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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

Key Metric 1 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 2 20,500+ participants across all programmes; 13,126 unique participants; 18,939 total sessions delivered
Key Metric 3 36% of participants were women and girls; 36 average contact hours per participant; 26,842 total hours delivered

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

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
Delivered 11,474 sessions supporting 12,949 individuals across 40 programmes, generating 324,160 total engagements in 2025
Key Metric 2
Health & Wellbeing programmes delivered 270 sessions supporting 1,168 individuals, generating 7,315 engagements
Key Metric 3
Raised £50,714.49 net through the Foundation Fixture 2025 and £36,156.03 through the Fundraising Dinner (GBP)
Talking Tactics mentoring participant Jamie's confidence, aspirations and self-esteem grew significantly through one-to-one mentoring and mental health support
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
754 unique young people registered for Sport and Life Skills programmes (+114% vs 2022-23)
Key Metric 2
16 Locally Trusted Organisations delivered the programme, up from 9 in 2022-23
Key Metric 3
2,650 sessions held by delivery organisations in 2023-24
72% of young people reported 'getting on better at school or college' following engagement
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
Close to 2,000 participants supported in 2024/25 across youth, prison and environmental programmes
Key Metric 2
826 students from 10 state schools took part, 67% female, with 70% of partner schools in the most deprived areas (IMD 1-4)
Key Metric 3
184 serving or released prisoners engaged through the 'Boats not Bars' reducing-reoffending programme
85% of young people improved their mental wellbeing and 83% felt more confident through the youth programme
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
21,212 people engaged with in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
17,708 people played some form of rugby through Foundation programmes
Key Metric 3
More than £9,000 raised through Foundation Day; 9,000+ given back to grassroots rugby clubs
88% of girls in the Girls Tackle Rugby programme reported feeling more confident, per independent research with Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport