CHESTERTON AMATEUR FOOTBALL CLUB

Registered charity 1138708 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The promotion of community participation in healthy recreation for the benefit of the public by the provision of facilities and making arrangement for playing football. To involve the wider community in activities such as training and providing community events

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARETHE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND MAKING ARRANGEMENTS FOR PLAYING FOOTBALL.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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

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Registered contact address: Newcastle-under-Lyme, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the books have been kept in good order and ratified against receipts. The Honorary Auditor confirms that the accounts are correct and in good order.

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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• 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 31/05/2025 (received 01/04/2026, 1 day after the 31/03/2026 due date); year ending 31/05/2023 (received 25/06/2024, 86 days after the 31/03/2024 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN DAVID MCDONALDchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID PETER GROCOTT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Delia Melissa Sale
• GEORGE LOWE
• Ian James Housley
• Mark Holland
• Robert Taylor

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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