2021-05-31-accounts

Ruislip Rangers Youth Football Club Annual Report and Accounts: 2020/21

Ruislip Rangers Youth Football Club

This trustee report accompanies the financial accounts to form the third annual report for the Club since being awarded charity status in September 2016. The club has prepared receipts and payments accounts. The Youth Football Club had an income of £121,969 in the year to 31[st] May 2021 and is eligible for independent examination. An independent examination has been carried out by Kevin Belton, who is independent of the youth football club and has the necessary knowledge and experience.

(Publication CC32 – Independent Examination of Charity Accounts – provides further examples of the content of an independent examiner’s report. Reporting Public Benefit - This also addresses the new public benefit reporting requirements that applies to all charities reporting for financial years beginning on or after 1 April 2008.)

As a small charity, below the Charities Act’s audit threshold, the report focuses on the main activities undertaken by the charity to further its charitable purposes for the public benefit. The annual report specifically addresses the two key principles by which we will assess public benefit:

• 1) There must be an identifiable benefit or benefits – the trustees explained the activities and benefits which flow from them to the community;

• 2) Benefit must be to the public, or a section of the public – the trustees explain their commitment to enable as many people as possible to play football and become part of the community. In this example additional voluntary information is provided about the contribution made by volunteers.

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Statement of Assets and Liabilities

The statement of assets and liabilities includes only cash at bank held in three accounts – Boys, Girls and Reserve.

Aim and purposes

Ruislip Rangers Football Club has the responsibility of

• (a) to advance the amateur sport of association football.

• (b) to promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for playing association football (facilities means land, buildings, equipment and organising football activities).

• (c) to provide and assist in providing facilities for sport, recreation and other leisure time occupation of people who have need of such facilities because of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving their conditions of life.

• (d) to advance the education of children and young people whether or not undergoing formal education.

Objectives and Activities

The football club is committed to enabling as many young people as possible to play football. Established in 1969, we are the largest Youth Football Club in Middlesex with over 700 players and over 60 teams. Of those, eleven are girls’ teams and five are pan disability teams.

Our boys and girls play in leagues in London, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire.

• We are an FA Charter Standard Club and are affiliated to Middlesex FA.

• We are a Charity and our Registered Charity number is 1169522

• Our Club Sponsors were Drywall Solutions

• We are The FA’s official provider of ball boys for their games at Wembley Stadium

• We have a popular club mascot called Woody

• We are a Partner Club of QPR and Wycombe Wanderers.

Achievements and Performance Honours 2020/21

Some leagues were voided as the pandemic disrupted most of the season. In those that weren’t our Under 17 Girls team became Capital Girls League Division 2 Champions and our Under 16 Blues team were WSBMFL Division 1 Champions.

Financial Review

Total receipts on unrestricted funds were £121,969 of which £78,727 was subscription income allocated to help allow 60+ teams play football during the last year.

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Reserves policy

It is Ruislip Rangers FC policy to maintain a balance on unrestricted funds (if possible), which equates to at least three months unrestricted payments, equivalent to £5,000, to cover emergency situations that may arise from time to time. The balance of £5,025 held on unrestricted funds, after designations, at the year-end matched this target.

Volunteers

We would like to thank all the volunteers who work so hard to make our club the lively and vibrant community it is. In particular, we want to mention our secretary, Steve Roche who has worked so tirelessly on our behalf; Mark Hollinrake who has helped us all to understand the club’s accounts and its finances, and all the other members of the committee for their valuable contribution to our football club and for keeping the club running.

Structure, governance and management

The method of appointment of Ruislip Football club members is set out in the clubs constitution. The membership of the club consists of the committee members elected at each AGM. All those young people who attend our training sessions and play in league games are subscribed and members registered on the Got Football website. The committee members are responsible for making decisions on all matters of general concern and importance to the club including deciding on how the funds of the club are to be spent. The full committee met five times during the year with an average level of attendance of 85%. Administrative information Ruislip Rangers Football Club is situated on Kings College, Ruislip. It shares clubhouse facilities with Ruislip Cricket Club. The correspondence address is c/o Ruislip Cricket Club.

The RRFC is a chartered standard football association youth football club with charity status since September 2016. Registration with the Charity Commission. Registered Charity Number - 1169522

Committee members who have served from 1st June 2020 until 31 May 2021 include:

• Ben Wong (Chair)

• Ben Ardouin (Vice Chair)

• Steve Roche (Secretary)

• Mark Hollinrake (Treasurer)

• Sean Brosnan (Welfare Officer)

• Ricky Smith (Head of Disability Section)

• Nick Bishop (Fixtures Secretary)

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RUISLIP FOOTBALL CLUB FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2021

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NOTES: 1. The financial statements of the PCC have been prepared in accordance with the Accounting Regulations 2006 using the Receipts & Payments basis.

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Independent Examiner’s Report to the trustees/members of Ruislip Rangers Football Club

I report on the accounts for the year ended 31[st] May 2021 which are set out above

Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the Act)) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to:

Examine the accounts (under section 43 of the Act), to follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 43(7)(b) of the Act), and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.

Basis of independent examiner’s report

My examination was carried out in accordance with General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

Independent examiner's statement

In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention:

1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements: i) to keep accounting records in accordance with section 41 of the Act; and ii) to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the 1993 Act; have not been met; or

2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

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Kevin Belton FCA - ICAEW member no. 7308723