Tottenham Hotspur Foundation

Analysis

Tottenham Hotspur Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in April 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and amateur sport, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05760570). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Tottenham Hotspur Foundation reported income of £3.2m and spending of £3.3m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £2.2m to £3.2m (+50%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2025, when income rose by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Tottenham Hotspur Foundation 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 The Donald Gordon Second Foundation (£3.2m), Streetscene Addiction Recovery (£3.2m) and The Federation of European Microbiological Societies (£3.2m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 82%, donations and legacies 15% and investments 3.4%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.4%. Reserves of £2.7m would cover about 10 months of spending at that rate. It employed 56 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.