FOOTBALL UNITES RACISM DIVIDES EDUCATIONAL TRUST

Registered charity 1149203 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5465916 · Wikipedia · also known as FURD

The objects of the charitable company are to promote equality of opportunity and good relations between people of different racial groups, especially within the area of benefit, particularly through the medium of football and other amateur sports, recreational or leisure-time activities. The organisational activities of the FURD Trust are gradually being migrated across to the charitable company.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ('THE OBJECTS') ARE TO PROMOTE EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS, ESPECIALLY WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT, PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF FOOTBALL AND THROUGH OTHER AMATEUR SPORTS AND RECREATIONAL OR LEISURE-TIME ACTIVITIES. THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED BY3.2.1 THE PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ANTI-RACIST EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR OF YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 263.2.2 INCREASING THE ACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF ETHNIC MINORITIES WITHIN ALL ASPECTS OF AMATEUR SPORT AND OTHER RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE-TIME ACTIVITIES INTENDED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;3.2.3 SECURING A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR PEOPLE FROM ALL COMMUNITIES TO PARTICIPATE IN AMATEUR SPORTS AND OTHER RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE-TIME ACTIVITIES.

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £324,492 are held, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover 9.6 months of operating expenditure against a policy target of 6-12 months. The filing confirms there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

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• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08169407 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Football Unites, Racism Divides (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• AHMED, Jhangir — director, appointed 02/10/2024on trustee list
• RAOUF, Maroof — director, appointed 06/02/2023on trustee list
• CALLAGHAN, Julie — director, appointed 10/11/2022on trustee list
• AHMED, Muetesim — director, appointed 18/08/2022on trustee list
• KHAN, Ayesha — director, appointed 18/08/2022on trustee list
• BELL, Derek — director, appointed 02/01/2020on trustee list
• MUJAKACHI, Victor — director, appointed 28/01/2019on trustee list
• ROBERTS, Jonathan Paul — director, appointed 31/10/2017on trustee list
• HOLMES, Howard John — director, appointed 12/08/2014on trustee list
• GULFRAZ, Farhaan — director, appointed 12/08/2014on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• HOWARD JOHN HOLMESchair
• Ayesha Khan
• Derek Bell
• FARHAAN GULFRAZ
• Jhangir Ahmed
• Jonathan Paul Roberts
• Julie Callaghan
• KEVIN PETER TITTERTON
• Maroof Raouf Cllr
• Muetesim Ahmed
• Saudat Adinani
• Victor Vincent MUJAKACHI · trustee of 5 other charities

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Doncaster · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with READING FC COMMUNITY TRUST.

• READING FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £2.4m
• RACE EQUALITY FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• LONG EATON UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED income £377k
• THE LEEDS UNITED FOUNDATION income £2.4m
• MULTI-RACIAL TRUST income £38k
• MAIDENHEAD UNITED FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £394k

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