Charity number 1158017
Bradford Disability Football Club
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2024
Bradford Disability Football Club
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2024
| Contents | Page |
|---|---|
| Trustees' report | 2 to 4 |
| Examiner's report | 5 |
| Receipts and payments account | 6 |
| Statement of assets and liabilities | 7 |
| Notes to the accounts | 8 to 9 |
Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO
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Bradford Disability Football Club
Trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2024
Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors
| The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: | The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: | The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Position | Dates |
| Paul Squires | President | |
| Steve Parr | Chair | |
| Lindsay Richardson | Vice-chair | Resigned 30 April 2023 |
| Andrew Clayton | Secretary | |
| Kenneth Knights | Treasurer | |
| Jayne Winn | Fundraising Officer | |
| Elizabeth Robinson | Welfare Officer | Resigned 30 April 2023 |
| Sandra Stead | ||
| Tracy Cliffe | ||
| Deborah Parnaby | ||
| Steve Parnaby | ||
| Gillian Whittle | ||
| Mark Lightowler | ||
| Katrina Butler | Appointed 30 April 2023 | |
| Amanda Wilson | Appointed 30 April 2023, resigned 1 Aug | |
| 2023 | ||
| Charity number | 1158017 | Registered in England and Wales |
| Registered and principal addreBankers | ||
| 7 Chapel Close | HSBC | Santander |
| Crossroads | PO Box 45 | Santander Business Banking Operations |
| Keighley | 47 Market Street | Sunderland |
| BD22 9AD | Bradford | SR43 4FW |
| BD1 1LW |
Independent examiner
Katy Sargeant ACA West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
Structure, governance and management
The charity is governed by a constitution adopted on 1 January 2001 and as amended 23 May 2014.
Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees
The trustees of the charity are appointed by the members at the AGM.
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Bradford Disability Football Club
Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2024
Objectives and activities
The charity's objects
To relieve the charitable needs of disabled people in particular but not exclusively by the provision of facilities for playing football.
The charity's main activities
The current activities of Bradford Disability Football Club (BDFC) are to pursue, promote and implement opportunities for disabled people in football by:
Actively increasing the number of disabled people playing football.
Actively promote awareness of equality.
Link with current local and national initiatives.
Provide advice and assistance to other potential partners.
Raise the profile of disabled football.
Public benefit statement
In setting our objectives and planning our activities our Trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit.
Achievements and performance
Firstly, I would like to thank our Trustees who volunteer their services throughout the year, often their respective contributions go on behind the scenes and can easily go unnoticed but without these contributions BDFC would simply not exist.
In May 2023 BDFC faced the biggest challenge in its history. For many years the club has been based at Trinity College in Bradford where we have generally had a good relationship with college Trustees. In recent years the college have invested in improving facilities and as the club has benefitted, we have made several offers to partner with the college to apply for grants, we have also offered to increase our rent in line with inflation, but the college have always refused to accept our offers. We were therefore astonished to receive a letter advising us that the college intended to increase our annual rent from £2,004 a year to £18,432. Following lengthy negotiations, we settled on a new annual rent of £7,500. Trustees did a great job of finding new income generation activities which I am pleased to report has restabilised the club.
Faced with the challenge mentioned above the club arranged to meet members, parents, guardians, carers etc to develop a fundraising strategy which has been very successful in everyone pulling together to generate additional income, activities included sponsored walk, bucket collection, parent donations, tuck shop. Also, our fundraising lead and Trustee Jayne Winn has again been very proactive and successfully achieved huge grants on behalf of the club.
It’s been another good year for the club in terms growing membership in particular that of our junior cohort, special thanks must go to Trustees Steve and Debbie Parnaby for their hard work, obviously growing our junior membership ensures the future of the club.
A key part of the club ethos is to support the social development of our members and I am pleased to report that in the past twelve months we have arranged both small social events plus and two residential trips available to all members generously subsidised by the club.
For some time, the club has been investigating ways to make membership even more affordable, reward regular attendance and simplify the administrative burden of collecting weekly cash subs from members. We recently rolled out a new method of payment where members pay subs in advance at specific periods during the year by bank transfer. The new payment method has proved to be very successful.
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Bradford Disability Football Club
Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2024
Achievements and performance continued
Once again, we hosted our very successful annual tournament in September 2023 with over sixty teams taking part from across the country, we believe this is now one of the largest disability football tournaments in the county.
Financial review
The net payments for the year were £1,441, including net payments of £4,063 on unrestricted funds and net receipts of £2,622 on restricted funds.
Reserves policy
The charity's free reserves, at the year end were £36,283.
The trustees review the reserves level in conjunction with the annual events and expected income and expenditure for the year to ascertain that there is sufficient unrestricted funds to ensure continuity of service to the members, six months running costs are retained in reserve as a minimum. Based on the anticipated 24/25 expenditure, this would be equivalent to approximately £27,500.
Trustees are aware the reserves are currently in excess of the minimum, however as a result of the increased venue hire costs this year, they are happy with the level of reserves and continue to actively seek further funding opportunities.
Approved by the board of trustees on 22/9/2024
Ken Knights (Trustee)
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Bradford Disability Football Club
Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Bradford Disability Football Club
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2024, which are set out on pages 6 to 9.
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent examiner's statement
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 2 the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Katy Sargeant ACA
4/10/24
West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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Bradford Disability Football Club
Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 March 2024
| Notes 2024 Unrestricted funds £ Receipts Grants and donations (2) 2,293 Fundraising and sponsorship 5,730 Memberships and subscriptions 7,941 Clothing and kit sales 1,287 Trips and events 21,395 Bank interest 57 Total receipts 38,703 Payments Clothing and kit costs 3,546 Coaching costs 8,486 Equipment 145 Marketing 473 Match fees 969 Independent examination 594 Social events 8,430 Administration and office costs 440 Trip costs 17,298 Training 115 Venue hire (560) Tournament costs 2,323 Volunteer expenses 252 Bank charges 68 Fundraising costs 187 Total payments 42,766 Net receipts / (payments) (4,063) Fund balances brought forward 40,346 Fund balances carried forward (3) 36,283 |
2024 Restricted funds £ 9,477 - - - - - 9,477 - 2,075 - 75 - - - - - - 4,705 - - - - 6,855 2,622 1,580 4,202 |
2024 Total funds £ 11,770 5,730 7,941 1,287 21,395 57 48,180 3,546 10,561 145 548 969 594 8,430 440 17,298 115 4,145 2,323 252 68 187 49,621 (1,441) 41,926 40,485 |
2023 Total funds £ 15,378 2,957 8,849 256 9,722 14 37,176 1,947 7,790 - 308 695 360 7,988 750 7,516 - 2,269 3,305 108 109 - 33,145 4,031 37,895 41,926 |
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Bradford Disability Football Club Statement of assets and liabilities
| as at 31 March 2024 2024 Unrestricted £ Cash funds Cash at bank 36,213 Cash in hand 70 Total cash funds 36,283 Debtors and prepayments Prepayments Liabilities Accruals Deferred income |
2024 Restricted £ 4,202 - 4,202 |
2024 Total £ 40,415 70 40,485 2024 £ 650 650 2024 £ 660 6,870 7,530 |
2023 Total £ 41,676 250 41,926 |
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The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 22/9/2024
Ken Knights (Trustee)
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Bradford Disability Football Club
Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2024
1 Accounting policies
Basis of accounting
The trustees have taken advantage of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis.
There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year.
No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.
Taxation
As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
Fund accounting
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
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Bradford Disability Football Club
Notes to the accounts continued
for the year ended 31 March 2024
| 2 Grants and donations Co-op Foundation Give Bradford Scope Tony Rampton Trust Locala Other donations 3 Restricted funds Sovereign Healthcare Bradford Youth Fund Coop Local Community Fund Fund name Sovereign Healthcare Bradford Youth Fund Co-op Local Community Fund |
2024 2024 2024 2023 Unrestricted Restricted Total Total funds funds funds funds £ £ £ £ - 2,787 2,787 - - 6,690 6,690 - - - - 10,444 - - - 1,750 - - - 1,500 2,293 - 2,293 1,684 2,293 9,477 11,770 15,378 Balance b/f Incoming Outgoing Transfers Balance c/f £ £ £ £ £ 1,580 - 1,580 - - - 6,690 3,400 - 3,290 - 2,787 1,875 - 912 1,580 9,477 6,855 - 4,202 Purpose of restriction Towards the costs of venue hire. Towards core costs. Towards cost of hiring venue for delivering weekly football sessions. |
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4 Related party transactions
Trustee expenses
No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.
Trustee remuneration and benefits
No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
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