Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 5
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

ROTHERHAM UNITED COMMUNITY TRUST 

The Charity provides opportunities for children and young people of all abilities to engage in football and other sporting activities by providing activities and venues within Rotherham and its surrounding areas for children and young people to play sport and to benefit from qualified football coaching.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/08/23£1,787£1,771£16£0£1,022£1340.9558
31/08/22£2,141£1,932£209£0£1,006£2751.7618
31/08/21£1,557£1,267£290£0£796£2952.8578
31/08/20£1,428£1,211£218£0£506£40346616
31/08/19*£1,430£1,554£-124£0£289£2071.68510
31/08/18£1,516£1,501£15£0£413£2592.1740
31/08/17£1,289£1,266£23£0£397£1991.9700
31/08/16£995£952£44£0£374£841.1550
31/08/15£859£822£37£0£330£2503.6300
31/08/14£811£800£10£0£293£2273.4220
31/08/13£872£861£11£0£283£2223.1220
31/08/12£815£767£48£4£272£470.7250
31/08/11£699£629£69£5£223£410.8250
31/08/10£459£367£92£0£0£0n/a00
31/08/09£226£179£46£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 4%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 24%
Liabilities/Income: 18%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 13%
Reserves/Spending: 0.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 3.3
Asset Split ?
Established: 16 years

www.themillers.co.uk

jamie@rotherhamunited.net

01709827767

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Sports activities
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 55 employees
  • 8 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£28,950
Department for Work and Pensions£22,666
BBC Children in Need£16,000
Sport England£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Health For All
£10,000 28/01/2022
The funding will be used to run health and wellbeing sessions to support refugee community members. The project aims to engage refugees in sport and mental health promotion and will support with ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Rotherham United Community Sports Trust
£16,000 30/11/2020
This project will deliver issues based youth work to young people living in Rotherham who are experiencing poverty and poor mental health. Friendships will increase and confidence and aspirations ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,985 09/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£10,000 26/05/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Association Football
National Lottery Community Fund - Covid-19 - Passing Back
£9,100 22/05/2020
16
The funding will be used to provide telephone support and a drop off service with essentials to people impacted by COVID-19. The project aims to support people with their mental health and help ....more
Department for Work and Pensions - FSF Partnership Rotherham United Community Trust
£22,666 01/04/2020
Grant to move claimants either into work or closer to work by providing Youth Hubs to support claimants towards work
Sport England - Flood Relief
£5,000 20/03/2020
13
Funding under Sport England's Community Asset Fund funding programme for a Capital project titled Flood Relief. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports
National Lottery Community Fund - Bridging the Gap
£9,850 09/10/2019
12
Bridging the Gap
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Rotherham United Community Sports Trust
£1,300 06/03/2019
towards a one day trip to Manchester for a group of disadvantaged children from South Yorkshire
National Lottery Community Fund - emotional resilience and wellbeing
£10,000 03/05/2018
12
The group will create a wellbeing hub for people with mental health issues, providing a support network along with access to social, physical and education activities to build resilience and improve ....more
Sport England - Sport for All
£26,895 09/06/2017
45
Funding under Sport England's Inclusive Sport funding programme for a Revenue project titled Sport for All. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Rotherham United Community Sports Trust
£109,008 09/02/2017
36
Health Kick - delivering a variety of outreach activities and training as health advocates to 11-18 year olds in Rotherham. The aim is to increase health awareness, promotion, social skills and ....more
Sport England - Back in to Sport
£179,770 24/08/2015
36
Funding under Sport England's Community Sport Activation Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Back in to Sport'. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries ....more
Sport England - RUCST School Futsal programme
£7,135 11/11/2014
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'RUCST School Futsal programme'. This project is a Association Football project, with a focus on younger ....more
Sport England - SPORT FOR ALL
£195,036 21/05/2014
Funding under Sport England's Inclusive Sport funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'SPORT FOR ALL'. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Rotherham United Community Sports Trust
£30,000 29/01/2014
This charity uses sport to engage with disadvantaged communities. They will use a grant to fund a Volunteer Co-ordinator to work with young volunteers and help them to gain work experience.
National Lottery Community Fund - Connecting Communities and Young People
£10,000 30/05/2013
12
This is a project by an incorporated charity in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. The organisation will use the funding to run a film making project for young disadvantaged people. This will enable the ....more
Sport England - Aspiring Volunteers
£8,800 26/07/2012
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Aspiring Volunteers'. This project lists its main activity as Sport participation and capacity building.
Sport England - Get Set to play football
£6,500 15/12/2011
Funding under Sport England's Sportsmatch funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Get Set to play football'. This project lists its main activity as Association Football.
Sport England - The Apprentice
£9,700 20/05/2011
Funding under Sport England's Sportsmatch funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'The Apprentice'. This project lists its main activity as Association Football.
National Lottery Community Fund - Inspiring Volunteers
£10,000 28/10/2010
12
This project in Rotherham will train volunteers in various areas such as research, health and safety, sign language and translation.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/12 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 30-62
  • DANIEL WILSON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director Of Development
  • GREGORY SHONE Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Projects And Operations Manager
  • KATHRYN SMITH Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Football Development Manager For Manchester Fa
  • ZAIDAH AHMED Appointed: 2008, Occupation: Community Learning Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/04/2008, number: 1123692
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/12/2007, number: 06451012
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • 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
Filing Record
15 returns made; AR19: 13 days late,
Main office

The Goal Zone
Aesseal New York Stadium
New York Way
Rotherham
S60 1AH

Objectives

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE INHABITANTS OF SOUTH YORKSHIRE AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS:-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 3 MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES);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 INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; AND3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF CHARITY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

SOUTH YORKSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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