Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 7
  • No PartB
  • All male board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

STREET SOCCER ACADEMY 

The charity's principal activities are:- the advancement of education;- to promote social inclusion; and- the promotion of participation in healthy recreation through sport and in particular (but without limitation) the provision of football based activities
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely male

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

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
31/12/22£316£280£36n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/12/21£263£231£32n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/12/20£260£221£39n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/12/19£254£244£10n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/12/18£383£343£40£0£0£0n/a012
31/12/17£193£208£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£188£222£-33£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£251£175£76£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£198£176£23£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£156£159£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£140£124£16£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£103£73£31£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 13 years

www.streetsocceracademy.co.uk

info@streetsocceracademy.co.uk

01204 963972

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Education/Training
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Sports activities
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bolton, Bury, Lancashire, Manchester City, Stockport, Wrexham,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 4 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
Henry Smith Charity£170,400
National Lottery Community Fund£131,988
DCMS£7,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Street Soccer Academy Regional Centres
£131,988 05/08/2021
Street Soccer Academy provides support to disadvantaged people using football sessions to engage with participants. The organisation provides support with issues such as accommodation employment and ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£7,000 14/07/2020
"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
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Street Soccer Academy
£170,400 19/03/2020
36
towards three years' costs of the Custody to Community programme, providing employment and training support to inmates at HMP Forest Bank
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Street Soccer Academy
£72,706 20/07/2016
36
Supporting very marginalised people to improve life skills through sport with the aim of enabling them to move closer to the labour market. The grant will fund the salary of an Area Manager working ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Street Soccer Academy
£20,000 25/10/2013
provides a range of sporting activities which improves the life chances & choices of disadvantaged and isolated people and better equips them to reintegrate into the wider community
Sport England - Accrington Regional Centre
£3,800 08/06/2012
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Accrington Regional Centre'. This project lists its main activity as Association Football.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 39-58
  • MARK TURLEY Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Divisional Manager
  • SIMON DIXON Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Head Of Leveraged Finance
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/02/2011, number: 1140394
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/09/2010, number: 07370021
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
12 returns made; all on time
Main office

1 - 3 The Courtyard
Calvin Street
Bolton
BL1 8PB

Objectives

1) ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, WITH A BROADLY BASED CHRISTIAN ETHOS. PRIMARILY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM GENERALLY, BUT AT THE TRUSTEES DISCRETION THE REST OF THE WORLD, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE LEARNING BY DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE (BY MEANS OF ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, LOW ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, LACK OF EMPLOYMENT OR TRAINING) AND/OR MARGINALISED PEOPLE (BY MEANS OF SOCIAL STANDING/STATUS), THROUGH THE CONTINUAL DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPABILITIES, COMPETENCIES, SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING IN SUBJECTS OF EDUCATIONAL VALUEFOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE 'CHRISTIAN ETHOS' MEANS THE FUNDAMENTAL VALUES BASED ON THE TEACHINGS, ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES OF MAINSTREAM CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS OF ENGLAND & WALES.2) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION, BASED UPON BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES. PRIMARILY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM GENERALLY, BUT AT THE TRUSTEES DISCRETION THE REST OF THE WORLD, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE 'BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES' MEANS IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) THE PRINCIPLES OF INTEGRITY, EXCELLENCE AND COMPASSION.SOCIALLY EXCLUDED MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY). 3) PROMOTION OF PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION THROUGH SPORT AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) THE PROVISION OF FOOTBALL BASED ACTIVITIES, PRIMARILY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM GENERALLY, BUT AT THE TRUSTEES DISCRETION THE REST OF THE WORLD.

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE UNITED KINGDOM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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