CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Trustees. Annual Report for the period From 1 May 2023 to 30 Aprll 2024 Char5ty name: Brentwood Crynmunity Foolball Alliance Youth League Charbty registration number: 1175432 Charity Address: Mount Maskall Cottage, Generab Lane. Boreham, Chelmsford. EMox. CM3 3HW Objectives and Actlvltl88 The advancement of amateur SF*Jt for the public benefft by offering spOrt￿g oppNtunities (particularly youth ft)otball) lo young peoth ¥￿thin 0 2&rnile radi￿ of the 8orough of Br6nlwc￿d. When planning our League activities for the year. the Trustees have ¢￿s￿lered the Commission's guKlance on public benefft. We seek to redistribute any spare lunds bxk to membw dub6 by keeping fee8 low and via the introduction of avards during the season. All Commlttee members volunteef their twne to enable the Lwue to run snx)othty. Achlevements and Performanco Th8 League now wovkJ88 football all the age groups. In the n(XH￿P￿tIt1ye agg groupB, the League ran festNals for U7. league games for U7 to U8 and league and cup games for U9 to U11. For th8 competitiv 8ge groups the League provbjed Leagues and cups for U12 to U18. Also, in li￿ wrth the FA apwoved policy, the League conlinues to allow Girts leams to a year to enable player development. Thls option was tsken up by over 80 all Girb teams. The league ¢ontinue8 to offer a ti8red meM1￿ShIp stnKturn to ka8p Member c(th d(Mn altlwh increasing volumes of teams and the volume of cup and trophy cc*npekns Pfo¥thJ in the season means the tired cost structhre 18 always being reasses8&I. Alongside thbs. the League offers the fvnclionalty for ￿K￿petIt￿￿ teams to move mid-8ea8on to ensure teams play at th￿r correLt ats'lty level arKI t￿8 can be added to the nOn￿￿mpetitive age groups during the season. This in season realignment is well r&ei¥ed ty the member clubs. Folknwng a successful trial and lo better a￿9$ the alocakn where twms had M￿ed from sdie to 11-a•side. the League ran rnini U13 lea9￿ for 6 weeks. After that and based on results the U13 divisions were est*Aished. From March the addf(ional U11 Trophy mwii were Nn agan. This was to help managers in the transition to completing matchday retur￿ for fdknymng seasfm. The league ha$ Continued to bok to ￿ganISe and run courses for the benefft of its member dubs, bJl this has not been as successful a5 in wevths years. In this arena rt continues to work closely with the Essex FA. 8 in the previous seasons the League (￿N)UeS to fund SwxtSm￿1p and Referee Award$ and introduced a new Club Admin Award. The League c(Yrtinues to subscribe to the HelpWrthlT website. Here Clubs each have their (m￿ &lmin portal where they manage their Club data and the League also has an admin Ixylal to cover all the League Imin. These continue to greatty assist with muttiple administrative ta¥ks and save twne and effcrt. The discipline committee met monthty to decide on the Outco￿ of al *ue rule b￿hes. ￿ring the $ea$on several personal hearings V4we requested and ￿ld. There have again been some negatives during the season. Firstty. several officers habing joined at the nor competrtive age group left very earty on which wt increased p￿SSUre on the League Secretsry and other fixture Secretaries. This led to the League S• announcing that he wiu stand dcwn at the AGM in June. As in previous years, p￿r behaV#￿r both on and off the fi8kl of p*, resulted in match abandonments. Financial Review Wtlh the year-end ending one month before the end of the season, the aco)unts income and costs are not truky representative oflhe league season ￿[1￿. This was discussed at a Trustees meeting where oposal to change the year end date to 30 June was subrnitt￿ and agreed. This 18 sutyect to ratification by the Charities Commission. A new incorne elernent in the sea80n the wrtroduction of a New £50 Member Club kx)Thl. This wa8 intrcrtluced due to prior season issues wrth new clubs. As this is repayable rt is claSsrf￿ as restricted. As there has been limited requests from Memter Clubs to utilise the r8stricted CYFL fund this fund pot has been the subject of Trustee reviews and a pLan has tN8en for implementation from next 8ea80n. This will need to be ratif*d by the League manag8Th￿rt Committee at the slart of next season. The League continues to have a 9￿j rewrt8kn(￿ with existing member Clubs and continues to attract nv members. From an income per$￿tive this W to an inmse of 12% in team numbers. This in tum drove 42% increase in the ￿mberShP fee income to £37.8k. Cc4)tinuing poor admin by many team managers increased the fines to £4.5k with Cup Finals att8rKlance addiw an addrtKxwI £4.2k. Other income wa8 bank interest £0.9k and £0.9 for Bonds. Due to the demand on vclunteer ts'me and the lo918tk8 of multlplo divi5￿81 cup the decith was taken by the Managemerrt C(Mnmittee to onty run bi4Msional cup finals. This resutted in kxier costs than expected with only £17.4k being Spent for the 34 Cup Finals. These ran over a 44￿ak perlod across 3 main sites. Costs for League trophies and the U11 Trophy Event £8.8k. The upgrade to the Festival book¥￿ website went ahead and so far £4k has been spent. Further costs are expected for the fdlchving year as the system enhancement has been fflcye difficult to Implement than expected. The provlsh)n of futsal contlnuèj to ￿ on hokl. year.end creditors are estlmated at £0.5k 88 most Cxxts **re invoiced and pa￿ by 30 April. Structure. Governance and Management The League is governed by a Charilable I￿orp¢￿* Orw￿t￿)n conStibJt￿ whth s* out the selection process for its Tnths. Names of tho charity truste￿ who m*wJe the charfty Nam¢ of p•rnon lor body) entlll•d to •ppoint truBkno Of •n Trn•tse naTh Offi￿111 ary) D*&•• •¢tsd rfnotfor whol• yMr John Meates Peter Hockley Mark Davidson Laurence Bough Michael Jackson Secretary The impact of the League Secretary announcing he would step dtr*n at the AGM meant the Trustees had to assess the best way f0Th￿rd to continue to FrnKle the same lever of Ser¥￿e to tts Membw Clubs. To assist in this process the County FA was contact&J. Folknving this the Lwue was added to the FA panel whlch allows 20 free hours of FA consuttancy co¥eriThJ a yew. FOlkn￿n9 several of thg consuhancy meetings a proposal was presented to the Trustees to have a paK1 •Jmlnistrative empk)yee under Rule 4.4. Two options are now under consider?￿n.. a ¢￿tract of ampbyment including runnlng a payroll and pension or a yeaty statement ofworks for a ￿ntr￿tor. Fund8 held as custodian trustees on behalf of others Currently Ihere are two ComFXrting Laptops vthlch have been purth88ed by the Leagu8 and are held by the ft)Ilowing League OffKers: Laurence Bough RegiStrat￿n Secretary and Tr￿urer Stephen Hull Fixture Secretary These were purchased to assist in the voluntary roles being F*rf0m￿. They remain the prop8ty of the League. Declaratlon8 The trustees declare thal tlw l*ve ap1K0￿1 the tru*ees' report above. Signed on ￿hall of the charty's trustees. Signatureslsl Full namesls) Position {e.g. Secretary,Chair, etc) Mark Davidson Mike Jacksc Trustee Trustee 3QJune 2024 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES 1175432 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a Forth8 wlod To Section A Receipts and payments furm Total lurK15 L*•ty￿r Al R8c81 F• 121 tjher 4139 CYFL AR) 02 PR¢h & Cup FihWT CIFL 104 A4 Asset and InYestm•ni urchas 80• tsb Sub tot•1 31752 31752 22382 Pl•tofrne8lpW(P•TrTnwIts) A6Tr8n8fers IJel*wn fvb¥l• A6 Cash fundB JastyearwNI Ca$h fvn