PETERBOROUGH UNITED FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1132364 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Community based activities in the local area , ie after school clubs, half term courses, social inclusion and health and wellbeing sessions.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE INHABITANTS OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS:-3.1 TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIESFOR THE PLAYING OF ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL AND OTHER SPORTS CAPABLE OF IMPROVINGHEALTH ("FACILITIES" IN THIS CLAUSE 3 MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT ANDORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES);3.2 TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR SPORT, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURETIME OCCUPATION OF SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASONOF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMICCIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE ANDWITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;3.3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH SUCH MEANSAS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF CHARITY; AND3.4 FOR SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES OR FOR SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE,

Area of benefit: CAMBRIDGESHIRE

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves were £27,121, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of covering two months' salary costs. The charity reported a net resource increase of £6,424 for the year, with total income of £720,296 and total expenditure of £713,872.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06982786

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.

• RACHER, Christopher — director, appointed 25/11/2025on trustee list
• ASTLE, Thomas John Howard — director, appointed 13/08/2025not on trustee list
• BARKS, Andrew John — director, appointed 13/08/2025on trustee list
• BIANCHI, Robert — director, appointed 13/08/2025on trustee list
• CORBINO, Davide Raffaele — director, appointed 13/08/2025on trustee list
• COOPER, Stephen Thomas — director, appointed 13/08/2025on trustee list
• CLARKE, Carol Ann — director, appointed 12/10/2022on trustee list
• WOODS, Mark Edward — director, appointed 01/09/2014on trustee list
• WIGNALL, Gillian — secretary, appointed 11/11/2020

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Barks
• Carol Ann Clarke
• Christopher Racher
• Davide Raffaele Corbino
• MARK WOODS
• Robert Bianchi
• Stephen Thomas Cooper
• Tom Astle

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHEFFIELD UNITED COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

• SHEFFIELD UNITED COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £2.5m
• PONTEFRACT FAMILY CENTRE income £192k
• PRIME EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £558k
• PUDSEY WELLBEING CHARITY income £72k
• BEDFORDSHIRE AND LUTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £5.3m
• NHANCED COMMUNITIES income £182k

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