Impact Report 2025

Brentford FC Community Sports Trust is an independent charity operating in partnership with Brentford Football Club, based at the Gtech Community Stadium in Brentford, West London. The 2025 Impact Report highlights 20,500+ participants across 18,939 sessions spanning education, employability, disability sport, mental health and community engagement across Hounslow, Ealing, Richmond and Hillingdon, with a social impact value of £70.6 million.

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📋About

Pathways programmes: Post-16 Football Education Academy (launched September 2025); Changing the Game apprenticeship for community development professionals (with Premier League Foundation and PFA); Turnaround Mentoring (criminal justice); Training Ground employability programme; Access to Sport: Schools Programme (5,407 children); Joy of Moving (3,370 children); All Ability Bees disability programme (1,082 participants); Premier League Kicks; PAN Disability League; FA Emerging Talent Centre (girls); gymnastics, dance and cheer (Tumble Bees, Boogie Bees, Sting Cheer); Improving Health: Memory Hive (Alzheimer's); Active Minds; BeeActive Football; BeeComing You; Comedy for Thought (mental health); Clubhouse Café at Gunnersbury Park Sports Hub (opened September 2025); CPR/defibrillator training; Bee A Hero blood donation campaign

📊Key Metrics

Total income £4,350,000 and total expenditure £4,190,000 (year ended 31 March 2025); social impact value of £70.6 million generated in 2022/23 Key Metric 1
20,500+ participants across all programmes; 13,126 unique participants; 18,939 total sessions delivered Key Metric 2
36% of participants were women and girls; 36 average contact hours per participant; 26,842 total hours delivered Key Metric 3

Key Outcomes

  • 96% of disability programme participants reported improved physical and mental health; 100% of Turnaround Mentoring participants positively engaged and none re-offended within 3 months; 87% of Post-16 participants felt the programme had a positive impact
  • Bee A Hero campaign won Community Project of the Year at London Football Awards; PAN Disability League won League of the Year at Middlesex FA Awards; Josh Dasilva named Brentford PFA Community Champion 2024/25; Clubhouse Café opened at Gunnersbury Park
  • Indeed partnership renewed as Brentford FC's official training wear and recruitment partner from 2025/26; 81% of Training Ground participants progressed into employment, training or education; six FA Emerging Talent Centre players visited Downing Street celebrating women's and girls' football

📍Geography

London

2025 Enhanced

Impact Review 2024/25

£3,112,419 raised to deliver projects in 2024/25; total income £2,920,000 and total expenditure £2,850,000 (year ended 31 August 2024)
Key Metric 1
28,692 people took part in activities; 307,544 visits to sessions; 17,793 sessions delivered
Key Metric 2
More than 16,000 young people engaged across early years and primary programmes; 34 Premier League Primary Stars partner schools; over 7,000 healthy meals provided on HAF camps
Key Metric 3
Blackpool FC Sports College A Team won the CEFA league title 2024/25; BFC School received 'Good' Ofsted rating in November 2024; Norbreck Primary Academy reached EFL Utilita Kids Cup National Final at Wembley, winning Regional Finals unbeaten
2025 Enhanced

Impact Report 2025

Total income £659,217 and total expenditure £674,216 (year ended 30 June 2025, charity no. 1137275); 10,252 individuals engaged across the 2024/25 season, with 9,713 being young people in schools
Key Metric 1
82% of participants reported positive impact on mental wellbeing; 84% on physical wellbeing; 82% on sense of community; 86% made new friends since joining
Key Metric 2
70% agreed they made positive changes to their life as a result of CUF activity; 63% of adult participants felt a strong sense of community/belonging, 2% above the national average; 78% agreed they feel more motivated to be physically active (Forever United older adults programme)
Key Metric 3
56.7% of young people hardly ever or never feel lonely vs national average; 94% of participants feel welcome, safe and included; CUF participants ranked higher than Cambridge and UK averages for happiness, life satisfaction and worthwhile life
2025 Enhanced

Impact Report 2024-25

6,744 participants engaged across education, social inclusion, employability, heritage and health programmes in 2024/25
Key Metric 1
37,357 hours of positive activity delivered; £3.9 million in social value generated
Key Metric 2
4,805 pupils supported across 58 education settings; 300+ young people referred across six Engage hubs in Northampton, Kettering, Corby and Milton Keynes
Key Metric 3
89% of young people attending Engage programme made positive steps; 92% of employability learners moved to positive progression