CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGIAND AND WALES Trustees, Annual Report for the period From l May 2024 to 30 April 2025 Charity name: Brentwood Communlty Football Alllance Youth Loague Charlty rogtratIOn number. 1175432 Charity Address: Mount Maskall Cottage. Generals Lane. Boreham. Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 3HW Objectlves and Activities The advancement of amaleur sport for the publ berEfrt by offering OPPOrtunitie8 (pariicularly youth football) to young peopb wthin a 2&mile rJius of the Borough of B n)d. When planning our League &i1vit8 for the year, the Tntstees have ccmswJer41 the Commwion's guidance on publi¢ benefit. We seek to redistribute any spare fvnds bxk to memtr club$ by keeping fees low and via th6 intrluCtion of 8wards durirvJ the season. All Committea members volunteer their time to enable the League to run Smoothly. Achlevemonts and Perfonnance The League contsnues to provid8 football for all the age groups. In the nonvcompdrtNe age groups, the League ran festNals for U7, lea9 games for U7 to U8 and league and cup games for U9 to U11. For the competitive age groups the League provthd Lea9 aThJ cups for U12 to U18. Also. in line with the FA approved polw, the League continues to allow Girls teams to play down a year to enable player development. This optn was taken up by over 100 all Girfs teams representing 9% of teams runnlng in the League. This Season also saw the League accept the first rlOdiverse team inlo a mainstream Youth League- AFC BrenlwoLXI. The league continu88 to offw a t18[1 mwnbership structure to keep member costs dtr•m atthough increasing volumes of teams and the volume of cup and trophy CCAnWitions provKled in the season means the tired cost slwdure aw8 being reasseswj. Alongside this. the League offers the nlOnalty for nonThcompetilive teams to move mid-season to ensure teams play at their Correct abilty level and new teams can be added to the non-competrtive age groups during the season. This in Season realignment is well [eNed by the member clubs. The League continued it's wev$ year poly of starbng the U13 Age Group in mini league allowing a better as$essmenl of vth8t division81 alloca11¢ surted them as fv transitioned from 9v9 to 11 vl1. From January the addition81 U11 Trophy minl leagues were run again atthough this was severe interrupled by the weather. The league has continued to look to anise and fun courses for the benefft of its member dubs. but this has not t>een as successful as in previous years. In this arena it cuttinues to work cthely with the Essex FA. As in the previous seasons the League conlinues to fund awards for Sportsmanship. Referee and Club Admin.
The League continues to subscribe to the HelpWrthlT website. Here Clubs have their ovén admin tortal where they manage their Club data and the League also has an admin portal to cover all the League min. These continue to great asstst wilh mulb.ple lminiStratiVe tasks and save time and eff(xt. The discipline CoMmee met monthty to deade on the outcome of all league rule breaches dealing with over 900. During the season several personal hearings were also requested and held. Following ihe increase in discipline cases the League called an SGM in October and introduced some new policies surrounding matchday officials photo IDS and set up a dis¢ipbne dashtx)ard. These will now be standard going forward. As in pYevK)us years. poor behaviour both on and off the fld of play, resulted iri match mulliple abandonments. The FA syslems continue to prowde challenges especially the Malchday App and the League raised a ticket wrth Ihe FA to highlight a common issue of correctly recording player appearances. The League utilised the 20 free hours of FA consuliancy over the season looking at paJ empbDyees: Full Time system utilisation and league polices, Financial Review Wrth the year-end ending one month before th8 end of the s8ason, the accounts income and costs are not truly representativ8 of the league true season posrtion. This was discussed at a Trustees meeting where a prowsal to change the year end date to 31 May w8$ agreed. Thts is subject to ralifution by the Charities Commission. Due to the continuing growth ol the League a paKI Admin Officer was appointed. This is on the basis of 8 yeady statement of works for a contractOT. whh has been rO4Jn8d off for Season 25126. This contributed £3.9k of new cost8 for the year. The League have also reviewed the overall financial pOSrti¢ and nv•V have 3 $trted funds setup- a new League dissolution fund and the existing Repayable Bonds fund and orvJinal CYFL merger development fund. The Trustee5 ntInUe to revithv how best to ulilise the CYFL merger fund in conjunction wrth celebrating the 10 Year anniversary of the League The Trustees agreed lo the increase in the Sportsmanship Award parameters to 10 leams £100 per age group. This and the other awards have an outstanding value of £15k offsel by £2k of sronsorship. The League continues to h8ve a gcth reputalion with existing member Clubs and continues to attract new members. From a membership perspedNe this l&J to an increase of 9% in team numbers. Desprte this membership fée income reduced by £4.4k as team rates were flexed. Continuing poor admin by many team managers increased thé fines lo £8k up almost 80% on the prior season. Cup Finals attendance added an additional £7k and a new Sponsorship partner saw another £1k. Bank interest was relatNely flat at £1.4k. As In Ihe previous season the League ran bdiVISiOnal eup final$ and has invested in new equipment to ensure a professional image at each final. Due to this the League now also hi a storage unit. This added one off costs of £6k in the season. Atthough overall Cup Final costs appear Sthver at £9.3k, there are an eslimaled £10.1 k of costs outstanding. The cup ffinals ran over a ¢Yoek period across 4 srtes. The U11 Trophy Event is the onty costs incurred so far wtth an estimated League Trophy and Medals cost of £6.4k outstanding. The upgrade to the Festival bcoking website is conlinuin9 With another £3k swnt. Further costs are anticipated for the following year as the system enhancement has been more difficult to implement than èxpected and the impending intrcKluctM of the FA FutureFit strategy Season 25126 impacting U7 football. There is £1 k of costs oulstanding based on work camed out so far and not billed. Based on the above the yearnd credOrS have tRen estimated at £32.5k with debtors at £8.Sk (Fines £1.5, Cup Final Attendance receipts $plit £4k and Swn$ship £3kl.
Structure, Govemance and Management The League is governed by a Charitable Iled OiwisalioTr constilutK)n seis out the seleciion pro55 for its Trustees. Namos of the charity trustees WI managg th* ¢harity Namo of pornon lor boltyl entitled to appoint truslv• Ilf Tru•tse n•m Offi111 any) D•ts• a¢i•d rf notfor whol• y•ar John Meates Chairman Peter Hockley Mark Davidson Laurence Bough Michael Jackson Secretary Funds hold as custodian truste88 on behalf of othern Currenlty there are ts¥0 Cornputing Laptops whi¢h have been purchased by the League and are held by the following League offi18.. Laurence Bough RegiStratn Secretsry 8fKI Treasurer stephen Hull Fixlurè Secretary These were purchased to assist in the vduntary roles being perfomied. Tlw remain the F0PartY of the Leagti8. Declarations The trustees declare Ihat have apprtyed the Irustees, rep(Kt above. S>3ned on behalf of Ihe Charity'$ trustees. Signatuw{s) Full namesls) Posilion {e.g. Secretary,Chair. etc) Mark DavSon TNste&lClub Rep Mike Jackson TrusteelJ(Nnt Chairman D8te June 2025
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLANO AND WALES 1175432 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a Forthe wiod 0111Y<Jr24 Section A Receipt5 and payments Llnr•stsict8d Endowmènt Total lund6 L8$¢ ytor F• 30 Fkno5 7,97) 05 Oknqi onsornh t Fuplo CYFL AR) 8• 1J2 an 91, R•f¢r•• F••$ Cu FITh T Web Gon4r4 E Co T hw•& 7.72Z 3,921 1)$ 2,762 Sub tot•1 .008 32.70Z A4 As•et and Inent urchas•8 Sub total 27246 1762 Jl762 Nètolrne•lptrfp•ym•nts) A5 Tran•l•rn b•twrt lun A6 Cash funds lastyearend Cash funds thls y¢Jr•nd 23.11 Jf, 1,771 31W) 21 15, 40.681 95.576 742 CCXX R18ttowItsISSI 0411W241
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Un¥8strsctsd funds R•strict6d fund8 Endowment funds Cat¢gofies to trn•ar••tÉ 81 Caah fw 40.6ti 54.É96 rolal lund5 Unmtsi¢t•d R•8trf¢t•d End¢)knTh•nt lunds funds funds to n••F4£ Details to fvJThll b) l¥hh D&tsii8 FuNlto Oeta119 ¢••tloptyw Ctrft•niv4tsJ• 84 A•••ts r•tsln•d for I 199 Whn du• Dttail$ B5 Lhblllll•• J2.$00 z2zz SionJ by on&or htru¥•s( bAhdfofdl th• Pn"nt Name Dat6 01 roval JUNJ 2025 w2025 CCKX R2 ISSI
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the tru$teesJ members of BrentwcK*J c)mUnitY Football Alliance Youlh League On accounts for the year ended 30 April 2025 Charity no (rf any) 1175432 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity {Yhe Trusv) for the year ended 30 10412025 Re8ponslbllltles and As the charity tntee8 of the Trust. you are responsible for the preparntion ba818 of report of the accounts in Ndence with the requirements of the charit Act 2011 1.the Acr). I report in respect of my eXaMinatn of the Trust's accounts carried out under SeCtn 145 of the 2011 Act in carrying out my eXaminatn, I have folbwed the appIable Direction$ given ty the Chanty Commission under section 145(5)Ib) of the Ad. I have rA)mplet&J my examInatK. I confirm that no matwial matters have come to my attentn in connection with the examinalK¥n whi¢h gbves me use to believe that in. any matérial respect". accounting records were not kept In accordance with section 130 of the Act the nts do not acc1 with the 8(xounting records Indopondent examinerfs statement I have no concem$ and have come across no other matters in connection wrth the examination to whh attentn should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to te hed. lete the words in the bketS rfthey do not 8ppIy. Signed: Dat•: ZISeptember 2025 Name: Ross Fisher Relevant professional qualification(sl or body (rf any): Address: 54 Wnchester Avenue. Cranham. Upminster. Essex. RM14 3LR IER October 2018