A Premier League football club in north London with a large modern stadium and a training centre in Enfield, plus a community charity, Spurs in the Community, serving four London boroughs.
Tottenham Hotspur is a professional football club in north London. It plays at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, which opened in 2019 on the site of the old White Hart Lane and holds about 62,850 people. Its training centre is on Hotspur Way in Bulls Cross, Enfield: a 77-acre site that opened in 2012 with 15 grass pitches, artificial pitches, gyms, medical areas and classrooms for academy players. Behind the teams there is a large organisation that runs the stadium, the training site, supporter services and a community charity.
The club was formed on 5 September 1882 as Hotspur Football Club by a group of schoolboys led by Bobby Buckle, and became Tottenham Hotspur in April 1884. The name comes from Harry Hotspur, linked to the Northumberland family after whom Northumberland Park was named. Its badge is a cockerel standing on a football, with the motto "Audere est Facere", which means "to dare is to do". It was the first club to win the League and FA Cup Double in the 20th century, in 1960-61. We could not read a club mission statement. Its charity says its core belief is "to care is to do".
Everything is in London. The stadium and the training centre are in north London, and the charity is based at Percy House, close to the stadium's north-west corner. Spurs in the Community, which was called the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation until it changed its operating name in August 2026, serves Haringey, Enfield, Barnet and Waltham Forest. It reports that last year over 13,000 people took part in more than 10,500 hours of activities. The club also sponsors the London Academy of Excellence Tottenham, a sixth form that Ofsted rated Outstanding in 2022.
On people and culture, the charity's chief executive, Marc Leckie, says that caring means "showing up, listening, building trust and taking action". The charity's website says "diversity is our strength and inclusivity is our guiding principle", and it works with groups such as children in care, people leaving the criminal justice system, students at risk of exclusion and people recovering from serious illness. Its work is organised under three pillars: Stronger Communities, Stronger Lives and Stronger Futures. It was launched at 10 Downing Street in February 2007 after community work started in 2006 with Haringey Council. These are the organisation's own claims.
The roles in a club like this are wide. The charity's programme areas include health and wellbeing, community outreach, education, and employment and skills, which means youth workers, coaches, teachers and employability advisers. The club side needs academy and sports science staff, stadium operations, safety and stewarding teams, catering, retail, marketing and finance. The sources we read do not give numbers for staff, so we cannot say how many people work there. The club's website is the place to check current openings.
Website: www.tottenhamhotspur.com
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