Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 6
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
    • Grant maker support: +6
    Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

    FEATHERSTONE ROVERS FOUNDATION 

    To equip the local community with the skills to lead fulfilled healthy and active lifestyles through the power of Rugby League and the Featherstone Rovers brand. To support the community of Featherstone and former 5 Towns area to ensure everyone has the right to develop skills to maximise their potential regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, sexual orientation & ethnic background
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

    Financial issues to consider:

    • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
    • Income was lower than spending in the latest year

    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
    30/11/22£149£177£-28n/an/an/an/an/a25
    30/11/21£213£153£59n/an/an/an/an/a20
    30/11/20£103£95£8n/an/an/an/an/a25
    30/11/19£160£169£-8n/an/an/an/an/a25
    30/11/18£168£165£3£0£0£0n/a035
    30/11/17£156£132£24£0£0£0n/a00
    30/11/16*£121£106£15£0£0£0n/a00
    30/11/15£153£151£1£0£0£0n/a00
    30/11/14*£112£115£-3£0£0£0n/a00
    30/11/13£156£147£10£0£0£0n/a00
    30/11/12?*£132£133£-1£0£0£0n/a00
    31/08/11*£67£65£2£0£0£0n/a00
    31/08/10*£82£84£-2£0£0£0n/a00
    31/08/09*£42£46£-3£0£0£0n/a00
    31/08/08*£10£3£7£0£0£0n/a00

    Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
    Established: 17 years

    www.featherstoneroversfoundation.org

    amy.hardman@featherstonerovers.co.uk

    01977702386

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    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • Amateur Sport
    • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
    • Disability
    • Education/Training
    • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
    GiG Classification
    • Other facilities management and maintenance
    How it operates
    • Other charitable activities
    • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
    • Provides human resources
    • Provides services
    Where it operates
    • Barnsley, City Of Wakefield, Kirklees, Leeds City,
    Who it helps
    • Children/Young People
    • Elderly/Old People
    • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
    • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
    • People With Disabilities
    • The General Public/Mankind
    Who works here?
    • Unknown number of employees
    • 25 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
    DCMS£19,552
    Leeds Community Foundation£19,552
    Co-Operative Group£10,151
    National Lottery Community Fund£9,960
    Nova Wakefield£7,241
    Sir George Martin Trust£6,000
    Cheshire Community Foundation£5,150
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Nova Wakefield - Grant to Featherstone Rovers Foundation
    £7,241 23/05/2023
    We deliver projects and activities within the Featherstone, former 5 towns area and wider parts of the Wakefield District. We use the power of sport and the Featherstone Rovers RLFC reputation to ....more
    Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Featherstone Rovers Foundation
    £3,000 28/02/2022
    Core costs for Older People's Welfare
    Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Featherstone Rovers Foundation
    £3,000 28/02/2022
    Core costs for Older People's Welfare
    National Lottery Community Fund - Rovers Tots
    £9,960 28/10/2021
    The funding will be used to host two weekly parent and toddler activity groups offering a range of creative play activities as well as run a number of focused events for families. The project aims to ....more
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to Featherstone Rovers Foundation
    £5,128 23/10/2021
    The Offload Project provides mental health awareness and literacy and social support for men from disadvantaged areas, focusing on topics including coping with stress and managing emotions.
    Cheshire Community Foundation - Rovers Tots
    £5,150 05/06/2021
    Featherstone Rovers Foundation (FRF) is committed to providing engagement opportunities for our local communities to support them to lead a happy, healthy and fulfilled lives. The Rovers Tots project ....more
    Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to Featherstone Rovers Foundation
    £19,552 02/09/2020
    5
    To enable Featherstone Rovers Foundation to continue to operate and deliver our charitable objectives despite being faced with adversity due to the Coronavirus pandemic. We want to support our local ....more
    DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
    £19,552 02/09/2020
    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
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to Featherstone Rovers Foundation
    £5,023 15/11/2019
    We want to run a men's weight-management project to promote men's health in the local area.
    Woodward Charitable Trust - Help young offenders develop skills for life outside custody
    £720 02/04/2019
    Towards a pilot project to help young offenders develop skills for life outside custody.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Rovers Tots
    £9,860 20/12/2017
    12
    The group will run parent and toddler group sessions to encourage creative play and to bring local families together.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Rovers...Days to remember!
    £10,000 08/10/2014
    12
    Not Available
    Sport England - Fully accessible gym and changing rooms
    £50,000 14/01/2013
    Funding under Sport England's Inspired Facilities funding programme for a Capital project titled 'Fully accessible gym and changing rooms'. This project is a Rugby League project, with a focus on ....more
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees (9)
    Current Trustees appointed
    Gender Split

    Age Range of Trustees: 58-77
    Legal constitution
    • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/03/2007, number: 1118452
    • Registered at Companies House on 12/06/2006, number: 05843686
    Gift Aid
    • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
    Policies in force
    • Complaints handling
    • Conflicting interests
    • Paying staff
    • Risk management
    • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
    • Volunteer management
    Filing Record
    15 returns made; AR16: 3 days late, AR14: 22 days late, AR12: 52 days late, AR11: 45 days late, AR10: 130 days late, AR09: 209 days late, AR08: 22 days late,
    Main office

    MILLENNIUM STADIUM
    Post Office Road
    Featherstone
    Pontefract
    West Yorkshire
    WF7 5EN

    Objectives

    3.1) TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF RUGBY AND OTHER SPORTS CAPABLE OF IMPROVING HEALTH (FACILITIES IN THIS CLAUSE 3 MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES);3.2) 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; AND3.3) 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:

    NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE WEST YORKSHIRE

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for England and Wales
    360 Giving
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