## _**Saughall Colts Trustees Annual Report Year Ending 30 June 2021**_ 

## Trustees 

Paul Hitchcox (Chair of Trustees) Paul Parry Colin Jones David Bretton Chris Collins 

Steve Richards Andy Youde Paul Jenkins Mark Booth 

## Independent Verifier 

Neil Howell 

## Report on Year Ending 30 June 2021 

The following are the key issues and highlights of another very successful year for the charity 

## CIO Status 

- The club has had its second full year as an Incorporated Charitable Organisation. 

- The club retained its status as an FA Charter Standard Community Club. 

## Financial 

- We have had the first full year of the lease for Seahill.  Rent has increased from £1000 per annum to £1050 per annum (with future increases linked to RPI). 

- This year has been another very tough season affected by COVID-19.  Despite this, income for the year almost doubled to £105k. 

- We managed to recover nearly all lost subs (ca. £1K written off as hardship grants) which allowed us to fund awards for players. 

- Expenditure was just over £100k, an increase of 66%.  There has been further significant expenditure on the grounds at Sea Hill (£78k) to upgrade facilities and improve safety and security. 

- Overall, the club remains in a healthy financial position but would not be able to survive solely on incoming subscriptions.  It continues to remain very important that the message goes out to parents and players that additional fundraising is vital to the success of the club and subscriptions alone are not enough. 

## Facilities 

- Facilities are in the best-ever condition. We received a number of grants for pitch machinery, goals, pitch maintenance and fencing. There was also a further grant for covid related expenditure. 

## Football Related 

- We lost 3 teams and didn’t increase the number but the total number of players remains around 310 plus Veterans (self-funded). We will have 22 teams going into the new season (21 in CDJFL and 1 in Eastham league). 



- Because of covid, we weren’t able to organise an end of season Seahill Tournament however we plan to do one at the beginning of the 2021/22 season. 

- The Wildcats Centre (to promote girls’ football) isn’t currently active. We will continue to seek volunteers to re-establish the centre. 

## Thanks 

- Thanks to all the trustees, coaches, managers, committee members and especially players and parents for their patience throughout. Thanks also to those people who don’t have kids at the club but still help.  Special thanks were extended to Jane and Jo for managing the new player registrations process, Neil & Nicole for managing our accounts and Chris for his work as Chair. 

Paul Hitchcox Chair of Trustees - Saughall Colts 30 June 2021 



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