ORPINGTON FOOTBALL CLUB

Registered charity 1189215 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ORPINGTON FC

Football Club

Objects

TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF ORPINGTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR PLAYING ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL.TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF ORPINGTON 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.

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 profit of £61,221 for the period, with total income of £212,288 and expenditure of £151,067. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves are £36,000, which meets the stated policy target of covering three months of committed operational costs.

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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 12570232

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Orpington FC (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.

• KETTLE, Richard — director, appointed 13/03/2025on trustee list
• COVILL, Julie Ann — director, appointed 13/07/2020on trustee list
• INGRAM, Andrew John — director, appointed 13/07/2020on trustee list
• SHRUBSHALL, Thomas James — director, appointed 13/07/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Ingram
• JULIE ANN COVILL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Kettle
• Thomas Shrubshall

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

Operates in: Bromley · Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• BERKS COUNTY FOOTBALL CLUB income £188k
• WINTON WANDERERS FOOTBALL CLUB income £283k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ORPINGTON income £224k
• HEPWORTH UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB income £183k
• MIDDLESEX COUNTY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £1.6m
• ORPINGTON BAPTIST CHURCH income £331k

Side by side with its peers

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