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Easterhouse Football Academy

Annual Report and Financial Statements

31 March 2025

Charity registration number - SC050875

Easterhouse Football Academy

Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2025

Contents

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Trustees' Annual Report	1
Independent Examiner's Report	4
Statement of Receipts and Payments	5
Statement of Balances	6
Notes to the accounts	7

Easterhouse Football Academy

Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2025

The trustees present their report together with the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025

Reference and Administrative Information

Charity name

The legal name of the charity is Easterhouse Football Academy. It is also known as Easterhouse FA.

Charity No

SC050875

Address

7 Guildford Drive Glasgow G33 5ER

Trustees

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Structure, Governance and Management

Constitution

The Charity is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (a SCIO). It was registered in its current legal form on 29 March 2021. It has a single tier structure and as such the trustees are the members of the charity.

Appointment of Trustees

Trustees are appointed via a voting and nomination system from within the charity. The minimum number required is 7.

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Easterhouse Football Academy

Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2025

Objects and activities

Charitable purposes

To provide young people of the local community a chance to play organised football within their local community, to give them a sense of belonging and to provide affordable opportunities to the young people of the area, ensuring all young people have the chance to play football.

To provide the football opportunities to young people to teach skills that are transferable into everyday life which can hopefully set them up for their future.

To provide a safe environment where young people can come and express themselves.

Activites, achievements and performance

We are glad to see our Easterhouse FA family keeps growing with the starting of our 2019 team with some 2020 involved and next to start our 2020 group that has a special place for us with it being the year we were formed and the start of our journey.

We have over 270 registered boys and girls as well over 160 registered players over 18 and counting.

Great to see our over 35s with another Scottish cup to make it 2 in a row and other age groups winning trophies and competing all over Scotland and beyond, including tournaments in Blackpool and beyond.

We opened the new community hub at Stepford with a partnership with Glasgow City Council, FARE and EFA. Giving teams have a meeting place and giving parents somewhere to sit on a cold, wet Glasgow night. The community space also held a few birthday parties, after kids played football, saving parents money as it free to use. The community hub was also used as a space to provide free haircuts for kids to go back to school.

2024/25 also seen Easterhouse FA running our 1st full camp at Stepford with help from SFA. The kids loved it and we hope in the future a safe place for kids to come during all school holidays to get free play and food for a few hours.

Financial review

Another tough year for everyone, in all walks of life, with the cost of living crisis and all the financial heartaches that causes.

As always we try keep our fees as low as possible and give sibling discounts too. With the help of our fantastic volunteer coaches and helpers and funding via donations and grants we have been able to keep our monthly fees to £15, or £20 with the use of a referee. We feel that is good value compared to fees charged by other teams. For 2 training nights and 1 game per week this works out at just over £1 per night or day training or game.

Reserves policy

The trustees’ policy is to retain £5,000, which is calculated as 3 months worth of fees, in order to meet the running costs and cover any unexpected expenditure. Reserves are currently sitting at £10,194. The trustees will continue to monitor the reserves position.

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Easterhouse Football Academy Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2025

Plans for the future

We hope 2025/26 keeps us improving coaches and helpers who are the backbone of the community with the other teams at Stepford and we hope we can get more community involvement and more kids making and meeting friends in a safe fun place.

As always we are looking at ways to improve our service and continue to try to be the best we can be and with parents help with the players and coaches helpers we will.

Approved by the trustees on 28 October 2025 and signed on their behalf by:

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Easterhouse Football Academy

Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Easterhouse Football Academy

I report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2025

Respective responsibilities of the 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) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended). The charity trustees consider that the audit requirement of Regulation 10(1) (d) of the 2006 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 2006 Accounts Regulations. 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 view given by the accounts.

Independent examiner’s statement

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

1. 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

to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with Regulation 9 of the 2006 - Accounts Regulations

have not been met, or

1. 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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AAT

Office 2/3, 2nd Floor 48 West George Street Glasgow G2 1BP This report was signed on 27 October 2025

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Easterhouse Football Academy

Statement of Receipts and Payments for the year ended 31 March 2025

Receipts Donations 4 Grants 5 Fundraising Sponsorship Receipts from charitable activities SFA- Quality Mark Bond return 20s Total receipts Payments Fundraising costs Cost of charitable activities 6 Governance costs Purchase of equipment Total payments Surplus/(deficit) for year Sale of pin badges Membership fees	Unrestricted Funds 2025 £ 8,805 10,296 80 2,400 34,164 15 7,950 - 63,710 354 61,977 - 2,358 64,689 (979)	Restricted Funds 2025 £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Total Funds 2025 £ 8,805 10,296 80 2,400 34,164 15 7,950 - 63,710 354 61,977 - 2,358	Total Funds 2024 £ 5,776 10,164 61 13,778 28,820 - 6,100 250
				64,949
				662 62,454 - 108
			64,689 -	63,224
			(979)
				1,725

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Easterhouse Football Academy Statement of balances as at 31 March 2025

Opening cash at bank and in hand Surplus/(deficit) for year Closing cash at bank and in hand Bank and cash balances EFA account	Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds 11,173 - (979) - 10,194 - 10,194 - 10,194 -	Total 2025 11,173 (979) 10,194 10,194 10,194	Total 2024 9,448 1,725
			11,173
			11,173
			11,173

Approved by the trustees on 28 October 2025 and signed on their behalf by:

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Easterhouse Football Academy

Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025

1 Basis of accounting

These accounts have been prepared on the 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 are those that may be used at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the objects of the charity. The trustees maintain a single unrestricted fund for the day-to-day running of the academy.

The charity has no restricted funds.

3 Related party transactions

No other remuneration was paid to the trustees or any connected persons during the year (2024:Nil)

4 Donations

Flannigan Floors Mallison Television Sport 24 Ltd JustGiving	Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds 500 - 975 - 128 - 7,202 - 8,805 -	Total 2025 500 975 128 7,202 8,805	Total 2024 - - - 5,776
			5,776

5 Grants

Sported Foundation Foundation Scotland Glasgow City Council Corra Foundation Spar	Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds 1,000 - 5,000 - 4,296 - - - - - 10,296 -	Total 2025 1,000 5,000 4,296 - - 10,296	Total 2024 - - 4,914 5,000 250
			10,164

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Easterhouse Football Academy

Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025

6 Cost of chartitable activities

Telephone Pitch hire Referee fees Badges Bank charges Camp fees Coach fees Under 20's running costs Fines Ground maintenance Kits and embellishments Hospitality and outings League fees Memberships and licence fees SFA fees and insurance Software Tournaments Training courses Trophies Physio Donation Returned fees	Unrestricted Funds Restricted Funds 108 - 29,784 - 2,912 - 175 - 4 - 470 - 620 - - - - - 4,864 - 8,102 - 6,518 - 2,910 - 33 - 3,860 - 349 - 210 - 510 - 548 - - - - - - - 61,977 -	Total 2025 108 29,784 2,912 175 4 470 620 - - 4,864 8,102 6,518 2,910 33 3,860 349 210 510 548 - - - 61,977	Total 2024 - 30,800 1,635 - - 1,275 - - - 217 9,547 4,354 - - 6,239 3,464 2,660 - 1,988 100 40 135
			62,454

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