AFC BOURNEMOUTH COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST

Registered charity 1122693 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AFC BOURNEMOUTH COMMUNITY SPORTS

The Charity's primary objective is to provide opportunities for sporting, educational and recreational activities for the public of Bournemouth and surrounding areas.

Objects

A) THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF FOOTBALL.B) TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.C) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF SPORTING AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC OF BOURNEMOUTH AND SURROUNDING AREAS WITHOUT REFERENCE TO RACE, RELIGION AND BELIEVE, SEX, DISABILITY, NATIONALITY, ETHNIC OR NATIONAL ORIGIN OR SOCIAL BACKGROUND, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, DORSET, HAMPSHIRE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: New Forest, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £63,813 for the year ended 30 November 2025, with total income of £1,661,434 against total expenditure of £1,597,621. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis of accounting. Free reserves stood at £692,794, which the trustees consider to be within their stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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)

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/11/2023 (received 14/11/2024, 45 days after the 30/09/2024 due date); year ending 30/11/2021 (received 14/12/2022, 75 days after the 30/09/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06396310 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• STONE, Janet — director, appointed 10/11/2025not on trustee list
• ALLEN, Martin Brian — director, appointed 09/07/2025on trustee list
• WARD, Sarnia, Dr — director, appointed 01/06/2025on trustee list
• REIDY, Paul Alan — director, appointed 10/04/2025on trustee list
• WALLER, Keith Michael — director, appointed 10/04/2025on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (74% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Janet Stone FCA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Keith Michael Waller
• Martin Allen
• Paul Alan Reidy
• Rosanna McLean

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

Operates in: Dorset · Hampshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FARNBOROUGH FC COMMUNITY TRUST.

• FARNBOROUGH FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £65k
• READING FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £2.4m
• BOROUGH OF HAVANT SPORT AND LEISURE TRUST income £8.5m
• BURWELL COMMUNITY SPORTS CENTRE income £120k
• BIRMINGHAM SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY TRUST income £1.3m
• MORECAMBE F.C. COMMUNITY SPORTS income £455k

Side by side with its peers

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