FREE KICKS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1121073 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our mission is to encourage community engagement and wellbeing through recreation, with a dedicated focus on disadvantaged children, teenagers and young adults, by providing opportunities for sport-related experiences and access to sporting facilities.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION PARTICULARLY FOR SERIOUSLY ILL, DISABLED OR RECENTLY BEREAVED CHILDREN, TEENAGERS AND YOUNG ADULTS BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR PLAYING FOOTBALL AND PARTICIPATING IN FOOTBALL RELATED EXPERIENCES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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

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Registered contact address: Peterborough, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £8,088.10 for the year, resulting in a decrease in cash at bank from £112,247.25 to £88,713.45. The trustees have declared that no reserves policy is in place. The independent examiner noted a restatement of the opening balance due to an error in netting income against expenditure.

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 4 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.

• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Free Kicks Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew John Barkschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher King
• DAMON LLOYD WILLIAMS
• Emma Elizabeth Barrett-Green
• Jennifer Carolyn Melling
• LEIGH ARMINE PORTER
• Mark Dowling
• Matthew Foulkes-Arnold
• Nicholas Paul Reinis-Keightley
• Nilesh Patel
• Sam Downing
• Steve Thorpe

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KICKS COUNT.

• KICKS COUNT income £110k
• KIDS-IN-ACTION income £443k
• KICK LTD. income £2.1m
• WINSHAM RECREATIONAL TRUST income £54k
• BEHIND EVERY KICK income £194k
• MIDDLESBROUGH FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION income £2.6m

Side by side with its peers

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