HORDEN COMMUNITY WELFARE FOOTBALL CLUB

Registered charity 1202870 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The promotion of community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for the playing of Association Football and activities capable of improving physical fitness, health and well-being for the benefit of children, young people and adults within the community of Horden, County Durham and its surrounding areas.

Objects

3.1 THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY, IN PARTICULAR, THE INHABITANTS OF HORDEN AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS: 3.1.1 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 ARTICLE 3 MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES); 3.1.2 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, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, 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. 3.1.3 TO FURTHER SUCH PURPOSES WHICH ARE CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT 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.

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the financial year with a net cash inflow of £608 and total cash reserves of £6,077. The trustees note that the cost-of-living crisis has increased charitable activity costs and overheads to £69,132, but the charity maintains a reasonable financial position with no significant liabilities.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Cainchair
• Janet Payne
• Malcolm Yorke
• Ryan Cuthbert
• Tim Girvan

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

Operates in: Durham

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOWDEN AFC.

• HOWDEN AFC income £134k
• TEDDINGTON ATHLETIC FOOTBALL CLUB income £194k
• EGERTON FOOTBALL CLUB income £294k
• WATFORD FC'S COMMUNITY SPORTS & EDUCATION TRUST income £3.0m
• ROCHDALE AFC FOOTBALL IN THE COMMUNITY TRUST income £529k
• SUFFOLK COUNTY FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £950k

Side by side with its peers

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