Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 6
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

NORWICH CITY COMMUNITY SPORTS FOUNDATION 

The Community Sports Foundation is Norwich City FC's official charityWe use the power of sport to support and inspire our community. Our charitable objectives are driving inclusion for people with disabilities, boosting mental health and wellbeing, and supporting disadvantaged people to raise their aspirations.
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Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

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£5,693£5,232£461£567£2,526£2,4005.5105150
31/12/21£4,590£4,310£280£280£2,071£1,9455.4131150
31/12/20£3,886£4,098£-213£417£1,790£1,6054.7124150
31/12/19£4,842£4,828£14£540£2,003£1,6774.2140500
31/12/18£4,532£4,523£9£502£1,993£1,5734.2145550
31/12/17*£4,269£4,255£14£428£1,984£1,9845.61400
31/12/16£4,592£4,361£231£313£1,970£1,8975.2790
31/12/15£4,110£3,976£134£162£1,740£1,6374.9500
31/12/14£3,355£3,056£299£61£1,606£1,5045.9550
31/12/13£2,366£2,001£366£72£1,307£1,1777.1520
31/12/12£1,798£1,493£306£72£942£7135.7350
31/12/11£1,810£1,730£80£79£636£5213.6450
31/12/10£1,675£1,604£71£76£556£4053380
31/12/09£1,417£1,190£227£71£485£3413.4320
31/12/08£986£907£79£57£258£610.8280
30/12/07£829£819£10£69£180£851.2310
30/12/06£789£774£16£0£0£0n/a00
30/12/05£706£752£-46£0£0£0n/a00
30/12/04£727£669£58£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 10.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 10.8%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 5%
Highest pay band: £90,000-£100,000
Liabilities/Assets: 73%
Liabilities/Income: 118%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 95%
Reserves/Spending: 5.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -8 months
Quick Ratio: 0.4
Asset Split ?
Established: 23 years

www.communitysportsfoundation.org.uk

csfmailbox@norwichcitycsf.org.uk

01603761122

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Poverty relief
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Peterborough City, Suffolk,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 105 employees
  • 150 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
Masonic Trust£45,000
BBC Children in Need£26,681
DCMS£17,532
Sport England£9,474
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Large Grant
£45,000 16/03/2023
Onside - whole family support for children and young people at risk of crime and ASB, mental health and behavioural issues, and low educational engagement.
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£4,482 23/11/2021
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on older ....more
Sport England - Let's Dance
£4,992 02/08/2021
12
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Let's Dance. This project is a Exercise & Fitness project, with a focus on ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Norwich City Community Sports Foundation
£26,681 30/11/2020
This project will provide a sports based programme working with children with additional support needs impacted by the C-19 pandemic. The activities will increase physical activity, improve emotional ....more
Suffolk Community Foundation - Walking Football in Beccles
£4,837 10/11/2020
11
Supporting walking football in Beccles.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£8,050 07/07/2020
"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
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£9,482 02/06/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Street Life Soccer
£397,106 09/03/2011
60
This is a continuation and expansion of an existing project that uses football as a means to engage with and provide learning and support to hard to reach people such as homeless and vulnerably ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 42-68
  • GAVIN DRAKE Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Owner/Director
  • SIMON GEORGE Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Executive Director Of Finance
  • ZOE WEBBER Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Business & Project Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/08/2001, number: 1088239
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/11/2000, number: 04100611
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR17: 36 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from NORWICH CITY POWERCHAIR FOOTBALL CLUB on 13/01/2023
Main office

COMMUNITY SPORTS FOUNDATION
NORWICH CITY FC
CARROW ROAD
NORWICH
NORFOLK
NR1 1JE

Objectives

. THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (OBJECTS) ARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO RACE, SEX, CREED OR SOCIAL BACKGROUND, FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN, STUDENTS AND ADULTS IN NORFOLK AND OTHER COUNTIES IN EAST ANGLIA: 3.1 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING ACADEMIC, SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION) OF SUCH PEOPLE THROUGH SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT; 3.2 TO ENCOURAGE SUCH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GAME OF FOOTBALL, OTHER LEISURE-TIME ACTIVITIES AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES SO THAT THEY MIGHT GROW TO MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND TRUSTEES OF SOCIETY AND SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.; 3.3 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 MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES); 3.4 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; 3.5 FOR THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES OR FOR SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN EACH CASE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NORFOLK

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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