## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 3 June 2023 Period start date To 30 June 2024 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Croft Junior Football Club** ## **Charity registration number:1203437** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The objects of the club are - (a) to**
**advance the amateur sport of association**
**football in Swindon and the surrounding**
**area (b) to promote community**
**participation in healthy recreation by**
**providing facilities for playing**
**association football (facilities means**
**land, buildings, equipment and**
**organising football activities). (c) to**
**provide and assist in providing facilities**
**for sport, recreation and other leisure**
**time occupation of people who have need**
**of such facilities because of their youth,**
**age, infirmity or disablement, poverty, or**
**social and economic circumstances or**
**for the public at large in the interests of**
**social welfare and with the object of**
**improving their conditions of life. (d) to**
**advance the education of children and**
**young people whether or not undergoing**
**formal education.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**We are a not for profit junior football club**
**run by volunteers for (currently) 280**
**young children from our community. We**
**believe we represent our community well**
**as we are a diverse multicultural club and**
**community. We create a warm, friendly,**
**fun and safe environment for the boys**
**and girls to learn and play the game they**
**love as well as teaching them other**
**principles, such as, respect & inclusion.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have paid due regard to the**
**Charity Commission's guidance on public**
**benefit in deciding the activities the**
**charity should undertake. The trustees**
**consider that they have acted in the**
**public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**The club do not issue grants. It will apply**
**for appropriate grants that will help**
**improve facilities, equipment and**
**experience for the players and families**
**attending.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**The club will not use social investment.**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**The club is run solely by volunteers with**
**all trustee and club committee roles been**
**unpaid.**
**The club may also receive outside**
**volunteer help for specific projects that**
**are planned and risk assessed. For**
**example painting storage containers.**| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**The charity beneficiaries are the players**
**and families registered with the club.**
**The main achievements so far are,**
•
**Initiating and setting up the charity**
•
**Providing affordable football**
**opportunities for 360 players.**
•
**Successfully applying for grants**
**to improve the club**
•
**Supporting 6 low-income families**
**with free membership**
•
**Supporting Ukrainian refugee with**
**free membership**
•
**Improved facilities and equipment**
**used by the community**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Provide low-cost football to the wider**
**community.**
**Building up funds to contribute to**
**existing grants and create a safety fund**
**to enable the club to run 1 season**
**without any income if needed. Increase of**
**£9000 to £39,000. Target £70,000.**| |---|---|---| |||**Main fundraising (aside from player**
**subscription) is our end of season**| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**presentation day and increase year on**
**year to provide £3152 profit.**
**Our subscription model is defined to**
**cover operational costs, and the**
**fundraiser is used to help reach our**
**safety fund target and will then be**
**reinvested in to the club and reduce**
**subscriptions.**| |---|---|---| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**Not applicable**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**At 30 June 2024, the charity held total**
**funds of £39,775.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves are held for 2 reasons**
**1. As monies set aside to complete**
**long term grant processes. We**
**have a 6 year grant where we have**
**to contribute £30000 across tear 3**
**to 6**
**2. Safety fund as suggested by the**
**FA to support the club to cover the**
**costs of 1 season. Currently at**
**£17413**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**At 30 June 2024, the charity held total**
**funds of £39,775 of which £22,362 are**
**held for restricted purposes. Free**
**reserves are £17,413.**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**n/a**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**n/a**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Monthly player subscriptions**
**End of season presentation event**
**Team sponsorship**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||**To provide football to local community**| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Volunteer applicate voted by existing**
**trustees. Position held indefinitely. We**
**are looking for individuals with skill sets**
**that would enhance the charity and club.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|**Croft Junior Football Club**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|n/a| |Registered charity number|1203437| |Charity’s principal address|45 Cumberland Road
Old Walcot
Swindon| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Zachary Orde Josey|Chairman||| ||Craig Gorton|||| ||Anthony Farrar|Treasurer||| ||Vito Mazzotta|||| ||Carlo Frijia|||| ||Daniel Bryant|||| ||Harry Guyatt|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** Declarations 4L 41k/2g nvsoé ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of Croft Junior Football Club On accounts for the** 30[th] June 2024 **Charity no 1203437 period ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1 and 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 period ended **30/06/2024** . **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 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. **Signed: Date:** 15/4/25 **Name:** James Gare **Relevant professional** FCA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** Monahans, Hermes House, Fire Fly Avenue, Swindon, SN2 2GA **October 2018** **IER** 1 ||**Croft Junior Football Team**
**Charity Name**|**Croft Junior Football Team**
**Charity Name**|**Croft Junior Football Team**
**Charity Name**|**Croft Junior Football Team**
**Charity Name**|**Croft Junior Football Team**
**Charity Name**|**1203437**
**No (if any)**|**1203437**
**No (if any)**|**1203437**
**No (if any)**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**||03-Jun-23
Period start date||**To**||30-Jun-24
Period end date||| ||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**30,646**
**795**
**3,152**
**2,331**
**9,608**
**56,387**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**22,362**
**-**
**-**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**30,646**
**795**
**3,152**
**24,693**
**9,608**
**56,387**
**-**
**125,281**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**125,281**
**3,485**
**26,899**
**3,658**
**1,955**
**3,666**
**390**
**22,572**
**1,211**
**855**
**2,542**
**1,195**
**474**
**874**
**565**
**-**
**-**
**70,341**
**10,443**
**3,150**
**338**
**245**
**989**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Funds transferred upon charityset up|**30,646**||||**-**||**30,646**||**-**| |Donation|**795**||||||**795**||**-**| |EOS|**3,152**||**-**||**-**||**3,152**||**-**| |Grant|**2,331**||**22,362**||||**24,693**||**-**| |Sponsorship|**9,608**||**-**||**-**||**9,608**||**-**| |Subscriptions|**56,387**||**-**||**-**||**56,387**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**102,919**||**22,362**||**-**||**125,281**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||| |Affiliation|**3,485**||**-**||**-**||**3,485**||**-**| |Hire ofpremises|**26,899**||**-**||**-**||**26,899**||**-**| |Maintenance|**3,658**||**-**||**-**||**3,658**||**-**| |Coach education|**1,955**||**-**||**-**||**1,955**||**-**| |EOS|**3,666**||**-**||**-**||**3,666**||**-**| |Fine|**390**||**-**||**-**||**390**||**-**| |Match kit|**22,572**||**-**||**-**||**22,572**||**-**| |Referee|**1,211**||**-**||**-**||**1,211**||**-**| |GK Training|**855**||**-**||**-**||**855**||**-**| |Trophies|**2,542**||**-**||**-**||**2,542**||**-**| |Tournament|**1,195**||**-**||**-**||**1,195**||**-**| |Gifts|**474**||**-**||**-**||**474**||**-**| |Equipment|**874**||**-**||**-**||**874**||**-**| |IT|**565**||**-**||**-**||**565**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**70,341**||**-**||**-**||**70,341**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| |Tractor|**10,443**||||||**10,443**||**-**| |Container|**3,150**||||||**3,150**||**-**| |Line marker|**338**||||||**338**||**-**| |Lawn mower|**245**||||||**245**||**-**| |Ride on mower|**989**||||||**989**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**15,165**||||||**15,165**||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||**85,506**
**39,775**||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**17,413**||||||**39,775**||**-**| ||||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**||**-**| ||**17,413**||||||**39,775**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 15/04/2025 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|**Details**
**Details**
Tractor
Container
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Coop
**Details**
Line marker
Lawn mower
Ride on mower
2|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**17,413**
**17,413**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**22,362**
**-**
**22,362**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**10,443**
**3,150**
**338**
**245**
**989**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||15/04/2025| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 15/04/2025