RUTHERFORD ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL CLUB

Registered charity 1125613 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our aims are to:- Promote community participation in healthy recreation by the provision of facilities for playing football and other sporting activities;- To educate and raise awareness in the local population regarding health and fitness with a view to improving their quality of life

Objects

3.1 THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE, PRIMARILY BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LIVING WITHIN GATESHEAD AND SURROUNDING AREAS, BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF FOOTBALL AND OTHER SPORTS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES CAPABLE OF IMPROVING HEALTH; AND3.2 TO EDUCATE PEOPLE, LIVING PRIMARILY IN BUT NOT LIMITED TO GATESHEAD AND SURROUNDING AREAS, REGARDING HEALTH AND FITNESS DESIGNED TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

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

Registered contact address: Gateshead, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £36,668 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds increasing to £698,328. The trustees' report notes that the major source of income is the business arm, Farnacres Ltd, which supports the charity's objectives. The charity maintains a reserves policy of retaining sufficient reserves to cover running costs for three months.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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)

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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 31/03/2023 (received 23/05/2024, 113 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 09/01/2023, 343 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Rutherford Association Football Club (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ian robinsonchair
• Katherine Anne Coxon
• Kirsty Mcqueen-Williams
• Neil Winchester
• Robert Scott Vincent
• shaun porter

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

Operates in: Gateshead

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LUTTERWORTH ATHLETIC FOOTBALL CLUB.

• LUTTERWORTH ATHLETIC FOOTBALL CLUB income £1.3m
• SHEFFIELD AND HALLAMSHIRE COUNTY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £1.2m
• MIDDLESEX COUNTY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £1.6m
• SURREY COUNTY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £1.6m
• EGERTON FOOTBALL CLUB income £294k
• SUFFOLK COUNTY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £950k

Side by side with its peers

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