GRASSROOT SOCCER (UK)

Registered charity 1135364 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grassroot Soccer is an adolescent health organization that leverages the power of soccer to educate, inspire, and mobilize youth in developing countries to overcome their greatest health challenges, live healthier, more productive lives, and be agents for change in their communities.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("OBJECTS") ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:4.1 TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN AFRICA BY PROVIDING ADVICE ANDASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:(A) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIALWELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMICCIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR ON THE SUBJECT OF HIV AND AIDS;4.2 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: AFRICA

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 · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

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Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07120992

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.

• KOVALEVA, Rachel Annabelle, Ms. — director, appointed 30/09/2024on trustee list
• MOORE HOBBIS, Roberta, Ms. — director, appointed 30/09/2024not on trustee list
• GALLAGHER, David Kevin, Mr. — director, appointed 15/07/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~8.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 24.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Gallagher
• Rachel Annabelle Kovaleva
• Roberta Moore Hobbis

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

Operates in: Ethiopia · Kenya · Malawi · Nigeria · South Africa · Throughout London · United States · Zambia · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

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