Community & Social Justice Health & Wellbeing 2022
Celtic FC Foundation

Annual Report Year Ended 30 June 2022

Celtic FC Foundation (SC024648) is the charitable arm of Celtic Football Club, based at Celtic Park in Glasgow. The 2021/22 Annual Report documents a post-COVID return to full project delivery, with income rising 65% to £2.8 million, 15 of 18 projects restored and a record Christmas Appeal of £380,000. New for the year was the Paradise Recovery Café for substance misuse recovery, and the extension of the Lions' View Sensory Room to include people living with dementia.

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Paradise Recovery Café (launched this year, weekly at Celtic Park, substance misuse, mental health, trauma and homelessness recovery, peer support and alternative therapies, bite to eat); Lions' View Sensory Room (returned to full match day experience; extended to include people living with dementia for first time); Ability Counts (Glasgow Down Syndrome/Autism and 18+ strands); Lions' Lunch Breaks (Glasgow and Edinburgh, dementia, twice-weekly, music/arts/crafts/interactive games); CashBack Gateway to Employment (Celtic Park core delivery, prison outreach, in-house counselling, final year of Phase 5 ahead of Phase 6 bid); Gateway to Health and Opportunity; Joy of Moving (primary schools, Glasgow's most deprived areas, curriculum-linked health and nutrition); School Games (summer, October and Easter breaks, Celtic Park, activities/educational workshops/healthy meals); Community Jobs Scotland; Towards Better Futures; London Breaking Barriers; Festive Friends; Football for Good Fund (retained from COVID response, food, fuel and mental health support, 101 charity partners to date); New York and London Galas, Glasgow Sporting Dinner, Zip Slide in Paradise (112 supporters), Season Ticket Renewal donations

📊Key Metrics

Charity income £2,796,845 and expenditure £2,298,972 (year ended 30 June 2022, SC024648); income increased from £1,695,495 in 2020/21 as traditional fundraising events reinstated post-COVID; in-kind support from Celtic FC valued at £196,846 Key Metric 1
15 of 18 previous projects operating at pre-COVID levels by year end; Football for Good Fund worked with 101 charitable partner organisations across Scotland, Ireland, the wider UK and New York since launch; Lions' View Sensory Room returned to full match day experience Key Metric 2
2021/22 Christmas Appeal raised net total of £380,000 — Foundation's best ever at the time — supporting 1,607 families, 2,437 Glasgow children, 352 local pensioners, and partners including 12 children/family, 4 Women's Aid, 11 homeless and 4 refugee charity organisations Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Income increased 65% from £1.69m to £2.80m as fundraising events fully reinstated; Christmas Appeal raised £380,000 net — best ever at the time; Paradise Recovery Café launched; Lions' View Sensory Room returned to full match day experience with new dementia access
  • First full year of fundraising since COVID; Paradise Recovery Café launched as new project; Celtic Manager Ange Postecoglou strong advocate for Foundation, attended London Gala hours after winning first cinch Premiership title at Tannadice; Football for Good Fund reached 101 charity partner organisations since COVID launch
  • £196,846 in-kind support from Celtic FC; Zip Slide in Paradise first fundraising event at Celtic Park since pandemic (112 participants); Supporters' Committee Dinner Dance, Celtic Staff Charity Match and Brother Walfrid at Grove Ferry evening organised by supporters; New York and London committees key to fundraising success

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Scotland

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