Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 3
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 5 ?

YORK CITY FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION 

YCFC Foundation supports the local community by providing sport and physical activity; educational; social and healthy lifestyle opportunities, and ensuring that our contributions have a realistic opportunity of making a positive impact, informed by the premise that activities encourage engagement, reduce social isolation, improve physical and mental wellbeing, confidence and resilience.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 9 years

https://www.yorkcityfootballclub.co.uk/club/f

enquiries@yorkcityfcfoundation.co.uk

01904559508

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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
30/06/23£489£487£2n/an/an/an/an/a2
30/06/22£397£380£17n/an/an/an/an/a4
30/06/21*£297£280£17n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/06/20£293£309£-16n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/06/19£370£368£2n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/06/18£353£352£1£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/17*£331£400£-69£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/16£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • City Of York, North Yorkshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 2 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
Sport England£8,625
Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust£4,950
Joseph Rowntree Foundation£4,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£8,625 19/06/2020
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 Sport participation and capacity ....more
Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust - Happy Healthy Holidays
£4,950 05/05/2020
To provide free multi-activity days and access to healthy snacks during the school holidays in October half-term and Easter
Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Footie Fun and Food – Addressing Holiday Hunger, Isolation and Physical Activity
£4,000 30/04/2019
To provide holiday sports sessions for young people from disadvantaged families in Clifton, Acomb, Westfield and Tang Hall, which will include fun and informal football activities as well as healthy ....more
Two Ridings Community Foundation - Sporting Memories
£5,000 12/09/2018
Funding for a Sporting Memories programme which engages with older people affected by dementia.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 42-68
  • MARK COULSON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Director Of Programmes
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/11/2014, number: 1159325
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/07/2014, number: 09138052
Gift Aid
  • 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
8 returns made; AR21: 5 days late, AR17: 4 days late,
Main office

York City Football Club Foundation
York Community Stadium
Kathryn Avenue
Huntington
YORK
YO32 9AF

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY, BOTH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE INHABITANTS OF YORK AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS:3.1 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);3.2 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;3.3 TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND TO PRESERVE AND PROMOTE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH HEALTHY RECREATION AND SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT;3.4 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING ACADEMIC, SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION) OF CHILDREN AND OTHER PERSONS THROUGH SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT; AND3.5 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

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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