## **DARLINGTON FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION CIO TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT 2023-24** 


The Annual Report of Darlington Football Club Foundation CIO (DFCF) covers the period from June 2023 to May 2024. During the year the DFCF has continued to show both the consolidation of existing services as well as some pleasing developments of new work. The year has also seen the continued development of the staff team and the maintenance of stable governance at board level. We continue to work closely with Darlington FC in a partnership that ensures that the whole community can be involved and supported. 

As reported the previous year, it is with great pride that we have seen incremental growth both in terms of our programme of work as well as our financial stability. The fact that this can be reported is almost entirely due to the work the DFCF Chief Executive, Barry Thompson, and his team who have taken on all aspects of the development, running and sustainability of the programme and the organisation as a whole. 

Backing up the staff team there are the trustees who have shown little change in the year and have the skills and knowledge to give strong governance, contacts and advice in all aspects of risk management and safeguarding. We are also grateful to Andy Hodgson who has undertaken an Independent Examination of our accounts and approved them for submission to the Charity Commission. 

The programme of work has only been made possible by our funders who ensure that the diverse nature of our activities is successful financially as well as giving benefit to those taking part. 

We are especially grateful to The National league Trust (NLT) who provide the bulk of core funding which, in turn, levers in other programme funding. Not only have the NLT provided much needed funds but also give background support and advice to ensure that DFCF is fulfilling its obligations and financial reporting to the highest standards. They have also introduced a programme of networking and training events to help ensure that the quality of services remain consistent across the family of football foundations. 

## Programme highlights include: 

_**Think With Your Feet**_ : Weekly session supported by MIND for those who need mental health support – referrals made from a variety of agencies including local NHS. 20-30 take part every week; _**Weight Goals**_ : Weight management programme/football sessions in conjunction with the local NHS – 25-30 take part each week; 

**Women’s Social Football** : funded by Durham FA with up to 20 taking part.; 

**Well-Played:** weekly programme of non-football indoor activities for people who are isolated and in need of support – 20-25 average attendance; 

**Refugee Football** : Weekly session for local refugee community which they fund themselves; 

**Anti-Social Behaviour Football** : football sessions supported by local community safety team and funded by Durham Police & Crime Commissioner; 

**Pre-Match Experiences & Mascots** : full programme each home match now aimed at schools and community groups in the more deprived parts Darlington and surrounding areas; 

**Schools Programme** : school funded programme of football and healthy activities; 

**School Holiday Football Camps** : commercial programme in school holidays has started to show a small profit; **NLT Under 11s Cup** : national competition run by NLT in which Darlington Teams progressed to Regional Finals; **Awards Night** : recognition of achievements as well as a bit of fun for everyone – 100 attended. 

New and emerging programmes started towards the end of the reporting year include working with younger children through Mini Quakers and Quaker Tots as well as a programme for  older people through a Walking Football initiative. 

We are very grateful to Barry Thompson, Foundation Manager, his assistant manager Millie Garnett and all of the staff team for delivering such a successful and full programme of work. 

**Steve Rose** , Chair of Trustees 



Appendix A 

**Darlington Football Club Foundation** 

**1185957** 

**CC16a** 


## **Receipts and payments accounts** 

**For the period** 01-Apr-23 **from** 

31/05/2024 **To** 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

## **31-May-24** 

**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds to the nearest      £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £** 

**to the nearest      £** 

**Total funds Last year** 

**to the nearest £ to the nearest £** 

## **A1 Receipts** 

|||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|B/F||**5,653**||||**-**|||**5,653**||**6,622**|
|National League Trust Grant||||**23,083**|||||**23,083**||**27,000**|
|Pioneeringcare Grant||||**4,850**|||||**4,850**|||
|National Lottery||||**1,333**|||||**1,333**||**10,000**|
|CountyDurham Foundation Grant||||**5,000**|||||**5,000**||**5,000**|
|Durham FA Womens Football Grant|||||||||**-**||**800**|
|DFCFG Christmas Draw|||||||||**-**||**300**|
|ASB Youth Grant||||**7,212**|||||**7,212**||**1,000**|
|Misc Grants||||**3,250**|||||**3,250**|||
|Holidaycamps||**7,806**|||||||**7,806**||**4,906**|
|Refugee Income||**4,359**|||||||**4,359**||**2,203**|
|Womens Football session fees||**2,135**||||**-**|||**2,135**||**555**|
|Schools fees||**3,777**||||**-**|||**3,777**||**95**|
|Weight Goals||**1,316**|||||||**1,316**|||
|Mascot||**953**|||||||**953**|||
|Charitymatch||**829**|||||||**829**|||
|Other||**947**||||**-**|||**947**||**35**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_||**27,775**||**44,728**||**-**|||**72,503**||**58,516**|
|||||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||||
|**(see table).**||||||||||||
|||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||
|||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||||
||**_Total receipts_ **|**27,775**||**44,728**|||**-**||**72,503**||**58,516**|
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|Staff Costs||**-**||**29,560**||**-**|||**29,560**||**26,196**|
|Office set-upcosts||**-**||||**-**|||**-**||**2,197**|
|General office costs||**-**||**3,916**||**-**|||**3,916**||**2,271**|
|Insurance||**-**||||**-**|||**-**||**2,118**|
|Football Coaches||**7,269**||**2,370**||**-**|||**9,639**||**4,541**|
|Pitch Hire||**4,728**||**7,882**||**-**|||**12,610**||**4,976**|
|Equipment||**3,070**||**1,000**||**-**|||**4,070**||**2,936**|
|Packed Lunches||**868**||||**-**|||**868**||**1,368**|
|Other||**200**||||**-**|||**200**||**269**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**_Sub total_ **|**16,135**||**44,728**||**-**|||**60,863**||**46,872**|
|||||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||
|**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||
|||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||
|||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||
||**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||||
||**_Total payments_ **|**16,135**||**44,728**|||**-**||**60,863**||**46,872**|
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**||**11,640**||**-**|||**-**||**11,640**||**11,644**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds**|**last year end**|**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||
|**_Cash funds this year end_**||**11,640**||**-**|||**-**||**11,640**||**11,644**|



CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 

11/03/2025 

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Appendix A 

## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**<br>Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B3 Investment assets**|Signature<br>Tax and pension due<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Grants in advance<br>General Balances<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**-**||**28,209**||**-**|
|||**11,640**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**11,640**||**28,209**||**-**|
|||||||OK|
|||||||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 

11/03/2025 

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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** Darlington Football Club Foundation 

**On accounts for the year** 31[st] May 2024 **Charity no** 1185957 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1-2 (remember  to include the page numbers of additional sheets) 

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31/05/2024.** 

- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of 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._ 

**Signed: Date:** 02/03/2025 **Name:** Andrew Hodgson **Relevant professional** Chartered Institute of Management Accountants **qualification(s) or body (if any):** 

**Address:** 1 Usk Court, Ingleby Barwick, Stockton On Tees, TS17 5EG 

**October 2018** 

1 

**IER** 



**Section B                           Disclosure** 

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). 

**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 

**October 2018** 

2 

**IER**