A letter from Charlie Hyman, Founder & CEO
Bloomsbury Football Foundation is building something rare: a proven model with the momentum and ambition to become the UK’s next major national charity, improving young people’s health, wellbeing and life chances. We are now looking for an exceptional Chair of Trustees to help lead that journey.
Bloomsbury is one of the fastest growing youth social mobility charities in the UK, and this is a role for someone with outstanding experience of scaling organisations – bringing strategic clarity, high standards, and the judgement to help a mission-led organisation grow quickly while strengthening quality, culture and impact.
Our approach is simple and powerful: we repurpose football – the nation’s game, woven into the fabric of British life – as a low-cost, non-clinical, preventative vehicle for social mobility. In a digital age where too many young people are growing up with reduced real-world connection, football offers a uniquely compelling way to bring young people together in person, build trust, and create belonging. It is also one of the great unifiers in our society – strengthening community cohesion and giving young people a shared language, identity and purpose.
From a standing start just a few years ago, we now support over 6,500 young people every week in some of London’s most deprived communities – including 2,300 girls weekly, making us the largest charitable provider improving health and life outcomes for girls through football in the country.
You would be joining a strong, committed Board of Trustees with senior leaders across finance, legal, charity, marketing and technology. As Chair, you would have real scope to shape our next phase of growth and ensure we have the governance and leadership capacity needed for national scale.
If this opportunity resonates, please do get in touch for a confidential conversation to learn more about what the role involves and the impact your leadership could help unlock.
Charlie Hyman
Founder & CEO
Bloomsbury Football Foundation