Annual Accounts for the year ended 31st May 2025 Scottish Schools Football Association
Charity Number: SC006452
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Charity name Charity’s principal address
The Scottish Schools’ Football Association Hampden Park Glasgow G42 9AZ
List of Trustees
Office
Trustee Name
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Name of person (body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)
Council at A.G.M. Council at A.G.M Council at A.G.M Council at A.G.M Council at A.G.M Council at A.G.M Council at A.G.M Council at A.G.M Council at A.G.M Council at A.G.M Council at A.G.M Council at A.G.M
Structure, governance and management
The Scottish School’s Football Association was formed in 1903 and currently has 28 affiliated Primary and Secondary Local Associations from all parts of Scotland.
The Association’s activities are governed by its Council which is elected at the Annual General meeting and comprises 32 members drawn from Local Associations according to population. The Management Committee, consisting of the Association’s Office bearers, is responsible to the Council and the Annual General Meeting. The Management Committee has wide ranging responsibilities for the conduct of Association business. Members of the Management Committee and Council are volunteers.
The Association has no permanent staff members. All trustees are volunteers. An annual honorarium payment is agreed and made by the Council (see note 8 in the accounts).
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Objectives and activities
The object of the Association shall be to foster the mental, moral and physical development and improvement of pupils through the medium of association football and to help charitable funds and purposes.
During the year the charity received £31,957 (£39,451 in 2024) in the form of sponsorship and donations.
Income and Activities during the year totalled £48,476 (£39,352 in 2024) and Bank Interest of £14,115 (£6,300 in 2024) for use in our charitable activities.
Achievements and performance
During the year the charity paid out £4,476 (£5,302 in 2024) in donations, grants and grant aid and paid out £6871 in gifts (£1,131 in 2024)
Financial Review
The charity’s main sponsor, Bank of Scotland, halted formal funding of the SSFA during the year to May 2015. The sponsorship agreement was one of the oldest in Scotland.
The charity has been unable to replace Bank of Scotland with a single major sponsor since that time and has also had to contend in recent years with the COVID-19 pandemic. The charity has entered into a number of smaller sponsorship agreements for individual tournaments and other activities as was the case in the years since May 2015.
The charity continues to hold reserve funds in a high interest savings account. Transfer from these funds was to be made only in the circumstance where the Association lost sponsors which led to a deficit in the Income and Expenditure account. A £5,845 surplus occurred in the year to May 2025 (versus a deficit of £25,948 in 2024) therefore no reserves have been utilised over the year. The SSFA continues to pursue sponsors throughout the year.
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
Signature Date of approval
19/02/2026
19/02/2026
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Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Scottish Schools Football Association
I report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 May 2025 which are set out on pages 5 to 13
Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner
The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) 2005 Act and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006. The charity trustees consider that the audit requirement of Regulation 10(1) (a) to (c) of the Accounts Regulations does not apply. It is my responsibility to examine the accounts as required under section 44(1) (c) of the Act and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of independent examiner’s statement
My examination is carried out in accordance with Regulation 11 of the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeks explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and, consequently, I do not express an audit opinion on the accounts.
Independent examiner’s statement
In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention
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which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements:
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to keep accounting records in accordance with section 44(1) (a) of the 2005 Act and Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations, and
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to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with Regulation 8 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations
have not been met, or
- to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
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Name:
Signed:
Relevant professional body: ACCA
Address:
Date: Qualified since 2010, Fellow as of 2015
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|—|Charity|Name|Charity|No|
|i.|=|Annual|accounts|for the|period|CC39a|
|mniaa rl|Period start|To|Period|end|
|catia|cm|01-Jun-24}|||date|31-May-25}|
|Section|A|Statement|of|financial|activities|
|Restricted|
|Descriptions|by|natural|@|Unrestricted|income|Endowment|Total|this|Total|last|
|category|2|funds|funds|funds|year|year|
|=|£|£|£|£|
|Incoming|resources|(Note|3)|FO1|F02|FO3|FO04|FO5|
|Donations,|legacies|and|Grants|31,957|-|-|31,957|39,451|
|Affiliation|and|entry|fees|48,476|:|-|48,476|39,352|
|Fundraising|events|21,724|||-|-|21,724|||19,391|
|Interest|and|dividends|14,115|-|-|14.115|6,300|
|a|
|Total|incoming|resources|$01|116,273|-|-|116,273|104,494|
|Resources|expended|(Notes|4-7)|
|International matches|38,263|-||g|||38,263|54,348|
|Trials|6,208|-||-|6,208|3,922|
|Coaching|4,618|=|||«|||4618|2,509|
|CompetitionsGovernance|Costs|24,3207,314|||i-|=-|24,3207,314|||26,28215,000|
|Cost|of fundraising|events|20,109|-|20,109|17,378|
|telephoneDonations postageand|Grantsand|stationery|4,4763,093|||--|3,0934.476|||3,7615,302|
|Total resources expended|s02|110,428|-||||110.428|||130.441|
|Net|incoming/(outgoing)|resources|
|before|transfers|$03|5,845|-|5,845||-|25,948|
|Gross transfers between funds|||- ||-|||||||
|Net|incoming/(outgoing)|resources|
|before|other|recognised gains/(losses)|S05|5,845|-|5,845||-|25,948|
|Other|recognised|gains/(losses)|
|assets|for|the|charity’s|own|use|so6|
|Net movement in funds|sos|5,845|-||g|||5,845||.|25,948|
|Total funds brought forward|so9|464,924|=|||||464,924|490,872|
|Total funds carried forward|$10|470,769|- ||470,769|464,924|
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Section C Notes to the accounts
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Note 8 Transactions with related parties
If the charity has any transactions with related parties (other than the trustee expenses explained in note 5) details of such transactions should be provided in this note. If there are no transactions to report, please enter “None” in the relevant boxes.
8.1 Remuneration and benefits
Please give the amount of, and legal authority for, any remuneration or other benefits paid to a trustee or other related parties by the charity or any institution or company connected with it.
|Name|of trustee orrelated party|of trustee orrelated party|Legal authority (eg order,
governing document)|Legal authority (eg order,
governing document)|||Amountspaid orbenefitvalue
Thisyear
Last year|Amountspaid orbenefitvalue
Thisyear
Last year|Amountspaid orbenefitvalue
Thisyear
Last year||
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||||Awarded by|the board||||5,000||
||donorary Treasurer|||Awarded by|the board||||5,000|6,000|||
||nternational Secretary||Awarded by|the board|||3,000|3,000||
||sst General Secretary,|Referees|Awarded by|the board||||||
||||Awarded by|the board||||||
||General Secretary|||Awarded by|the board||||5,000|1,000|||
||||Awarded by|the board||||1,000||
||AGS. Non ProfessionalGame Board||—|Awarded by|the board||||Lae||
||Child
and Wellbeing Protection Officer||Awarded by|the board|||1,000|1,000||
||resident||Awarded by|the board|||1,000|1,000||
||Competition Secretary|||Awarded by|the board||||2,000|1,000||
||Vice President||Awarded by|the board|||1,000|1,000||
||Vice President|||Awarded bythe|the board||||1,000|1,000||
||SSFA Media &
IT Secretary|||Awarded bythe|the board||||1,000|1,000||
|||||Awarded by|the board|||||||
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||tesults Co-ordinator|||Awarded bythe
||the board||
|||1,000|1,000||
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||||||||21,000|23,000||
8.2 Loans
Please give details of and amounts owing to or from the charity's trustees or other related parties by the charity at the year end.
| Amount | owing | ||||
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| Name of trustee or related party | Legal authority | This year | Lastyear | ||
| £ | £ | ||||
| Due to trustees and | 0 | ||||
| related parties | |||||
| Due from trustees and | 0 | ||||
| relatedparties |
8.3 Other transaction(s) with trustees or related parties
Please give details of any transaction undertaken by (or on behalf of) the charity in which a trustee or related party has a material interest.
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Name of the trustee or Description of the This year Last year
related party Relationship to charity | transaction(s) | £ Z |
0 0
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