BURY FOOTBALL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1121232 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BURY FC COMMUNITY TRUST, BURY FC IN THE COMMUNITY

Bury FC Community Trust delivers a number of football and sporting activities to provide a range of opportunities to improve health and fitness, develop educational opportunities and to engage hard to reach and excluded communities. Our programmes support healthy lifestyles, reduce social isolation, improve academic achievement and employability, and reduce anti social behaviour.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE INHABITANTS OF LANCASHIRE AND GREATER MANCHESTER AND THEIR SURROUNDING AREAS:-3.1 TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL 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: LANCASHIRE - GREATER MANCHESTER

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of negative £8,058 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total unrestricted funds decreasing from £85,428 to £77,370. The filing notes that the charity is exempt from audit under small companies provisions and underwent an independent examination with no matters coming to the examiner's attention.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Glenn Thomaschair
• Alison Warwood
• Billy Rhys Quarmby
• Lee Chapman
• Scott Paynter

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

Operates in: Lancashire · Manchester City

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).