SPORTING 87 FOOTBALL CLUB

Registered charity 1162311 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Community based football club serving Bury St Edmunds and the surrounding area. We provide football games and coaching within our teams for more than 600 children aged between 5 and 18. The club is also involved in the towns schools delivering lessons and after school clubs.

Objects

THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:- 1) TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR PLAYING FOOTBALL; AND 2) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF FAITH ATTACHED HERETO.”

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a small operating surplus of £5,655 for the year ended 31 May 2025, reversing a loss from the previous year. However, the trustees report that club finances remain tight, and the entity holds net assets of £17,602 against current liabilities of £22,593. The filing notes no material uncertainties regarding going concern, relying on the small companies regime exemptions.

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sporting 87 Football Club (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• JONATHAN WARNOCKchair
• DARREN BROWN
• NIGEL JOHNSON

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BURY TOWN COMMUNITY FOOTBALL CLUB.

• BURY TOWN COMMUNITY FOOTBALL CLUB income £106k
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• SUTTON COLDFIELD TOWN BOYS AND YOUTH SPORTS CLUB income £180k
• NEW FORDLEY JUNIORS FOOTBALL CLUB income £452k
• Sandgate Youth Football Club income £125k
• NORTHANTS FUNDAMENTAL FOOTBALL CLUB income £117k

Side by side with its peers

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