GATESHEAD FOOTBALL CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CIO

Registered charity 1175544 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for the playing of football and other sports capable of improving health and provide and assist in providing facilities for sport, recreation or other leisure time occupation and in advancing people's education.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR, THE INHABITANTS OF GATESGEAD AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS OF THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND TO:(1) TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL AND OTHER SPORTS CAPABLE OF IMPROVING HEALTH (FACILITIES IN THIS CLAUSE MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES); AND(2) TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR SPORT, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTEREST 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.

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Registered contact address: Gateshead, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated with minimal funding and relied heavily on unpaid volunteers during the year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £47,848 at the year end, with a net surplus of £6,764 generated from total receipts of £237,008 against payments of £230,244.

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.

• Bullying and harassment 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
• 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

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.

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emily Fawcus
• Ian Wilson
• Michael Coulson
• Peter Clennell
• Steven Thornton

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

Operates in: Durham · Gateshead · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · Northumberland · South Tyneside · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• FC HARTLEPOOL income £293k
• EGERTON FOOTBALL CLUB income £294k
• FARNBOROUGH FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £65k
• CARDIFF CITY FC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.8m
• MAIDENHEAD UNITED FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £394k
• YEOVIL TOWN COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST LIMITED income £295k

Side by side with its peers

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