COMMUNITY FOOTBALL ACADEMY (CFA)

Registered charity 1149497 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CFA

Football Coaching & FitnessFootball Tournaments for children & Adults to promote community cohesion & intergrationLife skill workshopsTO PROVIDE RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUISVELY THE PLAYING OF FOOTBALL,PROVIDED IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Objects

1.TO PROVIDE RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUISVELY THE PLAYING OF FOOTBALL,PROVIDED IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.2.TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH,AGE,INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT,FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERSETS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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 · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leicester, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity received £66,537 in donations and incurred total payments of £63,832, resulting in a net surplus of £2,705 for the period. The trustees declare that no funds are in deficit and the funds are in surplus at the balance sheet date. The charity does not have a stated reserve policy.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 5 were received after the due date: year ending 01/04/2025 (received 10/03/2026, 37 days after the 01/02/2026 due date); year ending 01/04/2024 (received 04/02/2025, 3 days after the 01/02/2025 due date); year ending 01/04/2023 (received 30/03/2024, 58 days after the 01/02/2024 due date); year ending 01/04/2022 (received 01/05/2023, 89 days after the 01/02/2023 due date); year ending 01/04/2021 (received 18/02/2022, 17 days after the 01/02/2022 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• AHMED MARAVIA
• Adam Maravia
• FAIZAL PATEL
• MOHAMMED HAFEJEE
• Sazid Seedat

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

Operates in: Albania · Kirklees · Lancashire · Leicester City · Leicestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FULHAM FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION.

• FULHAM FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION income £2.9m
• CARDIFF CITY FC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.8m
• SUFFOLK COUNTY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £950k
• MARCH ACADEMY FC income £34k
• BRADFORD CITY FC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £987k
• THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION BENEVOLENT FUND income £141k

Side by side with its peers

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