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Forres Community Football Trust Trustees’ Annual Report April 2024 to March 2025
Charity contact information
Forres Community Football Trust
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Scottish Charity Number: SC050873 7 Whiterow Drive
Forres IV36 20A
Contact Information
www.fcft.co.uk
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Charity Trustees
Name all of your charity trustees for the period, and the date they left if they were not in post for the whole year
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Objectives and activities
Our charitable objectives are:
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e To provide facilities and resources promoting football and supporting other sports for the people of Forres and surrounding communities.
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e To promote participation by providing activities designed to improve health and wellbeing.
Our charitable purposes are:
- e The provision of recreational facilities to improve health and wellbeing. e The advancement of public participation in sport.
FCFT’s main activities this year was to identify an alternative site for an all weather football in Forres whilst Moray Council plan a new high school in Forres, which should includea full-size all weather football pitch.
This focused on the current facilities of some of the organisations represented by our trustees and their interest and willingness to facilitate an all weather football pitch.
Our Trustee | raised the opportunity for Forres Mechanics to convert their grass pitch, Mosset Park, to an all weather facility, As the name suggests, the pitch is liable to water retention and this limits its use for matches and training.
An evaluation and sampling from locations across the pitch identified peat at several locations, which would require significant expense to fortify for suitable foundations for an all weather football pitch. It was, therefore, decided to assess other interests and locations.
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Our Trustee, JM, represents Forres Thistle Football Club. They have a grass football pitch, Logie Park, and a small enclosed training area. There was interest from Forres Thistle of upgrading the training facility to an all weather football pitch that could accommodate training and 7-a-side games for adults and 9-a-side games for under 12 teams.
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Structure, governance and management
Forres Community Football Trust is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation and operates under a single-tier constitution.
Trustee recruitment and appointment
Our trustees represent the key organisations developing and delivering football in and around Forres in order to reflect their interests in the aims, objectives and activities of Forres Community Football Trust.
Achievements and performance
In 2024/25 our focus was in developing an alternative site whilst Moray Council led on identifying a site for the new High School and the recommended co-location of an all weather sports facility for students.
This has resulted in the evaluation of two existing facilities and the progression of discussions on co-locating an all weather football facility to Forres Thistle’s Logie Park due to the unsuitability of Forres Mechanic’s Mosset Park.
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Financial review
The only outgoings this financial year was the cost of £189.72 for website hosting leaving £23,604.35 in our accounts.
Statement of the charity’s policy on reserves
In order to successfully deliver and operate all weather football facilities, FCFT will look to attract significantly more reserves through grants and donations in order to support a likely need for a Community Asset Transfer, commission technical and legal support and commissiona facility.
Future plans
We will look to create a two-tier constitution that will allow us to initiate a Community Asset Transfer and look for support in assessing and developing a facility adjacent to Logie Park.
Declaration
Signed on behalf of the charity trustees:
Treasurer
30th December 2025
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Forres Community Football Trust $C050873 Receipts and payments accounts For the period to from Section A Statement of receipts and payments Unrestricted Restricted Expendable Permanon Total tunds Total funds funds funds endowment endowment current. last period. funds funds period to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ A1 Receipts | |
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Forres Community Football Trust
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Section B
Statement of balances
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|B1|Cash|funds|Cash and|bank balances|at|23,794|23,794|
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Details Fund to whicheoliability. relates Amount(estimate) due Last year to nearest £ to nearest £ B5 Contingent liabilities Total Signed by one or two Date of trustees on behalf of all Signature Print Name approval the trustees ee —
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