Rotherham United Community Trust

Registered charity 1123692 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROTHERHAM UNITED COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST

The Charity provides opportunities for children and young people of all abilities to engage in football and other sporting activities by providing activities and venues within Rotherham and its surrounding areas for children and young people to play sport and to benefit from qualified football coaching.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £597k for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £2.96m against charitable expenditure of £2.36m. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £1,089,161, which is below the stated policy target of six months of unrestricted expenditure. The charity holds unrestricted funds of £1.6m but carries current liabilities of £148k and long-term liabilities of £2.6k.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by SMH Group Audit. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Rotherham United Community Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (61% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PAUL GREGORY DOUGLASchair
• AREF MOHAMMED · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carole Ann Foster
• Francesca Ross
• Gregory Shone
• KAREN THOMAS
• Kathryn Smith
• Kenneth John Merry · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARK HANNIGAN
• Shayne Philip Goodwin
• ZAIDAH AHMED

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• BLACKBURN ROVERS COMMUNITY TRUST income £1.9m
• Stockport County Community Trust income £976k
• SHEFFIELD UNITED COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £2.5m
• MELTHAM SPORTS AND COMMUNITY GROUP LIMITED income £134k
• FULHAM FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION income £2.9m
• BERKHAMSTED RAIDERS COMMUNITY FOOTBALL CLUB income £637k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.