**Clapham Rangers FC Trustees’ Annual Report for the period from 01 January 2024 to 31 December 2024**
## **Objectives and Activities**
The purpose and principal activity of Clapham Rangers FC (“the Club”) is to provide football facilities within the Clapham and surrounding areas of London for children and young people aged 21 and under. The broader purpose being to promote the physical health benefits of community participation in physical activity and recreational sport _("facilities" means land, buildings, equipment, access to coaching and organising sporting activities)._
Formed in 2007, Clapham Rangers is one of the foremost grass football clubs in Lambeth with more than 250 registered players. During the period to 31 December 2024, the Club provided training and competitive football for 18 football teams. These children pay an annual subscription to be members of the club. The Club provides a wide range of football based activities to the members utilising the support of both paid qualified football coaches and volunteers for the day to day running of the club.
The Club’s teams participate in competitions affiliated with the London County Football Association during the regular football season between September and May. During these months, the club provides its members two football sessions per week, covering both training and matches.
In addition to the competitive activities the Club also provides one “development” session per week for members and non-members. These sessions operate on a weekly drop-in basis or in the form of camps during the school holidays and during the year increase the number of children involved with the Club above 300.
The club registered as a charity for the first time during 2021. Throughout the year all trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.
## **Achievements and Performance**
The 2023/24 football season saw the club continued to invest in improving the quality of coaches and facilities. We have retained FA Charter Standard Community Club status and are a Nike Partner Club.
The Club had a stable year in terms of normal operations, with a consistent number of members participating in competitive matches compared to previous seasons.
The Club’s focus for the 2023/24 season was to focus on player development and maximising the number of sessions offered during the season. The club has hired additional qualified coaches, increased access to all weather facilities and improved the provision of football equipment during the season. This investment focuses on player development and ensuring fewer session are lost to winter weather. Finally, the club continued its outreach activities within the local community to ensure we the club is attracting members from across all communities within Lambeth.
## **Achievements and Performance (continued)**
The club continued its commitment to offer financial support for those members requiring assistance and is pleased to have been able to provide support for all applications during the season. The Club’s financial support takes the form of a reduction in the membership fees of between 50% and 100%.
## **Financial Review**
The Club budgets to break-even each year while retaining a positive cash balance, the club’s only financial asset. During the period the Club made a gain of £14,208, resulting in a closing cash balance of £55,800.
The Club holds a reserve of £2,000. This reserve is held in order to cover the fixed cost elements of entering the club into competitive competitions for a period of one year. The trustees will undertake a review of the reserving policy during 2025 to increase the minimum service provision available from reserves.
The club is primarily funded through annual membership fees but does also rely on sponsorship from local businesses and other fundraising activities.
The trustees are confident that the Cub will continue as a going concern in the foreseeable future.
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
The Club is constituted under a trust deed as Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) whose only voting members are its trustees. The trustees are proposed and approved via an Annual General Meeting of the Club’s members.
The following individuals served as the Club’s trustees throughout the year, unless stated:
Gary Clark Cole Salewicz (Club Secretary – appointed June 2022) Jonathan Perkins Andrew Green (resigned Sep 2024) Georgina Kingsbury Raoul Chatterjee (resigned January 2024) Rachel Lum (appointed co-Chairperson Aug 2024) Claire Tyler (appointed co-Chairperson Aug 2024) Julian Price (appointed Treasurer Aug 2024) Jonathan Kelly (appointed Aug 2024)
## **Reference and Administrative details**
**Charity name** _**:** Clapham Rangers Football Club_
**Charity registration number:** _1188214_
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
|**Signature**
**Full name**
**Position**
**Date**||31/10/2025|
|---|---|---|
||Jonathan Perkins||
||Trustee||
||31/10/2025||
||31/10/2025||
||**1**
**Clapham Rangers FC**|**1**
**Clapham Rangers FC**|**1**
**Clapham Rangers FC**|**1**
**Clapham Rangers FC**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|01/01/2024|**To**|||
|||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**112,528**
**5,003**
**8,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**126,032**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**126,032**
**45,954**
**54,703**
**8,166**
**3,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**111,823**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**111,823**
**14,208**
**0**
**41,592**
**55,800**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**0**
**0**
**0**
**0**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Membershipincome|**112,528**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**112,528**
**5,003**
**8,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**126,032**|**106,797**|
|Fundraising|**5,003**||||**4,457**|
|Sponsorship|**8,500**||||**9,300**|
|Trustee loan|||||**3,000**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**126,032**||||**123,554**|
|||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||
||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**||
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||
||||**-**|**126,032**|**123,554**|
|||||||
|Kit & Facilities|**45,954**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**45,954**
**54,703**
**8,166**
**3,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**111,823**|**43,123**|
|Coaches|**54,703**||||**55,850**|
|Fees and Admin|**8,166**||||**6,248**|
|Trustee loan repayment|**3,000**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**111,823**||||**105,221**|
|||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||
||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**||
||**-**|||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||**111,823**||
||||**-**||**105,221**|
|||||||
||**14,208**||**0**|**14,208**|**18,333**|
||**0**||**0**
**0**|**0**
**41,592**|**0**|
||**41,592**||||**23,258**|
||**55,800**||**0**|**55,800**|**41,592**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
03/11/2025
1
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**
R2 accounts (SS)|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Cash at bank (Less Reserve)
Cash Reserve
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
2|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**53,800**
**-**
**2,000**
**-**
**-**
**55,800**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Jonathan Perkins|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**39,592**|
||||**2,000**|
||||**-**|
||||**41,592**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||Date of
approval|
||||31/10/2025|
|||||
||||03/11/2025|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's report
on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trustoasl
mombgrs of
Clapham Rangers Football Club
On accounts for the year
ended
31 December 2024
Charity no
lif any)
1188214
Set out on pag&8
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity {'the Trust'} for the year ended
Responsibilitie8 and As the Charity trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of th8
basis of report accounts in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 {'the ACVI.
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I
have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charily Commission
under section 14515)Ib) of the Act.
Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
examiner's statement come to my attention 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 concems 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 Ihe accounts to be reached.
Signed:
Date:
2 November 2025
Name:
Christopher Powell
Relevant professional
qualificatlon(sl or body
(if anyl:
ACA {ICAEW)
Address:
41 Angles Road
London
SW16 2UU
IER
November 2025
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if thé examiner noodg 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 examinor
wishes to disclosè.
IER
Novamber 2025