AFC FYLDE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1163911 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The AFC Fylde Community Foundation, works within the Borough of Fylde and where applicable West Lancashire in order to deliver a range of enriching, life changing and person centred interventions.The Foundation, uses the power of sport in order to reach out to members of the community who face significant disadvantage, using a range of person centred tools to sustain positive change.

Objects

1 TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF LANCASHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA 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 INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS. WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FORGOING BY THE PROVISION OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SPORT OF FOOTBALL IN ALL WAYS AND ACCORDING TO ALL ABILITIES;2 SUCH OF OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION MAY DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME.

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 · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Fylde, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity produced a small surplus of £7,706 for the year ended 31 May 2025, with total income of £628,044 and expenditure of £620,338. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £219,442, which is below the stated policy target of six months' operating costs (approximately £309,018). The trustees acknowledge this shortfall but remain committed to working towards the target.

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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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)

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09411676 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — AFC Fylde Community Foundation (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.

• JACKSON, Kate — director, appointed 15/12/2023not on trustee list
• BYRNE, Geraldine — director, appointed 29/06/2023on trustee list
• FITZPATRICK, Thomas Michael — director, appointed 01/04/2022on trustee list
• BRAMMALL, Christopher Mark — director, appointed 01/04/2022on trustee list
• EDMUNDSON, David Martin Robert — director, appointed 01/04/2022on trustee list
• CALLAND, Lesley Ann — director, appointed 22/12/2021on trustee list
• LANCASTER, Richard — director, appointed 17/12/2020on trustee list
• THRELFALL, Michael — director, appointed 28/01/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Edmundsonchair
• Christopher Mark Brammall
• Geraldine Byrne
• Kate Nuttall
• Lesley Ann Calland
• MICHAEL THRELFALL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Lancaster
• Thomas Michael Fitzpatrick

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROCHDALE AFC FOOTBALL IN THE COMMUNITY TRUST.

• ROCHDALE AFC FOOTBALL IN THE COMMUNITY TRUST income £529k
• ALVECHURCH FC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £474k
• CARDIFF CITY FC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.8m
• MACCLESFIELD FC COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST LTD income £186k
• FULHAM FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION income £2.9m
• BRENTFORD FC COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST income £4.4m

Side by side with its peers

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