyond Borders' Schools' Programme Grant Ref AC00875
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - FBB Schools: Growing our Impact
£60,000 10/12/2018
24
Football Beyond Borders (FBB) is an education charity which uses football to support young people experiencing disadvantage. Follow-on funding will support FBB to scale the programme nationally to ....more
Greater London Authority - Young Londoners Fund
£139,766 06/11/2018
The Positive Choice, Different Paths project will work with disengaged young people aged 10-16 who are at risk of developing entrenched, challenging behaviour patterns leading to permanent exclusion. ....more
Greater London Authority - FBB: Every Ends
£117,500 03/11/2018
FBB, St Matthew's Project (SMP) and Spiral are partnering to work with 120 at risk young people from our schools in rival South London postcodes to join FBB's Every Ends programme. Every Ends uses ....more
Greater London Authority - FBB: Every Ends
£117,500 03/11/2018
FBB, St Matthew's Project (SMP) and Spiral are partnering to work with 120 at risk young people from our schools in rival South London postcodes to join FBB's Every Ends programme. Every Ends uses ....more
Comic Relief - FBB: Every Ends
£117,500 25/09/2018
24
Football Beyond Borders (FBB), St Matthew's Project (SMP) and Spiral will deliver 'Every Ends programme' - a programme working with 120 young people at risk of exclusion from Schools in rival South ....more
Greater London Authority - FBB Schools: Positive Choices, Different Paths
£139,766 04/08/2018
FBB delivers a preventative programme which works with our community of disengaged 10 - 16 year olds who are at risk of developing entrenched, challenging behaviour patterns leading to permanent ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Football Beyond Borders
£60,600 07/12/2017
36
towards three years' salary of the Head of Delivery at an education charity which uses football as a catalyst for creating positive change in attitude, performance and aspirations for disengaged ....more
Sport England - Potentials Fund
£97,250 11/10/2017
35
Funding under Sport England's Potentials Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled Potentials Fund. This project is a Association Football project, with a focus on beneficiaries from a BAME ....more
The Fore - Grant to Football Beyond Borders
£30,000 19/07/2016
24
Grant funded the salary of the Head of Communications and Community to deliver its Youth Voices strategy; a structured programme training participants to be at the forefront of the planning, ....more
Walcot Foundation - FBB Schools Lambeth
£55,861 19/07/2016
36
FBB Schools Lambeth
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - FBB Schools - UK programme scaling
£49,200 18/07/2016
23
PHF support will part-fund the salary of the Head of Delivery to double the reach of the FBB Schools Programme in London and widen FBB’s reach outside London by developing work in Cardiff and ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Football Beyond Borders
£92,731 02/09/2015
36
Towards the salary of the head of operations to enable more young people to benefit from football-inspired programmes that address educational inequality.
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How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed

Age Range of Trustees: 33-72
  • ANINDA SAHA Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Partner At Brunswick Group
  • HUGO SCHECKTER Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Founder & Managing Director- The Player Care Group
  • IAN GETHIN (Chair) Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Advisor
  • SYREETA ALLEN Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Associate Director Education Transformation
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 29/07/2014, number: 1158046
  • Registered at Companies House on 10/12/2013, number: 08809181
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
8 returns made; all on time
Main office

Unit 4
Warwick House
Overton Road
London
SW9 7JP

Objectives

TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 30 BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISINGPROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF: (A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR CAPACITY TO BECOME ENGAGED IN PUBLIC LIFE FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THEMSELVES AND SOCIETY AS A WHOLE. (B) ADVANCING EDUCATION. (C) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT. (D) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND SOCIAL HARMONY FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.

Data Sources

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