## **Ringmer Rovers Junior Football Club Annual Report 2022** I am pleased to be reporting on another highly successful year for Ringmer Rovers Junior Football Club. We continue to provide opportunities for the boys and girls in Ringmer and the surrounding area, to participate in football through weekly training and matches against other clubs (including competitive league and cup games for children who have reached the requisite age, and tournaments). We have around 250 children registered with us as players at any given time and continue to provide footballing opportunities for players from the age of 5 to 16. Over the last 12 months we have cemented our informal relationship with Ringmer AFC who run teams for adults in the Ringmer area. Our excellent working arrangements with them have enabled our children to benefit from opportunities to train regularly on the 3G/floodlit pitch and the players and their families to enjoy the clubhouse and other facilities operated by AFC. Our teams have sometimes been able to play matches on the 3G pitch too and this has resulted in fewer postponements. As ever, we have ensured that welfare matters (especially our safeguarding duties) are given the highest priority. Oue Welfare Officer is extremely thorough and all coaches and administrators have DBS clearance. Adults have First Aid qualifications where required. Our financial position is very good and has been strengthened by yet another highly successful annual tournament in June 2021 (with the next tournament planned for June 2022). Our long-serving Treasurer, Stephen James, has stepped down this year with our sincere thanks for his invaluable support for our club, and we have welcomed Alex Truffet in his place. We are using our financial strength to innovate and further develop our club. In the last year we have encouraged more girls to engage with football by establishing a ‘Wildcats’ club. As part of our annual tournament last year we ran an inaugural competition for Ringmer AFC Ladies’ team who were able to host other teams over our tournament weekend; a very successful event which we are again supporting this year. We are also actively working alongside the AFC women’s team to establish RRJFC girls’ teams. Faced (in common with all children’s clubs) with a frequent shortage of referees, we have funded referee training for some of our older players (generally U16s) who have qualified as referees and are now able to officiate in matches involving the younger players. This has helped to ease the referee shortage but just as important, it has underpinned the principle of respecting the role of match officials, which we have always supported at RRJFC. In May 2022 we will be celebrating the 40[th] anniversary of the founding of RRJFC. The club has gone from strength to strength over the years and is as popular and successful as it has ever been. The move to charitable status will ensure that we keep a focus on good governance and this will help us to sustain our success in future years. I would like to end this report by thanking my fellow Trustees; our Treasures, Welfare Officer and Secretary; all Committee members; all our dedicated and inspiring Coaches; all our supportive parents and of course, all our enthusiastic players who make it all worthwhile and rewarding for every adult involved! Thank you all for all you do, and I look forward to another successful year for RRJFC! ## Dave Evans Chairman, Ringmer Rovers Junior Football Club/Chairman of the Trustees 29/05/2022, 15:28 Accounts 2020 2021.jpg chrome://media-app 1/1 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/ members of** Charity Name Ringmer Rovers Junior Football Club **On accounts for the year ended** ## 30 June 2021 **Charity no** 1187233 **(if any)** **Set out on pages** (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 **DD / MM / YYYY** 30/06/2021 . **Responsibilities and basis of report** As the charity trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with 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 all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. **Independent** [The charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to **examiner's statement** undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed body]]. _Delete_ [ ] _if not applicable._ I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have 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,: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or - the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 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. 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. * _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ **Signed: Date:** 24 May 2022 **Name:** Alan Edward James Staples **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body** FCA Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales **(if any):** **October 2018** 1 **IER** ## **Address:** 8 High Street Heathfield East Sussex, TN21 8LS ## **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 details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . **October 2018** 2 **IER**