Ballyvea Football Club Limited
Company Limited by Guarantee Directors’ Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report)
Year ended 30 June 2025
The directors, who are also the directors for the purposes of company law, present their report and the unaudited financial statements of the charity for the year ended 30 June 2025.
Reference and administrative details
Registered charity name Ballyvea Football Club Limited Charity registration number NIC108193 Company registration number NI659180 Principal office and registered 51 Carrigenagh Road office Kilkeel Newry BT34 4PY
The directors
David Crutchley Alan Blue Ivan McCavery (Resigned 3 March 2026) Trevor McConnell
The Charitable Company is registered with The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, under registration number NIC 108193.
The Directors have obtained official charitable status for the company from HMRC. The HMRC Charity Registration number is NI00948.
Bank
Danske Bank 58 Hill Street Newry BT34 1AR Independent examiner Una Cunningham FCA Purdy Quinn Chartered Accountants 42 Greencastle Street KILKEEL Co Down BT34 4BH
Structure, governance and management
Constitution
The company is registered as a charitable company limited by guarantee and was set up under the Memorandum & Articles of Association on 20 February 2019.
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Ballyvea Football Club Limited
Company Limited by Guarantee
Directors' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report) (continued)
Year ended 30 June 2025
Structure, governance and management (continued)
Organisational structure and decision making
The company Directors are:
Trevor McConnell Alan Blue Ivan McCavery David Crutchley.
The directors manage the Ballyvea Football Club Limited Committee in dealing with the day-to-day operations of the charity.
At the period end, in addition to the directors, the following individuals had served on the Committee:
Mark Haugh Geoff Beck (Resigned 5th November 2024) Harold McKibbin (Deceased 1st February 2025) Wesley Haugh Mark Ballance Kenny McConnell Graeme McKibbin Mark McConnell Johnny Tremlett Philip Chambers
Committee meetings were held monthly on the first Tuesday of the month. The average attendance is ten. The Annual General meeting was held 6 May 2025.
Risk management
The Trustees have assessed the major risks to which the charity is exposed, in particular those related to the operations and finances of the company, and are satisfied that systems are in place to mitigate exposure to the major risks.
Objectives and activities
The objectives of the charity are for the public benefit and without distinction of age, sex, race, disability, political, religious or other opinion are to;
(i) advance amateur sport through provision of local football club in the Mourne District Electoral Area
(ii) promote the playing of association football by the provision of facilities, training and equipment in the Mourne District Electoral area
(iii) advance amateur sport which promotes healthy lifestyles and mental wellbeing in the Mourne District Electoral area
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Ballyvea Football Club Limited
Company Limited by Guarantee
Directors' Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report) (continuea)
Year ended 30 June 2025
Strategic report
The following sections for achievements and performance and financial review form the strategic report of the charity.
Achievements and performance
The Club continued to run both our core football! activities and our Community Hub. The range of activities happening in the building week by week has stayed constant, and our three senior teams along with around 120 youth players continue to represent the Club in local football leagues and cups. On the field, our First Team had their best season to date in Mid Ulster League Division 1. Our Second team performed well following their promotion to Reserve Division 2 in the 2024-25 season. Our Third team continued to compete in the Newcastle and District Amateur Footbal! League, providing a pathway to senior football for a number of young players graduating from our youth system. For the second year in succession, they also reached the final of the Kitroom Plate where they narrowly lost to Kilmore in the final.
The Club continued to engage with the local community, hosting Brackenagh West Primary School Sports Day, and a Fun Day & Youth Tournament, as well as making our Hub facilities available to a number of local groups such as Homestart, Southern Health & Social Care, KD Dance studios and various individuals for parties and dinners.
The Club continues fo be represented on Newry, Mourne and Down Council Sports Development committee SANDSA at Deputy Chairman level. This provides access to various training opportunities such as Coaching, Child Protection and First Aid.
Senior teams
The 2024-25 season saw our First team continue to play at the highest Junior level in Mid Ulster League, Division 1. The team, with manager David Heaney, had their best season to date in this division, finishing sixth. Our Reserve team was managed by Alan Graham and finished a creditable 7th in their first season in Reserve Division Two. The Thirds had a good league season and reached the final of the Kitroom Plate.
Youth teams
We continued to run youth teams from Under 7 to Under 16, and remain indebted to our dedicated coaches who invest much time and energy in the development of our young players. Youth teams continue to compete in the Mid Ulster Youth League and the Grassroots Development centre at Newry. We continue to see a steady flow of very young players joining the Club in our Under 7 group.
Ladies football
Ladies football continues to grow at the Club, with a group iadies meeting each Wednesday evening for training, and playing a few friendly games.
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Ballyvea Football Club Limited
Company Limited by Guarantee Directors’ Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report) (continuea)
Year ended 30 June 2025
Achievements and performance (continued)
Ground Maintenance
Work is required on an ongoing basis to maintain our grounds, especially the grass pitches. Both pitches were reseeded at the end of the season, resulting in first-class surfaces for the resumption of football. We remain indebted to a willing team of volunteers who carry out this work.
Facilities development
Our Community Health & Wellbeing Hub continues to be a great community asset in the area. We have many bookings for birthday parties and family events, as wells hosting ballet classes, line dancing classes and Homestart meetings. All of these mean that the Hub is now a valuable source of income to the club.
Our Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) continues to be very well used, both for Club training and also bookings by groups for 5-a-side football. Brackenagh West PS also use the MUGA for football and hockey after-school clubs. This is tremendous asset to the Club, as it allows much of our youth training to be allocated to the MUGA, saving wear and tear on grass pitches.
Community Activities
Fun Day and Youth Tournament
This was held in June and attracted around over 70 teams from across Co Down, Co Armagh and Co Antrim. This was a big club effort involving members in car parking and food cooking duties, as well as the organisation of the tournament matches.
Golf Classic
This annual golf tournament took place at the end of August 2024 at Kilkeel Golf Club.
Brackenagh West PS Sports Day
We were pleased to be able to offer our facilities free of charge to Brackenagh West PS for their 170 pupils to enjoy a sports day.
Financiai review
The results for the year are set out on page 8 of the accompanying financial statements.
Ballyvea Football Club Limited's accounts for this year report a surplus of £22,388 (2024 - £11,979).
This surplus is reported after depreciation for the year of £19,212 (2024 - £23,684), hence the surplus before depreciation was £41,600 (2024- £35,763).
During the year the club was able to make good progress on loan repayments.
Capital of £14,760 (2024 - £4,612) was repaid to Community Finance treland. The monthly loan repayments were increased to £1200 per month (including interest) during the year to 30th June 2025 and a one off repayment of £5,000 was made in January 2025.
The Club ended the period with a balance of £4,197 (2024 - £3,124) in our Community Account and £757 (2024 - £4,150) in our Deposit Account.
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Ballyvea Football Club Limited
Company Limited by Guarantee
Directors’ Annual Report (Incorporating the Director's Report) (continued)
Year ended 30 June 2025
Financial review (continued)
Fundraising
Monthly standing orders reached £2,400 by end of the period.
Fundraising events such as our Fun Day, and golf classic totalled around £7,000. We had around 40 sponsorship boards at our ground generating over £4,000.
The Club continued to apply for grants from Council and other bodies.
During the period the Club obtained Letters of Offer for grant aid as follows:
Newry Mourne & Down District Council £10,890 Capital Improvement — Pitch Fencing DAERA Micro Grant £1,992 Purchase of pitch mower DAERA Micro Grant £1,990 Fencing
Going concern
After making appropriate enquiries, the trustees have a reasonable expectation that the company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements. Further details regarding the adoption of the going concern basis can be found in the Accounting Policies.
Reserves policy
The Trustees have established a policy to designate funds for particular purposes, if decided necessary by the Board, and to restrict funds which are to be used for specific purposes as laid down by the donor.
Trustees have confirmed that the charity's assets are available and adequate to fulfil the obligations of the charity and that the funds are not excessive given the nature of funding, the assets, the commitments and size of the charity.
The directors' annual report and the strategic report were approved on 23 March 2026 and signed on behalf of the board of trustees by:
NA ¢ David jCrutchiey Trevor McConnell Director Director
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