CHESTER FC COMMUNITY TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1174370 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The promotion of sport, education, health and inclusion for the benefit of communities in Chester and its surrounding areas using football as a vehicle for change.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF CHESTER AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS 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 SAID INHABITANTS. WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY THE PROVISION OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SPORT OF FOOTBALL IN ALL WAYS ACCORDING TO ALL ABILITIES;TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE HEALTH OF PEOPLE IN CHESTER AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) BY THE OPERATION OF HEALTHY LIFESTYLE INITIATIVES;FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING) OF PEOPLE IN CHESTER AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT;SUCH 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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cheshire West and Chester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating loss of £38,763 for the year ended 31 May 2025, with total income of £376,391 and total expenditure of £415,153. The trustees report unrestricted reserves of £389,390, which they consider sufficient to meet at least three months of operating costs. The charity is not required to be audited and underwent an independent examination instead.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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)

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2023 (received 15/08/2024, 16 days after the 30/07/2024 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Chester FC Community Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~15.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (69% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID EVANSchair
• Christopher Gordon Roberston
• MARTIN JAMES WILLIAMS
• MICHAEL JAMES VICKERS
• Michael Kevin Day
• SUSAN WINIFRED PEARSON

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Flintshire · Shropshire · Wirral · Wrexham

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LEICESTER CITY FOOTBALL CLUB TRUST LIMITED.

• LEICESTER CITY FOOTBALL CLUB TRUST LIMITED income £2.0m
• FARNBOROUGH FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £65k
• CHELTENHAM TOWN COMMUNITY TRUST income £442k
• EASTLEIGH FOOTBALL CLUB COMMUNITY TRUST income £50k
• THE TOWCESTER COMMUNITY CENTRE TRUST income £7k
• CHESTERFIELD F C COMMUNITY TRUST income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.