Foundation announces £13.2 million generated in social value

Bradford City AFC and its charitable arm, Bradford City FC Community Foundation, are delighted to announce that they have generated £13.2 million pounds of social value, as has been reported in the EFL and EFL in the Community’s ‘Measuring the Impact of EFL Clubs in the Community’ report.

The report highlights not just the Foundation and the club’s fiscal impact in their community, but participation numbers and reach between 2022 and 2024. In the reporting period, the Foundation delivered over 58,000 hours of social support delivery, which is five times the national average, with 23,600 participants engaged in the Foundation’s projects in 2023/24 alone, which is nearly 10,000 participants higher than the national average.

Ian Ormondroyd, Foundation CEO, said: “We are delighted with the findings of the report, and to be able to highlight the impact our organisation has in the city of Bradford. Numbers never tell the whole story, but we can now quantify our benefit to our community, to public services, to local authorities and to the people of Bradford. Being able to signify our fiscal social value will only help us to continue to grow. I am very proud of our team, who continue to deliver for the people of our city in a way which manifestly sets them amongst the largest, best funded and most well-resourced club community organisations in the country.”

Social value is the estimated monetary value of the Foundation’s social impact. It covers the economic, social, and environmental outcomes of the charity's work.

The Foundation’s social value has been broken down into four outcome pillars, which outline the areas of social outreach and public work it delivers in:

£1.4 million comes from outcomes relating to education, training and employment, including the Foundation’s Football and Education programme.

£4 million comes from community and social outcomes, including the Foundation’s social intervention work in schools and the wider community, including its newly published Positive Activities Map and its new partnership with the Bradford Children and Families Trust, supporting dads and male carers in the community.

£6.8 million coming from mental health, which includes the Foundation’s work with local mental health services including Mind Bradford and Andy’s Man Club.

£915,000 comes from savings and contributions associated with physical health, including the Foundation’s newly partnered Walking Football team, and the football camps it runs every half-term.