THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE (COMMUNITY) LIMITED

Registered charity 1132689 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

to promote physical education; to promote community participation in football and sports capable of improving physical healthto assist in providing facilities for sport and recreation of such persons who have need for such facilities in the interest of social welfare.to advance the education of the public and to provide opportunities for them to develop their full capabilities.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE "OBJECTS") ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN GENERAL THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND WALES AS FOLLOWS: (A) TO PROMOTE PHYSICAL EDUCATION;(B) TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF FOOTBALL AND OTHER SPORTS CAPABLE OF IMPROVING PHYSICAL HEALTH;(C) TO ASSIST (WHETHER BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL OR SUCH OTHER ASSISTANCE AS MAY BE DEEMED APPROPRIATE BY THE TRUSTEES) 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; (D) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEM TO DEVELOP THEIR FULL CAPACITIES AND ENABLE THEM TO BECOME RESPONSIBLE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED: AND (E) THE FURTHERANCE OF SUCH A CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.IN THESE ARTICLES, THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHARITY FROM TIME TO TIME SHALL REFERRED TO AS THE "TRUSTEES".

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Preston, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 22% to £15.7m, while total expenditure rose by 18% to £15.8m, resulting in a net decrease in unrestricted funds. The charity maintains free reserves of £4.6m, which the trustees consider adequate to meet unrestricted expenditure for the foreseeable future and significantly above their strategic reserve target of £2.15m. The trustees and auditors confirm the organization is a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. 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
• Investment
• 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

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2021 (received 03/05/2022, 3 days after the 30/04/2022 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% 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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Liam Scullychair
• Carol Shanahan
• Caroline Elizabeth Artis · trustee of 4 other charities
• Christopher John Robert Bailey
• Daniel James Plumley
• Lauren Jane O'Sullivan
• MONICA SHAFAQ · trustee of 4 other charities
• Nicholas Perchard
• Philip James Woodward
• Roger Shepherd
• Sara Alice Kroeger Britcliffe
• Trevor Birch

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONG EATON UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED.

• LONG EATON UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED income £377k
• SUFFOLK COUNTY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £950k
• SURREY COUNTY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £1.6m
• FULHAM FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION income £2.9m
• SHEFFIELD AND HALLAMSHIRE COUNTY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £1.2m
• MIDDLESBROUGH FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION income £2.6m

Side by side with its peers

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