Bradford Disability Football Club
Charity number 1158017
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2025
Bradford Disability Football Club
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2025
| 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 2025
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: Name Position Dates Paul Squires President Steven Parr Chair Andrew Clayton Secretary Kenneth Knights Treasurer Jayne Winn Fundraising Officer Sandra Stead Tracy Cliffe Deborah Parnaby Steve Parnaby Gillian Whittle Mark Lightowler Katrina Butler Allan Watt Appointed 22 September 2024 Jonathan Gibson Appointed 22 September 2024 Charity number 1158017 Registered in England and Wales Registered and principal address Bankers 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 2025
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. To further to strengthen the Group we have appointed two new Trustees, Alan Watt whose role is to support with social trips / events, and John Gibson who will be responsible for improving communication between the club, members, parents, carers and guardians.
As everyone associated with BDFC will know our ethos is to create a professional environment where our players are encouraged to experiment, be creative and have no fear of failure in order to develop their technique and decision making. Our club is where players are safe, are learning and gaining knowledge and experiences, whilst having fun in a positive, family friendly setting. Unfortunately, this year trustees have had to spend a significant amount of their personal time to deal with a small number of our membership whose behaviour has fallen significantly short of our high standards. We will continue to take difficult decisions with a minority who have a negative impact on the majority.
Another 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 continued to arranged both small and large social events available to all members generously subsidised by the club.
The Club continues to grow with over 100 members, an increase of 7% in the past twelve months. We have been informed by the FA that of their 300 FA accredited registered disability members, 90 of these (30%) were BDFC members, the club are proud of this representation.
In the capable hands of our head Coach, we continue to invest in the development of all of our members which is further demonstrated with our appointment of Hollie Whittaker who joins Indy’s excellent team of paid coaches.
We continue to strengthen our partnership with the WRCFA (West Riding County Football Association) who have invited us to take part in a project to develop an FA accredited Strategic Document which, when complete, may further support us with fundraising and enable the club to demonstrate tangible value we offer to the local community. In addition, the FA are currently supporting us to identify opportunities to better transition junior members to the next level in a safe and enjoyable way. We will also need to rely on members, parents, carers and guardians to support us with this challenging work.
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Bradford Disability Football Club
Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2025
Achievements and performance continued
We also continue to identify opportunities for members to be involved in the running of the club. This includes members being encouraged to use the Members Committee to have their say on issues. A great example of this was that members designed the new club kit for 2024/2025. Also, members Brooke and McKenzie are now involved in the writing of our monthly Newsletter.
The club continues to be proud of our charitable status, we operate professionally and provide members with the opportunity to train in first class facilities despite ongoing challenges with revenue generation. We must therefore continue to thank all of those who help to keep the club financially stable which includes our funders which include The National Lottery, The Postcode Neighbourhood Trust, The Wharfedale Foundation and Sovereign Health Care. All trustees support with club funding and cost management but special thanks should go to Jayne Winn who very successfully coordinates all club sponsorship and grant applications.
I am pleased to report that the flexible method of paying subs, introduced las year has continued to be successful whilst also rewarding regular attendance.
Once again, we hosted our very successful annual tournament in September 2024 with teams taking part from across the country, we believe this is one of the largest and best organised disability football tournaments in the county.
Finally, on behalf of the Trustees we would like to thank members, carers, parents, guardians and volunteers for all their support throughout the past year as we look forward to another successful year in 2025.
Financial review
The net receipts for the year were £20,318, including net receipts of £11,414 on unrestricted funds and net receipts of £8,904 on restricted funds.
Reserves policy
The charity's free reserves, at the year end were £47,697.
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.
Approved by the board of trustees on 29/10/25
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 2025, 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
29/10/25
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 2025
| Notes 2025 Unrestricted funds £ Receipts Grants and donations (2) 12,317 Fundraising and sponsorship 3,892 Memberships and subscriptions 17,652 Clothing and kit sales 2,398 Trips and events 9,982 Bank interest 120 Total receipts 46,361 Payments Clothing and kit costs 6,196 Coaching costs 1,932 Equipment 55 Marketing 350 Match fees 1,175 Independent examination 660 Social events 5,228 Administration and office costs 332 Trip costs 17,030 Training 10 Venue hire 50 Tournament costs 1,731 Volunteer expenses - Bank charges 27 Fundraising costs 107 Insurance 64 Total payments 34,947 Net receipts / (payments) 11,414 Fund balances brought forward 36,283 Fund balances carried forward (3) 47,697 |
2025 Restricted funds £ 27,300 - - - - - 27,300 550 8,801 - 75 - - - - 600 - 7,070 1,000 - - - 300 18,396 8,904 4,202 13,106 |
2025 Total funds £ 39,617 3,892 17,652 2,398 9,982 120 73,661 6,746 10,733 55 425 1,175 660 5,228 332 17,630 10 7,120 2,731 - 27 107 364 53,343 20,318 40,485 60,803 |
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 |
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Bradford Disability Football Club Statement of assets and liabilities
| as at 31 March 2025 2025 Unrestricted £ Cash funds Cash at bank 47,697 Cash in hand - Total cash funds 47,697 Liabilities Accruals |
2025 Restricted £ 13,106 - 13,106 |
2025 Total £ 60,803 - 60,803 2025 £ 660 660 |
2024 Total £ 40,415 70 40,485 |
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The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 29/10/25
Ken Knights (Trustee)
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Bradford Disability Football Club
Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2025
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 2025
| 2 Grants and donations The National Lottery Postcode Neighbourhood Trust The Wharfedale Foundation Sovereign Healthcare Co-op Foundation Give Bradford Other donations 3 Restricted funds Bradford Youth Fund Co-op Local Community Fund Sovereign Healthcare The National Lottery The Wharfedale Foundation |
Balance b/f £ 3,290 912 - - - 4,202 |
2025 Unrestricted funds £ - 10,000 - - - - 2,317 12,317 Incoming £ - - 2,500 19,800 5,000 27,300 |
2025 Restricted funds £ 19,800 - 5,000 2,500 - - - 27,300 Outgoing £ 3,290 912 2,500 9,128 2,566 18,396 |
2025 Total funds £ 19,800 10,000 5,000 2,500 - - 2,317 39,617 Transfers £ - - - - - - |
2024 Total funds £ - - - - 2,787 6,690 2,293 11,770 Balance c/f £ - - - 10,672 2,434 13,106 |
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Fund name
Purpose of restriction
Bradford Youth Fund Towards core costs. Co-op Local Community Fund Towards cost of hiring venue for delivering weekly football sessions. Sovereign Healthcare Towards venue hire. The National Lottery Towards venue hire & sessional workers. The Wharfedale Foundation Towards venue hire & sessional workers.
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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