BERKHAMSTED RAIDERS COMMUNITY FOOTBALL CLUB

Registered charity 1119251 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BERKHAMSTED RAIDERS

Football based activities including education and training to young people in the Berkhamsted area

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR PLAYING FOOTBALL ("FACILITIES " MEANING LAND BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING FOOTBALL ACTIVITIES)2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHETHER OR NOT UNDERGOING FORMAL EDUCATION.

Area of benefit: HERTFORDSHIRE

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

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £64,589 for the year, bringing total unrestricted reserves to £205,918. This figure significantly exceeds the trustees' stated minimum contingency policy of £10,000. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern despite economic headwinds.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Berkhamsted Raiders (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam John Craig
• Andy Grindrod
• CHRISTIAN SIMON ARMOND · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charlotte Spooner Mrs
• Iain Sinclair Manson
• Julia Bastiman
• Kathryn Alison Goodison
• Mark Terence Lawlor
• Richard Sam Bedlow

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BUSHEY RANGERS YOUTH AND FOOTBALL CLUB.

• BUSHEY RANGERS YOUTH AND FOOTBALL CLUB income £124k
• KENSINGTON DRAGONS FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED income £1.7m
• BERKS COUNTY FOOTBALL CLUB income £188k
• Rotherham United Community Trust income £3.0m
• NORTHANTS FUNDAMENTAL FOOTBALL CLUB income £117k
• THE LONDON AND MIDDLESEX RIFLE ASSOCIATION income £170k

Side by side with its peers

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