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The Blenheim Foundation

Registered · see notesRegistered charity number 290988LondonAmateur sport and recreation
Income£207k2025-04-05
Spending£954ksame year
Spent / received733%5-year average
Size in its cause92nd pctAmateur sport and recreation
Registered1985Trust
Employees–latest return

Analysis

The Blenheim Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in January 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, amateur sport and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Blenheim Foundation reported income of £207k and spending of £954k, spending 461% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £1,410 to £207k (+14585%), an average of +248% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2023, when income rose by 558400%. Over the whole period it spent 733% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, The Blenheim Foundation sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses (£207k), Track Academy (£208k) and Kiyan Prince Foundation (£206k).

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.

Income and spending

£0£238k£477k£715k£954k2021 Income: £1,4102021 Spending: £565,46020212022 Income: £22022 Spending: £238,34620222023 Income: £11,1702023 Spending: £223,06220232024 Income: £65,0352024 Spending: £106,80820242025 Income: £207,0582025 Spending: £953,5102025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

RESTORING AND PRESERVING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BLENHEIM AND OTHER BUILDINGS IN VICINITY OR ELSEWHERE WHICH ARE OF PARTICULAR BEAUTY OR OF PARTICULAR ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST. PRESERVING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BLENHEIM PARK OR OTHER LAND IN THE VICINITY OR ELSEWHERE OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY.

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Brockwell Park Community GreenhousesLondon£207k
Track AcademyLondon£208k
Kiyan Prince FoundationLondon£206k
The Greaves & Withey FoundationBristol£208k