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Millwall Community Trust's 2025 Annual Report

Millwall Community Trust is the official charity of Millwall FC, using football and sport to deliver education, employability, health, inclusion and crime reduction programmes in Lewisham, Southwark and Sevenoaks. Its 2025 Annual Report shows the Trust working with 14,500 people during the year.

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About

Millwall Community Trust works with people of all ages. Children enjoy holiday camps, Premier League Primary Stars, Joy of Moving and the EFL Girls and Kids Cup, while older students can join the Post 16 Football and Education Programme or the Alternative Provision Academy. The EFL Training Ground programme and the Youth Employability Hub help people into work, and Premier League Kicks, mentoring and crime reduction projects such as Divert, My Ends and GameChangers Southwark give young people positive choices. The Trust also runs disability sport, Millwall Slam for adult mental health, Walking Football, programmes for veterans and in prisons, the Lionesses Academy, the Lions Food Hub, the Forever Lions Club and the Millwall Romans, an LGBTQI+ inclusive team.

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Millwall Community Trust worked with 14,500 individuals in 2025.
Key Metric 2 The Trust provided 9,500 free meals, engaged more than 3,200 children weekly through schools provision and ran Premier League Kicks sessions for 1,123 participants.
Key Metric 3 More than 2,000 people attended 234 employability events and over 250 secured employment; total income was £1.231m, compared with £1.390m in 2024 (GBP).

Key Outcomes

  • AP Academy participants showed a 90% improvement against their previous school attendance.
  • More than 40% of Training Ground participants achieved a positive outcome into education, employment or training, and 94% of children on Joy of Moving said the six-week programme gave them new ideas for being active.
  • Eve joined the Employability Hub looking to move from hospitality into youth work and progressed through mentoring and roles at the Trust to become full-time Premier League Inspires Lead, with the Trust funding her teaching qualification.

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