**Charity number: 1182641**
**Company number: 09964451**
**(England and Wales)**
## **CHILDREN'S FOOTBALL ALLIANCE**
**Report of the Directors and Unaudited Financial Statements**
**For the year ended 31 December 2023**
**CHILDREN'S FOOTBALL ALLIANCE Contents Page For the year ended 31 December 2023**
|Report of the Directors|1 to 4|
|---|---|
|Independent Examiner's Report to the Directors|5|
|Statement of Financial Activities|6|
|Statement of Financial Position|7|
|Notes to the Financial Statements|8 to 13|
|Detailed Statement of Financial Activities|14|
## **CHILDREN'S FOOTBALL ALLIANCE Report of the Directors For the year ended 31 December 2023**
The Directors have pleasure in presenting their report and the financial statements for the charitable company for the year ended 31 December 2023. The Directors have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and the Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019).
## **Chair's report**
The Children's Football Alliance was launched in 2010 and is a coalition of agencies and organisations that safeguard and advance the rights of children in football.
We work tirelessly to better children's lives and our extended children's focused organisations form a vital network of partnerships sharing best practice in all stages of childhood. The CFA will be accessible to all communities seeking advice on the children's game.
The CFA delivers around three to four projects each year, to improve the lives and experience of children, especially the most vulnerable in all forms of football. We work with organisations from across the voluntary, statutory and private sectors through our free membership scheme, and through the sector-led specialist networks and partnership programmes that operate under our non-government organisation status.
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## **Objectives and aims**
The aims of the CFA are:
·To get more children actively playing football for fun.
·To protect childhood through play.
·To be the voice for children in football and to be recognised and trusted by society for serving communities with integrity and excellence.
·To secure for them the most enjoyable, developmental and child-centred football experience when they do play.
·To create playing environments and formats which allow children to reach their full potential through football and learn about the value of social inclusion through play.
·To eliminate the factors which cause children to drop out of football.
The directors have considered the Charity Commision's guidance on public benefit, including the guidance 'public benefit: running a charity (PB2)'.
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## **CHILDREN'S FOOTBALL ALLIANCE Report of the Directors Continued For the year ended 31 December 2023**
## **ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE**
## **Significant activities**
To deliver these aims, in the past year, the CFA has worked on a series of programmes: List these here, with a brief narrative
Peace Field Projects (PFP)
continue to grow, connecting a unique network of schools, clubs, teams, organisations, partners, charities, NGOs, volunteers, educationalists, facilitators, practitioners, peace makers, community leaders and everyday people, to the International Children's Football Alliance (ICFA).
The PFP twins designated areas of play with the Peace Village's Peace Pitch in Flanders, Mesen, Belgium and commemorates wars and celebrates peace in a range of countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, D R of Congo, England, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Scotland, USA, Wales.
There are further PFPs in development across: England, Croatia, Fiji, Romania, Scotland, Samoa and Tonga. The Global Peace Games (GPGs)
Hosted at the Peace Village and facilitated by the CFA, the GPGs will be celebrating its 10th Year in 2024. The United Nations initiative annually celebrates peace on International Day of Peace 21st September. The CFA's weeklong peace education through play programme brings children from poor communities together from across Europe and the rest of the world.
The GPGs were part-funded by charity fundraising events Erasmus+, the UEFA Foundation for Children and online donors and inspired by The United Nations International Day of Peace and The First World War's Christmas Truces.
Free v Free children's football campaign
Now in its 12th year, Free v Free advocates no cost football for children. The CFA's quarterly newsletters maintain the point of information and contact for schools that wish to in engage in the event at a level that meets their needs. The games are supported in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Football Makes Our Shared History
The CFA continued its delivery of the Heritage Lottery Funded Football Makes Our Shared History project. The 2022 project was extended into June 2023 and culminated in twinning sixteen designated areas of play with Flanders Peace Pitch at The Peace Village, Mesen, Belgium: CFA Peace Field Project partners. The CFA continue to produce and distribute the free quarterly newsletter to 3090 subscribers.
The CFA continue to work closely with project partners from Belgium, England, Czech Republic and Northern Ireland. The primary focus was maintaining objectives on providing online GPGs information and updating all previous partners webpages. Moreover, maintaining good communications with former funders UEFA Foundation for Children has led to further funding the GPGs 10th Anniversary event September 2024.
Going Forward
The CFA continues to work closely with project partners from Belgium, England, the Czech Republic and Northern Ireland.
Moreover, maintaining good communications with the UEFA Foundation for Children has led to further funding the GPGs 10th Anniversary event September 2024.
The participation numbers recorded through the International Peace Fields Project, 30,000.
Impact in communities: Belgium, Czech Republic, England, India, Japan, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, U.S.A.
·Better health and well-being.
- ·A better understanding of the importance of sport in diverse communities
- ·Competencies in peace education through play
- ·Improved awareness of special needs and mixed abilities
- ·A raise in social inclusion numbers in all projects
- ·Stakeholder numbers continue to grow.
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## **CHILDREN'S FOOTBALL ALLIANCE Report of the Directors Continued For the year ended 31 December 2023**
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
## **Significant events**
The document outlines the means by which the CFA will raise funds over a 3 year period, starting 2023.
To date, such fundraising has been successful, achieving grants from the Big Lottery Fund, Erasmus +, Heritage Lottery Fund and the UEFA Foundation for Children. In terms of moving forward, the fund-raising event: This Country v Swindon Town Legends charity football match and the This Country Sponsored Walk raised the profile and added value to the organisation.
Aims
The aims of the fundraising plan are as follows:
- ·To secure a sustainable future for the CFA
- ·To maximise potential funding for each project operated by the CFA
- ·To secure core funding, so as to provide ongoing support for the Managing Director and any other staff
- ·To ensure a diversity of funders, across different types of funds
- ·To ensure that the organisation is not reliant on one individual funder
It should also be noted that the main aim of this plan is to improve the lives of children through sport.
## Roles
The majority of the fundraising is delivered through the CFA Managing Director and it is recognised that this is one part of a wide role.
We continue to work towards a position where funds can be put identified and used to employ an experienced part-time fundraiser. The expectation is that such a role would provide a good return on investment made and go some way to achieving the overall aims of the plan.
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
## **Governing document**
The NCFA from 2019 operates as a charitable company.
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION**
**Name of Charity** CHILDREN'S FOOTBALL ALLIANCE **Charity registration number** 1182641 **Company registration number** 09964451 **Principal address** Room 178 80 Churchill Square West Malling Kent ME19 4YU
## **Directors**
The directors of the charitable company are its trustees for the purpose of charity law. The trustees and officers serving during the year and since the year end were as follows:
## **Secretary**
Mr Ernie Brennan Mr Brendan Hanlon Mr Paul Cooper Mr Farrell Monk Mr Paul Cooper
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**CHILDREN'S FOOTBALL ALLIANCE Report of the Directors Continued For the year ended 31 December 2023**
## **Independent examiner**
Willis Burnell Ltd. Unit 1 The Courtyard Parsonage Stocks Road Faversham Kent ME13 0ET
Approved by the Management Committee and signed on its behalf by
19 April 2024
............................................................................. Mr Brendan Hanlon
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## **CHILDREN'S FOOTBALL ALLIANCE Independent Examiners Report to the Directors For the year ended 31 December 2023**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charitable company for the year ended 31 December 2023.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity Directors are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 ('the 2006 Act').
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the Company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your charity's accounts carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 ('the 2011 Act'). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.
## **Independent examiners statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no 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 Company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts do not comply with the requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair view' which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination;
or
4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).
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.
Willis Burnell Ltd.
Unit 1 The Courtyard Parsonage Stocks Road Faversham Kent ME13 0ET
19 April 2024
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## **CHILDREN'S FOOTBALL ALLIANCE Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) For the year ended 31 December 2023**
|**Notes**
**Income and endowments**
**from:**
Donations and legacies
2
Charitable activities
3
**Total**
**Expenditure on:**
Raising funds
4
Charitable activities
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**Total**
**Net income/expenditure**
**Reconciliation of funds**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
17,025
-
**17,025**
(3,019)
(33,028)
**(36,047)**
**(19,022)**
38,987
**19,965**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
13,473
4,913
**18,386**
-
(17,999)
**(17,999)**
**387**
12,338
**12,725**|**2023**
**£**
30,498
4,913
**35,411**
(3,019)
(51,027)
**(54,046)**
**(18,635)**
51,325
**32,690**|**2022**
**£**
84,188
12,465|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**96,653**|
|||||(6,190)
(92,151)|
|||||**(98,341)**|
|||||**(1,688)**
53,013|
|||||**51,325**|
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Registered Number :
09964451
## **CHILDREN'S FOOTBALL ALLIANCE Statement of Financial Position As at 31 December 2023**
|**Notes**
**Current assets**
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**
12
**Net current assets**
**Total assets less current liabilities**
**Net assets**
**The funds of the charity**
Restricted income funds
13
Unrestricted income funds
13
**Total funds**|**£**
**2023**
33,260
**33,260**
(570)
**32,690**
**32,690**
**32,690**
12,725
19,965
**32,690**|**£**
**2022**
51,895|
|---|---|---|
|||**51,895**|
|||(570)
**51,325**|
|||**51,325**|
|||**51,325**|
|||12,338
38,987|
|||**51,325**|
For the year ended 31 December 2023 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
- The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in
- accordance with section 476,
- The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to
- accounting records and the preparation of accounts. These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies’ regime.
The financial statements were approved and authorised for issue by the Board and signed on its behalf by:
Mr Ernie Brennan Director 19 April 2024
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## **CHILDREN'S FOOTBALL ALLIANCE Notes to the Financial Statements For the year ended 31 December 2023**
## **1. Accounting Policies**
## **Basis of accounting**
The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, except for investments which are included at market value and the revaluation of certain fixed assets and in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) ‘Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102), and the Companies Act 2006.
CHILDREN'S FOOTBALL ALLIANCE meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note(s).
## **2. Income from donations and legacies**
|**ncome from donations and legacies**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**2023**|**2022**|
||**funds**|**funds**|||
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|Donations received|17,025|-|17,025|10,202|
|Grants received|-|13,473|13,473|73,986|
||**17,025**|**13,473**|**30,498**|**84,188**|
## **3. Income from charitable activities**
|**ncome from charitable activities**|||
|---|---|---|
||**2023**|**2022**|
||**£**|**£**|
|**Restricted funds**|||
|_Peace Fields Project_|||
|Income from charitable|4,913|12,465|
|activities|||
## **4. Expenditure on generating donations and legacies**
|**Expenditure on generating donations and legacies**|||
|---|---|---|
|**Unrestricted funds**
Support costs|**2023**
**£**
3,019
**3,019**|**2022**
**£**
6,190|
|||**6,190**|
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## **CHILDREN'S FOOTBALL ALLIANCE Notes to the Financial Statements Continued For the year ended 31 December 2023**
## **5. Costs of charitable activities by fund type**
|Global Peace Games
Peace Fields Project
Football Makes Our Shared
History
Support costs|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
-
-
-
33,028
**33,028**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
11,177
4,573
2,249
-
**17,999**|**2022**
**2023**
**£**
**£**
56,085
11,177
3,038
4,573
-
2,249
33,028
33,028
**92,151**
**51,027**|
|---|---|---|---|
## **6. Costs of charitable activities by activity type**
|**Support costs**
Global Peace Games
Peace Fields Project
Football Makes Our Shared
History|**2022**
**2023**
**Support**
**costs**
**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
44,205
33,028
11,177
89,113
4,573
-
4,573
3,038
2,249
-
2,249
-
**17,999**
**33,028**
**51,027**
**92,151**|
|---|---|
## **7. Analysis of support costs**
|**Global Peace Games**
Management
Governance costs|**2023**
**£**
33,028
3,019
**36,047**|**2022**
**£**
33,028
6,190|
|---|---|---|
|||**39,218**|
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## **CHILDREN'S FOOTBALL ALLIANCE Notes to the Financial Statements Continued For the year ended 31 December 2023**
## **8. Net income/(expenditure) for the year**
This is stated after charging/(crediting):
|This is stated after charging/(crediting):|||
|---|---|---|
||**2023**|**2022**|
||**£**|**£**|
|Accountancy fees|-|1,055|
|Trustees' remuneration|33,028|33,028|
## **9. Staff costs and emoluments**
Total staff costs for the year ended 31 December 2023 were:
|Salaries and wages
Management|**2023**
**£**
33,028
**33,028**
**2023**
4
**4**|**2022**
**£**
33,028|
|---|---|---|
|||**33,028**|
|||**2022**
4|
|||**4**|
## **10. Trustee remuneration and related party transactions**
Remuneration of £33,028TrusteeE Brennan
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## **CHILDREN'S FOOTBALL ALLIANCE**
## **Notes to the Financial Statements Continued For the year ended 31 December 2023**
## **11. Comparative for the Statement of Financial Activities**
|**Income and endowments from:**
Donations and legacies
Charitable activities
**Total**
**Expenditure on:**
Charitable activities
**Total**
**Net income/expenditure**
**Reconciliation of funds**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**
**Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**
Trade creditors|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
37,202
1,707
**38,909**
(33,028)
**(33,028)**
**5,881**
39,296
**45,177**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
46,986
10,758
**57,744**
(59,123)
**(59,123)**
**(1,379)**
13,717
**12,338**
**2023**
**£**
570
**570**|**2022**
**£**
84,188
12,465|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**96,653**|
||||(92,151)|
||||**(92,151)**|
||||**4,502**
53,013|
||||**57,515**|
||||**2022**
**£**
570|
||||**570**|
## **12. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**
## **13. Movement in funds**
## **Unrestricted Funds**
|**Unrestricted Funds**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Balance at**|**Incoming**|**Outgoing**|**Balance at**|
||**01/01/2023**|**resources**|**resources**|**31/12/2023**|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|_General_|||||
|General|38,987|17,025|(36,047)|19,965|
||**38,987**|**17,025**|**(36,047)**|**19,965**|
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## **CHILDREN'S FOOTBALL ALLIANCE Notes to the Financial Statements Continued For the year ended 31 December 2023**
## **Unrestricted Funds - Previous year**
||**Balance at**|**Incoming**|**Outgoing**|**Balance at**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**01/01/2022**|**resources**|**resources**|**31/12/2022**|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|_General_|||||
|General|39,296|38,909|(39,218)|38,987|
||**39,296**|**38,909**|**(39,218)**|**38,987**|
## **Purpose of unrestricted Funds**
## General
To protect childhood through play.
## **Restricted Funds**
|FMOSH
Global Peace Games
Peace Fields Project
**Restricted Funds - Previous year**
Global Peace Games
Peace Fields Project|**Balance at**
**01/01/2023**
**£**
-
4,618
7,720
**12,338**
**Balance at**
**01/01/2022**
**£**
13,717
-
**13,717**|**Incoming**
**resources**
**£**
6,549
6,924
4,913
**18,386**
**Incoming**
**resources**
**£**
46,986
10,758
**57,744**|**Outgoing**
**resources**
**£**
(2,249)
(11,177)
(4,573)
**(17,999)**
**Outgoing**
**resources**
**£**
(56,085)
(3,038)
**(59,123)**|**Balance at**
**31/12/2023**
**£**
4,300
365
8,060
**12,725**
**Balance at**
**31/12/2022**
**£**
4,618
7,720
**12,338**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
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## **CHILDREN'S FOOTBALL ALLIANCE Notes to the Financial Statements Continued For the year ended 31 December 2023**
## **Purpose of restricted funds**
Global Peace Games
To fund participation in the Global Peace Games.
Peace Fields Project
The twinning of children's designated areas of play with Flanders Peace Field, Messines, Belgium.
FMOSH
Football Makes Our Shared History: Pitch twinning project.
## **14. Analysis of net assets between funds**
|**Analysis of net assets between funds**||
|---|---|
|**Unrestricted funds**
_General_
General
**Restricted funds**
FMOSH
Global Peace Games
Peace Fields Project
**Previous year**
**Unrestricted funds**
_General_
General
**Restricted funds**
Global Peace Games
Peace Fields Project|**Net current**
**assets /**
**(liabilities)**
**Net Assets**
**£**
**£**
19,965
19,965
4,300
4,300
365
365
8,060
8,060|
||**32,690**
**32,690**|
||**Net current**
**assets /**
**(liabilities)**
**Net Assets**
**£**
**£**
38,987
38,987
4,618
4,618
7,720
7,720|
||**51,325**
**51,325**|
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## **CHILDREN'S FOOTBALL ALLIANCE Detailed Statement of Financial Activities For the year ended 31 December 2023**
|**INCOME AND ENDOWMENT**
**Donations and legacies**
Donations
Grants receivable
**Charitable activities**
Income from charitable activities (Peace
Fields Project)
**Total incoming resources**
**EXPENDITURE**
**Charitable activities**
Cost of direct charitable activity (Global
Peace Games)
Cost of direct charitable activity (Peace Fields
Project)
Cost of direct charitable activity (Football
Makes Our Shared History)
**SUPPORT COSTS**
**Management**
Management (Global Peace Games)
**Governance costs**
Governance costs
**Total resources expended**
**Net Expenditure**|**£**
**2023**
17,025
13,473
**30,498**
4,913
**4,913**
**35,411**
(11,177)
(4,573)
(2,249)
**(17,999)**
(33,028)
**(33,028)**
(3,019)
**(3,019)**
**(54,046)**
**(18,635)**|**£**
**2022**
10,202
73,986|
|---|---|---|
|||**84,188**
12,465|
|||**12,465**|
|||**96,653**
(56,085)
(3,038)
-|
|||**(59,123)**
(33,028)|
|||**(33,028)**
(6,190)|
|||**(6,190)**|
|||**(98,341)**|
|||**(1,688)**|
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