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The England Amputee Football Association Annual Report 2024-2025

Charity Name England Amputee Football Association Charity Registration number 328551 Registered office 363 Liverpool Road Southport Merseyside PR8 3BT Management committee Steve Johnson Chairman David Tweed Treasurer Sean Jackson Trustee

Our aims and objectives:

To provide football opportunities both domestic and internationally for people with limb loss or limb deficiency throughout England and Wales.

Our main objectives for this year 2024-2025

Deliver high quality training weekends for senior England amputee football squad players both male and female.
Delivery of warm weather training camp in Turkey for men’s England team prior to European championships
Participate in the EAFF men's European amputee football championships in Evian in France.
Raise funds to deliver football activities through crowd funding, TV appeals and other funding sources,
Deliver domestic league and cup competitions for 4 national amputee football teams.
Develop regular training camps and football opportunities for the junior amputee football programme.
Participate in the inaugural World Amputee Football Federation amputee football world cup for women in Colombia.

Achievements

England male national team

The England men’s national team had a busy year; in April they travelled to Belek in Turkey and took part in a 5-day warm weather training camp.

During the camp they played two fixtures against Asian champions Uzbekistan winning 3-0 and then losing 3-2.

The national team also played World Cup winners Turkey and narrowly lost a competitive game 2-1.

Each month the men’s team had a training camp in to the build-up to the major event the EAFF European champions that were held in Evian in France in June.

England were in a group with Georgia, Holland and Italy, England swept Georgia away with a comprehensive 6-0 win, in the next group game England defeated Holland with a comfortable 3-0, in their final group game England beat a resolute Italy team 1-0 to top the group.

In the quarterfinal England faced the hosts France and ran out 1-0 winners in a comfortable performance.

In the semifinal England faced Spain and went ahead 1-0, Spain equalised following an error and went on to win the game 2-1 with a last-minute breakaway goal, the England team were then defeated 1-0 by Poland in the 3[rd] /4[th] place game.

In September the men's national team travelled to Warsaw to compete in the Amp Cup they played against Poland, Polland U21 and Iraq.

England female national team

EAFA have started a female national amputee team, there were saveral monthly training camps set up that the ladies attended.

In September 2024 the national team travelled to Poland to play their first ever competitive international, they played 2 games over the weekend although they lost both games 2-0 and 1-o respectively the ladies showed enough to suggest that they would do well in the World Cup.

After an extensive fundraising effort, with TV appearances the ladies in November travelled to Colombia to participate in the first ever woman's world cup competition.

In their first game England played Peru and isabel Papandronicou wrote her name in history by scoring the first ever world cup goal, England went on to win their first ever game in the world cup

Annabel Kiki Remmer finished the Peru game with a hatrick the first ever from a England female player as England beat Peru 6-0.

In their second game England triumphed over a physical Haiti team 1-0, in their 3[rd] game England suffered a setback losing 1-0 to Kenya which still meant they qualified for the quaterfinal of the world cup.

In the quarterfinal England played a tough USA team the score was 0-0 after extra time and unfortunately like so many England teams previously lost on penalties.

England played for 5[th] -8[th] position, they comfortably beat Ecuador 3-0 and then played the Ukraine for 5[th] /6[th] play off, England triumphed 2-0 with both goals by Annabel Kiki Remmer to finish top scorer with 7 goals remarkable achievement.

Domestic league and cups

In the league there were 4 teams fighting for the honours Everton, Portsmouth, Newcastle and Chelsea.

In June Portsmouth beat Everton 3-2 in the disability cup final in a close game that was shown live on TNT sports.

In August Portsmouth made it a hat-trick of cup wins and triumphed in the EAFL cup competition.

In October Everton won the league for the second consecutive time beating Portsmouth into second place.

Everton amputees travelled to Italy to compete in the champions league, they had a tough group, in their opening game they defeated Cork 2-0, they lost to eventual winners Wisla Krakow.

Everton narrowly failed to qualify for the semi-final losing to a last-minute winner to Turkish champions Sahim Bay.

Everton then played Paris FC in the 5[th] /6[th] play-off game and won 4-0 to finish 5[th] in a spikey competitive game.

Junior Development

The junior programme, which is for children under the age of eighteen, this part of the charity is growing from strength to strength with over 70 juniors attending camps, eight weekend coaching training camps were delivered throughout the year.

The junior players are split into appropriate aga and ability groups and various football skills are coached to the players.

In July 25 EAFA junior travelled to participate in the EAFF international junior camp that was held in Belgium, over 100 juniors from countries around the world took part in the camp.

Several junior players have made the transition from this programme to feed into the league teams and some into the senior international team.

Staffing Volunteers and Staff Released

Owen Coyle, David Maclean, Dan Towers, Lewis Shaw, Elizabeth Aitcheson, Sam Girven, Rick Harrop Lloyd Jones, Dan Richardson, Scott Rogers, Mark Dolan, Andy Rohman, Megan Ratcliffe, Jake Kirkman

Active volunteers

Volunteers support all the various programmes that EAFA deliver, the volunteers who supported this year are:

Scott Rogers, Mark Dolan, Andy Rohman, Sophie Bone, Harry Smith, Niall Hogan, Gary Faber, Alison McCaul, Ashleigh Abbott, Graham Brade, Aaron Jones, Tim Pattenden, Emma Quinn, Rhys Pountain, Jake Kirkman, Will Yung, Paul Reynolds, Elaine Oakey, Sean Jackson, Thomas Atkinson, Jamie Oakey, David Tweed, Ian Clarke, Steven Johnson, Gary Marheineke, Ray Westbrook, Tom Skeath, Tom England, Teilo Pearce, Owen Radley, Dan Bowden, Bex Grimble, Ed Perry, Robyn Gardner.

Administration & Subscription fees:

Annual governance membership with both European (EAFF) & World Amputee Football Federations (WAFF) were maintained to enable EAFA to be in good standing, ensuring a seat at congress and entry to all international tournaments.

Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustee report above:

Signed behave of the trustees:

Signature: Steven Johnson

Full Name: Steven Johnson

Position: Chairman

Date 31/1/2026

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0k CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES

‘ Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner's Report

Report to the trustees/ members of |[ENGLAND][AMPUTEE][FOOTBALL][ASSOCIATION]

On accounts for the year | 01 APRIL 2025 ended

Charity no | 328551 (if any)

| report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 01 /ot/ 201

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’).

| 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, | have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. independent | have completed my examination. | 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: e accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or | 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 proper understanding of the the accounts to be reached. “ Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply. lA Signed: Date: | 05/01/2026

| 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 the accounts to be reached.

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Signed:
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Relevant professional |[ASSOCIATION][OF ACCOUNTING][TECHNICIANS] qualification(s) or body

(if any):

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October 2018

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 NONE any items that the examiner wishes to disclose.

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