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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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