Wolverhampton Wanderers Foundation

Analysis

Wolverhampton Wanderers Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Wolverhampton. It was registered in November 2008, 18 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 06625967). It says it makes grants to organisations, provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Wolverhampton Wanderers Foundation reported income of £2.7m and spending of £2.5m, spending 92% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from May 2021 to June 2025, income grew from £1.6m to £2.7m (+71%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2022, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Wolverhampton Wanderers Foundation sits at the 94th percentile: it is larger than about 94% 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 Jephcott Charitable Trust (£2.7m), British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (£2.7m) and The Broomgrove Trust (£2.7m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 87%, trading 7.6% and donations and legacies 5.1%. Charitable activities took 88% of spending and raising funds 12%. Reserves of £2.0m would cover about 10 months of spending at that rate. It employed 71 people.