2024-08-31-accounts - Jeanfield Swifts Community FC (SCIO)

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Jeanfield Swifts

Community Football Club (SCIO)

Report and Accounts

For the year ended 31 August 2024

Scottish Charity: SC050390

Jeanfield Swifts Community FC SCIO

Annual Report and Accounts For the Year Ended 31 August 2024

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Contents Page
Reference & Administrative Information 2
Trustees’ Annual Report 3 – 5
Report of the Independent Examiner 6
Receipts and Payments Account 7 – 8
Statement of Balances 9
Notes to the accounts 10 – 11
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Jeanfield Swifts Community FC SCIO

Reference and Administrative information For the Year Ended 31 August 2024

Registered Office & Principal Address:

Riverside Stadium Bute Drive Perth PH1 3BG

Website: www.jeanfieldswifts.co.uk Charity reference: SC 050390

Board of trustees:

The following served as trustees of the charity during the financial year:

Current Trustees:

Independent examiner:

Jeanfield Swifts Community FC SCIO

Report of the Trustees For The Year Ended 31 August 2024

The trustees are pleased to present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 August 2024.

Structure, Governance and Management

The Charity is incorporated as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO), governed by its constitution and registered with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator on 24 August 2020 (charity number SC 050390).

The organisation is composed of

Members who live within the Perth City [Centre, North & South] ward boundaries
Associates who live outwith the ward boundaries defined above but are associated with the club in the capacity of player (over 16), coach or official
Charity Trustees (composed of Elected Charity Trustees, Appointed Charity Trustees; and Co-Opted Charity Trustees, following the first GM).

The SCIO continues to be managed by an Interim Board comprising the individuals who signed the Charity Trustee declaration forms which accompanied the application for incorporation of the organisation. The Interim Board has as a top priority the election and appointment of additional trustees and intends to hold a GM in the near future to ratify this.

The names of those who served as trustees during the year and other reference and administrative information is shown on page 2.

Objectives and Activities

The main purposes of the charity are:

The advancement of public participation in sport as players, coaches, officials and supporters, irrespective of age, race, religion and gender;
The advancement of health through the provision of activities that have proven benefits for wellbeing including, in addition to organised football training, healthy eating/nutrition classes, space for addiction support services and other physical and mental health services.
The advancement of community development through operating a Community Football club which makes a positive social impact on the community of North Perth and the wider City of Perth.
The advancement of education
The prevention and relief of poverty
The relief of unemployment

The year 2023/24 was mainly about continuing to support the organised football offer, in both the boys and girls pathways, and building on the success of community projects developed under the Community Liaison Officer who had departed late Spring 2023.

Following on from the Summer Camps in 2023, which we ran using volunteers and sessional coaches, we also put on an October Camp during the October half term, with 24 children attending.

Winter training space was once again an issue between October 2023 and the end of March 2024. We once again booked out Bertha Park for two and a half nights a week, and North Inch Communtiy Campus for one night a week, in addition to one or two odd slots to fill gaps. We look forward to the day when we can accommodate all teams’ winter training needs at Riverside Stadium.

Jeanfield Swifts Community FC SCIO

Report of the Trustees (continued)

With a view to resolving the lack of a floodlit all-weather facility, we submitted funding applications to Gannochy Trust and the Scottish Football Association in 2024. Gannochy gave us an agreement in principle and the Jeanfield Swifts FC Trust, which was formed after the sale of the first team’s former home at Simpson Park in Perth provided an agreement in principle for £300000. With a heavily over-subscribed funding round, the SFA placed us on a deferred list and asked us to return to the application later in the year. Our other funders remain committed to our vision for a modern facility at Riverside Stadium that meets the needs of a growing and increasingly diverse community.

In Spring 2024, some 12 months after the departure of a Community Liaison Officer, we welcomed a new Football Development Officer into post in coordination with our partners LiveActive Leisure. His remit covers specific objectives in using football as a medium for supporting mental health, and we are grateful to LiveActive Leisure and Perth & Kinross Council for their assistance and support to fund these objectives, using grant funding that had been obtained in the previous year.

One of the projects run by the Football Development Officer during the second half of the year under review was the “Welcome League”, which provides an opportunity for young men staying in Perth while awaiting asylum claims to be processed to play football. This is an essential outlet for a group who would often otherwise be excluded from such activities. The links between physical activity and mental health are well known and the club is proud to have been able to support this.

At the start of the year we were happy to reopen the club lounge, which had been refurbished following a major water leak and flooding in the previous year. The lounge has been redesigned and is now much more welcoming. It is being used increasingly by groups from outside the club, including Perth & Kinross Council’s Communities Team. We aim to further increase this usage in the coming year and eventually take the management of the lounge over from the first team committee, where it currently sits.

Jeanfield Swifts Community FC SCIO

Report of the Trustees (continued)

Financial Review

Details of income and expenditure can be found on pages 7 & 8 and in the accompanying notes.

Income of £86,258 was received during the year. Most of the income came from membership subscriptions, which were significantly higher than the previous year.

Expenditure totalled £92,006 giving a deficit of £(5,748) for the year comprising net expenditure of £(14,706) in restricted funds and an increase of £8,958 in unrestricted funds.

Funds carried forward total £43,143 of which £25,919 is restricted as detailed in Note 5 and £17,224 is the unrestricted general fund.

Reserves Policy

The trustees do not currently have a policy regarding reserves, other than meeting the day-to-day running costs of the organisation.

Signed on behalf of the Board of Trustees

Date: 25 April 2025

Report of the Independent Examiner To the Board of Trustees of the Jeanfield Swifts Community FC SCIO

I report on the accounts of the Jeanfield Swifts Community FC SCIO for the year ended 31 August 2024, which are set out on pages 7 to 11.

Respective responsibilities of Board of trustees and Examiner

The charity’s Board of Trustees is responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (the Regulations). The Board of Trustees consider that the audit requirement of Regulation 10(1) (d) of the 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 Board of 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 view given by the accounts.

Independent Examiner’s statement

In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention

which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements:
to keep accounting records in accordance with Section 44(1) (a) of the 2005 Act and Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations, and
to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with Regulation 9 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.

Date: 25 April 2025

Jeanfield Swifts Community FC SCIO

Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 August 2024

Unrestricted Funds	Restricted Funds	Total Funds 2024 £	Total Funds 2023 £
£
- 11,670 59,618 4,405 - 5,217 431 2,092 86,258	- - - - - - - - -	- 11,670 59,618 4,405 - 5,217 431 2,092 86,258	60,933 4,390 46,563 6,321 2,062 5,217 82 2,774
			128,342

2,203 752 998 1,455 4,090 26,282 5,000 2,566 3,580 728 13,733 1,130 3,378 2,055 994 1,594 344 - 3,882 2,255 135 100 77,254	13,900 - - - - 639 - - - - 214 - - - - - - - - - - - 14,753	16,103 752 998 1,455 4,090 26,921 5,000 2,566 3,580 728 13,947 1,130 3,378 2,055 994 1,594 344 - 3,882 2,255 135 100 92,006	30,342 789 570 1,414 3,780 18,051 - 1,514 5,051 997 14,822 - 3,519 2,464 2,022 1,792 317 968 3,128 894 621 -
			93,055
9,005	(14,753)	(5,748)	35,287

Jeanfield Swifts Community FC SCIO

Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 August 2024 (continued)

Unrestricted Funds	Restricted Funds	Total Funds 2023 £	Total Funds 2023 £
£
9,005 (47) 8,958	(14,753) 47 (14,706)	(5,748) - (5,748)	35,287 -
			35,287

Jeanfield Swifts Community FC SCIO

Statement of Balances as at 31 August 2024

Unrestricted Funds	Restricted Funds	Total Funds 2024 £	Total Funds 2023 £
£
8,266 8,958 17,224	40,625 (14,706) 25,919	48,891 (5,748) 43,143	13,604 35,287
			48,891

14,756 - 1,067 1,400 17,224	4,057 21,863 - - 25,919	18,813 21,863 1,067 1,400 43,143	10,982 35,332 1,178 1,399
			48,891
		2,062	3,919

Other Assets (estimated value): Equipment

The accounts on pages 7 to 10 were approved by the Board of Trustees on 25 April 2025 and are signed on its behalf by:

Jeanfield Swifts Community FC SCIO

Notes to the Accounts For the Year Ended 31 August 2024

1 Basis of accounting

The accounts have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis in accordance with the Charities & Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended).

2 Nature and purpose of funds

Unrestricted funds can be used in furtherance of any of the charitable objects at the discretion of the trustees. A single unrestricted fund is maintained for the day-to-day operations of the Charity.

Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.

3 Trustees' remuneration and expenses

No remuneration was paid to trustees during the year and no expenses were reimbursed to them.

Grants			2024 £	2023 £
Perth & Kinross Council –unrestricted grant for whole club Scottish Football Association –unrestricted grant for whole club NHS Tayside Community_for salary of the Community Liaison Officer_ Perth & Kinross Council_for child & youth mental health_ Perth & Kinross Council_for adult mental health_ Tiny Changes Perth & Kinross Council_for summer camps 2023_ Perth & Kinross Council_for Holiday Hunger programme_			- - - - - - - - -	400 1,000 22,242 18,450 13,000 3,800 1,031 1,010 60,933

4 Grants

Jeanfield Swifts Community FC SCIO

Notes to the Accounts For the Year Ended 31 August 2024

At 1/9/23 5,058 592 18,175 13,000 3,800 -	Income Expend - - - (639) - - - - - - - (14,114)	Transfers - 47 (18,175) (13,000) - 31,175	At 31/8/24
			5,058 - - - 3,800 17,061
40,625	- (14,753)	47	25,919
8,266 86,258 (77,254)		(47)	17,244 43,143
48,891 86,258 (92,006)		-

Notes

1 The "Holiday Hunger" is a programme funded by Perth & Kinross Council to run a lunch club to contribute to the Council's holiday hunger project, feeding local children during school holidays.
2 Grants were received in previous years from Scottish Football Association from its "McDonalds Fund" to run free soccer school for children aged 6-9.
3 The "Community Mental Health" is a programme funded by Perth & Kinross Council for child & youth mental health. The SCIO agreed with Perth & Kinross Council that the programme could be delivered through a Partnership Agreement with Live Active Leisure Ltd therefore the funds have been transferred to the Mental Health fund. See note 6 for details on the Mental Health programme.
4 The "Adult Mental Health" is a programme funded by Perth & Kinross Council for adult mental health. The SCIO agreed with Perth & Kinross Council that the programme could be delivered through a Partnership Agreement with Live Active Leisure Ltd therefore the funds have been transferred to the Mental Health fund. See note 6 for details on the Mental Health programme.
5 In March 2023 Tiny Changes awarded a grant of £3,800 to work with local secondary schools in close proximity to the club, to deliver and host a series of sport, health and wellbeing sessions for young people between the ages of 12-18 years old.
6 The "Mental Health" programme is delivered through a Partnership Agreement with Live Active Leisure Ltd ('LAL') which was entered into in March 2024. There is a commitment from both the SCIO and LAL to deliver shared local priorities around the development of football in Perth City - North. The key objectives of the Agreement are:
Establish a School of Football model to be delivered at Perth Grammar School.
Create a youth club that provides social opportunities for young people in the Perth City North area.
Establish a 'Community Fan Group' that can attend matches at the Riverside Stadium.
Provide 5 hours per week of recreational football programmes for young people aged 5-17 years old.
Provide 3 hours per week of adult recreational football that aims to benefit mental and physical health.
Deliver 5 weeks of holiday provision for participants aged 5-12 years old.