**Company Number CE011967 (England and Wales) Registered Charity Number 1175544**
**Gateshead Football Club Community Foundation (A charitable incorporated organisation (CIO))**
**Financial Statements For the year ended 31[st] October 2023**
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## **Gateshead Football Club Community Foundation Financial statements for the year ended 31 October 2023**
|CONTENTS|PAGE|
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|Company Information|3|
|Trustees’ Report|4 to 10|
|Income and Expenditure Account|11 to 12|
|Independent Examiners Report on Accounts|13|
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## **Gateshead Football Club Community Foundation**
## **Company information for the year ended 31 October 2023**
## Charity Name
Gateshead Football Club Community Foundation
Charity Number 1175544
Company Registration Number CE011967
Trustees E Fawcus N Pinkerton S Thornton T Wilson I Wilson P Clennell D Dixon
## Principal Address
Gateshead Football Club Community Foundation Bensham Grove Community Centre Sidney Grove Gateshead NE8 2XD
## Registered Office
Gateshead Football Club Community Foundation Bensham Grove Community Centre Sidney Grove Gateshead NE8 2XD
## Independent Examiner
N J Liley BSc FCA Read, Milburn & Co. 71 Howard Street North Shields Tyne and Wear NE30 1AF
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## **Gateshead Football Club Community Foundation Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31 October 2023**
The Trustees present their report and financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 October 2023. The trustees have adopted the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) “Accounting and Reporting by Charities” (FRS 102) in preparing the annual report and financial statements of the charity.
## **Objectives and principal activities**
Gateshead Football Club Community Foundation is a Registered Charity, the objectives of which are:
- 1 To promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for the playing of association football and other sports capable of improving health (Facilities in this means land, buildings, equipment and organising sporting activities).
- 2 To provide and assist in providing facilities for sport, recreation or other leisure time occupation of such persons who have the need for such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interest of social welfare and with the object of improving their conditions of life.
## **Achievements and Performance**
## Walking Football
Over the last 12 months the Foundation has run a total of 250 walking football sessions over 4 venues throughout the borough. Currently there are 100 male participants aged from 20 to 75.
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## Holiday Activities and Food Programme
During school holidays, the Foundation ran a total of 21 football coaching camps at an average of 50 children per session. Each session was from 9am until 3pm. Funding was provided by Gateshead Council’s Brighten the Day Project and the Foundation provided the coaches and the activities. The Foundation also ran 9 free pop-up football sessions throughout the borough with an average of 30 children attending each session.
Three Tennis coaching sessions were also run at Saltwell Park, which were also well attended.
Over the school summer holidays a total of 316 individual children attended the camps and pop-ups,
Free family trips to Alnwick Gardens, Hall Hill Farm, St James Park and Jesmond Dene were also organised by the Foundation for children and families.
During the summer holidays free breakfast clubs for families were also held at Bensham Grove.
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## Schools Project
The Foundation has worked with Gateshead Schools Sports Partnership to deliver P.E. lessons and after school activity sessions to 8 schools, with over 250 children learning new skills and building confidence in a fun and friendly environment. The foundation also ran both a boys and a girls under 11’s football tournaments in partnership with The Schools SPORTS Partnership, with Dunston Hill Primary school winning both competitions.
## Outreach Youth Programme
The Foundation continues to run a football coaching session on a Monday evening for an under privileged group in the Bensham area of Gateshead. The Bensham team took part in its first competitive match over the summer holidays against a team from Northbourne Youth Initiative.
In partnership with Go the Distance Durham Community Boxing Club the Bensham group were able to try their hand at boxing during 3 sessions over the summer holidays.
Outreach FAMILY sessions are also continuing to run at Elgin Centre and Whitehills where both children and parents engage in sporting activities.
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## Educational Activities
Throughout the school holidays the Foundation ran several educational activities including storytelling, crafting and gardening.
The foundation partnered with The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead Libraries and The National Literacy Trust to educate children on the meaning of Remembrance Day. During the sessions children were taught about the history of Remembrance and the impact of war on Gateshead, as well as learning how to write poetry. The children also took part in crafting sessions creating Remembrance cards and poppies.
## Awards
The Foundation was awarded Streetgames North East Doorstep Sport Project of the Year for its work in the community this year.
## Pilates
The ladies Pilates session has continued to grow on a Friday morning at Bensham Grove Community Centre with currently 10 participants.
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## **Structure Governance and Management**
## **Trustees**
The Trustees who served during the year covered by this report were as follows:
E Fawcus R Black N Pinkerton S Thornton T Wilson I Wilson P Clennell D Dixon
## **Governing document**
The charity is governed by its constitution incorporated 1st November 2017. The company became a registered charity on 3[rd] November 2017.
## **Corporate status**
The charity is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO).
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## **Gateshead Football Club Community Foundation Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31 October 2023 (continued)**
## **Statement of the Trustees’ responsibilities**
The trustees are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
The law applicable to charities in England and Wales, the Charities Act 2011, Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charity for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- observe the methods and principles in the Charity SORP;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
## **Financial Review**
We are currently operating with minimal funding and donations, but we are hoping to grow by looking at all avenues of funding available.
We have managed to control money and use it effectively to run the Community programmes.
We rely heavily on our dedicated team of unpaid volunteers and helpers.
Our financial information, with details of how and where we have spent our money, is contained within the annual accounts on the Charity Commission's website and as part of this report.
We had £4,616 left in the bank to continue our work at the year end.
## **Statement for public benefit test for charities**
In setting our objectives and planning our activities the trustees have given careful consideration to the charity commission general guidance on public benefit.
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Approved by order of the board of trustees and signed on its behalf by:
Steven Thornton Trustee
Date: 04/11//2023
Ian Wilson Trustee Date: 04/11/2023
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Gateshead Football Club Community No (if any) CC16a
Foundation
Receipts and payments accounts
For the 01/11/2022 To 31/10/2023
period
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## **Section A Receipts and payments**
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Unrestricte Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year
d funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Fundraising / Donations 7,966 - - 7,966 3,032
Holiday Soccer Camps 33,170 - - 33,170 19,946
Schools income 4,700 - - 4,700 4,800
Junior Heed - - - - 306
Active Through Football 14,165 - - 14,165 275
TK Access Solutions 250 - - 250 -
National League Trust - 20,000 - 20,000 20,000
Northumbria Police VRU - 500 - 500 5,000
Ballinger Trust/Summer - 8,385 - 8,385 500
Donations/Local Giving
Schofield Trust / NE Youth - 700 700 900
Connected Voice - 4,000 - 4,000 -
Sport England - 6,000 - 6,000 -
KFC - 2,100 - 2,100 -
Boxing Grant NE Youth - 400 - 400 -
Asda - 400 - 400 -
Arnold Clark - - - - 1,000
Citizens Advice - - - - 1,000
Forestry England - - - - 1,050
Sported - - - - 500
Ford - - - - 250
Marks and Spencer - - - - 1,000
Leeds Building Society - - - - 1,000
Barbour Trust - - - - 2,000
60,251 42,485 - 102,736 62,559
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 60,251 42,485 - 102,736 62,559
A3 Payments
Salaries/Tax/Pension 15,929 33,553 - 49,482 30,028
Facility Hire 23,359 1,791 - 25,150 15,005
Equipment 252 360 - 612 456
Insurance - 739 - 739 739
Admin 109 144 - 253 779
Publicity - - - - 198
Coaching / Instructors / Freelance 10,871 1,842 - 12,713 11,352
Training 500 - - 500 160
Rent 436 2,905 3,341 -
Events 125 4,233 4,358 8,094
Food 4,440 2,275 - 6,715 -
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Donations 70 - - 70 139
Sub total 56,091 47,842 - 103,933 66,950
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total payments 56,091 47,842 - 103,933 66,950
Net of receipts/(payments) 4,160 -5,357 -1,197 -4,391
A5 Transfers between funds - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end -16 5,829 - 5,813 10,204
Cash funds this year end 4,144 472 - 4,616 5,813
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**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**Signed by one or two trustees**
**on behalf of all the trustees**|**Details**
Bank Account
**_Total cash fund_**_s_
(agree balances with receipts and
payments account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestrict**
**ed funds**
**to nearest £**
**472**
**472**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs **
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs **
-
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
Print Name|
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|||Ian Wilson|
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**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Gateshead Football Club Community Foundation **On accounts for the year** 31[st] October 2023 **Charity no** 1175544 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 11-12
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/10/2023.
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of **basis of report** the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Date:** 12/03/2024 **Signed: Name:** N J LILEY **Relevant professional** FCA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 71 HOWARD STREET NORTH SHIELDS TYNE AND WEAR, NE30 1AF
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