FEATHERSTONE ROVERS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1118452 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FEATHERSTONE SPORTS AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION

To equip the local community with the skills to lead fulfilled healthy and active lifestyles through the power of Rugby League and the Featherstone Rovers brand. To support the community of Featherstone and former 5 Towns area to ensure everyone has the right to develop skills to maximise their potential regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, sexual orientation & ethnic background

Objects

3.1) TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF RUGBY AND OTHER SPORTS CAPABLE OF IMPROVING HEALTH ("FACILITIES" IN THIS CLAUSE 3 MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES);3.2) TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR SPORT, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; AND3.3) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF CHARITY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE WEST YORKSHIRE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wakefield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charitable foundation remains operational and successful despite the administration of its parent club, the Featherstone Rovers RLFC. The trustees report that the budget is achievable and aim to maintain reserves equivalent to six months of running costs, in line with Charity Commission recommendations.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Featherstone Rovers Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrea Margaret Watson
• BRIAN WATSON
• Chris Alan Heinitz
• Ken Taylor
• Linda Thornley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Andrew Pawson
• Maureen Tennant King
• Neil Lindsay Rush

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Barnsley · City Of Wakefield · Kirklees · Leeds City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FOLKESTONE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB.

• FOLKESTONE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB income £106k
• FAVERSHAM STRIKE FORCE FC income £205k
• HARPENDEN ROVERS YOUTH FOOTBALL CLUB income £98k
• FRAMPTON COTTERELL RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB income £134k
• WARRINGTON WOLVES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £831k
• READING FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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