## 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|
|---|---|---|---|
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|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
## **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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