Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 6

No PartB

Dynamic board: +3

Large volunteer base +3
Overall weighted support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 9

DARLINGTON FOOTBALL CLUB FOUNDATION

- Football activities in the community- Promote health and wellbeing- Support growth of sports clubs- Support other community activities in our area

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
31/05/23?	£59	£47	£12	n/a
31/03/22	£12	£7	£6	n/a
31/03/21	£3	£2	£1	n/a

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 5 years

neil.raper@darlingtonfc.org

07808900031

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Amateur Sport
Disability
Education/Training
General Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Community sports activities

How it operates

Makes grants to organisations
Provides services

Where it operates

Darlington, Durham, North Yorkshire, Stockton-on-tees,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Time to Talk
£10,000	01/04/2022	The funding will be used to deliver a range of social programmes and interventions at local schools and community venues to get more people talking about mental health. This will use the medium of football and provide talks weekly workshops and ....more The funding will be used to deliver a range of social programmes and interventions at local schools and community venues to get more people talking about mental health. This will use the medium of football and provide talks weekly workshops and sessions signposting to support services to improve mental health and help reduce instances of suicide in young adults.
County Durham Community Foundation - Access and Action
£5,000	31/03/2022	The Access and Action project.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

ANDREW APPLETON BROWN O.B.E. Appointed: 2019

BRIAN DOBINSON Appointed: 2024

BRIAN JEFFREY BOGGON Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired

DAVID PORTAS Appointed: 2021

MICHELLE THOMPSON B.E.M. Appointed: 2019

SAJNA SYEDA ALI Appointed: 2019

STEPHEN ROSE (Chair) Appointed: 2022

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 23/10/2019, number: 1185957

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Paying staff
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

3 returns made; all on time

Main office

Darlington Football Club
Blackwell Meadows
Grange Road
Darlington
DL1 5NR

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY, IN PARTICULAR, THE INHABITANTS OF DARLINGTON 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 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 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 SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT;3.4 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND OTHER PERSONS INCLUDING ACADEMIC, SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION) 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.

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