Sheffield Wednesday Football Club Community Programme

Analysis

Sheffield Wednesday Football Club Community Programme is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sheffield. It was registered in March 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05053927). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Sheffield Wednesday Football Club Community Programme reported income of £2.9m and spending of £2.8m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £1.6m to £2.9m (+80%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Sheffield Wednesday Football Club Community Programme sits at the 95th percentile: it is larger than about 95% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hertford British Charitable Fund (£2.9m), Manchester Mind (£2.9m) and Sheffield Hospitals Charity (£2.9m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 86%, donations and legacies 5.4% and investments 1.5%. Charitable activities took 100% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Grants to other organisations totalled £175k. Reserves of £1.3m would cover about 6 months of spending at that rate. It employed 92 people.