Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: -7
Support Score: 5
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • All male board: -3
  • Multiple returns filed late: -2
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 1 ?

COUGARMANIA FOUNDATION

What the charity does:Education/training; The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives; Disability; Amateur SportWho the charity helps:Children/young People; Elderly; People With Disabilities; People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin; Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies; The General Public/mankindHow the charity helps:Provides Services; Provides Advocacy/advice/information.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers including the Government recently and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why is the Board completely male?
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
  • Returns have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 2 years and the current period appears to have been extended

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
  • 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 Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
30/04/23*£32£39£-7n/a
30/04/22*£23£17£5n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 4 years

adrian@moochies.com

01535606044

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • General Community services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bradford 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 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£19,241
Sport England£11,185
Sir George Martin Trust£10,000
Leeds Community Foundation£6,300
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Cougar LGBTQ Community Hub
£9,396 09/06/2023
The project will use funding to develop a community hub for the local LGBTQ community. The hub will provide activities services and volunteering opportunities to address health inequalities and promote cohesion with the aim to reduce isolation and ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Health Days
£4,500 16/09/2022
Grant to Cougar Foundation
Sport England - Jubilee Fund - Healthy & Happy
£8,660 30/05/2022
Happy and Healthy is designed as an after school club. There will be 4 sessions per week based at Keighley Cougars RLFC, which each session lasting 2 hours and the project will run initially for 16 weeks. Priority will be given to those young people ....more
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Cougarmania Foundation
£5,000 28/02/2022
Capital and core costs for Youth Welfare & Education
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Cougarmania Foundation
£5,000 28/02/2022
Capital and core costs for Youth Welfare & Education
Leeds Community Foundation - Healthy & Happy Kids
£1,800 26/11/2021
The primary goal of our project is to provide children with a safe and secure space in which they are encouraged to express their emotional voice through healthy lifestyle activities
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£2,525 22/11/2021
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 beneficiaries.
National Lottery Community Fund - Cougar Team Talk
£9,845 28/10/2021
The funding will be used to deliver a men's mental health peer led support group. The group will run weekly sessions that will offer various low level mental health improvement techniques to help improve men's mental health within the community.
National Lottery Community Fund - Creation of a Community Class Room
£10,000 13/06/2019
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The funding will be used to create a community classroom in order to provide a range of activities to people in the community, which will increase confidence and skills in those taking part.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees:
  • ADRIAN JOCELYN LISLE (Chair) Appointed: 2022
  • ANDREW DERI WOODS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Chartered Accountant
  • MARCUS NIALL KILGOUR Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Company Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/01/2021, number: 1192949
  • Registered at Companies House on 15/04/2019, number: 11948021
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
  • Investment
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
2 returns made; AR23: 42 days late, AR22: 44 days late,
Main office

KEIGHLEY COUGARS
COUGAR PARK
HARD INGS ROAD
KEIGHLEY
BD21 3RF

Objectives

4. THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY (OBJECTS), TO BE UNDERTAKEN IN KEIGHLEY AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS, ARE:(1) TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:(A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION;(C) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.(2) TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES OR SERVICES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS.(3) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC RELATING TO THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF THE RUGBY LEAGUE IN THE TOWN OF KEIGHLEY BY ESTABLISHING, MAINTAINING AND OPERATING A HERITAGE CENTRE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FOR THE EXHIBITION AND PRESERVATION OF HERITAGE RESOURCES AND OTHER ITEMS OF EDUCATIONAL AND/OR HISTORIC VALUE OR SIGNIFICANCE AND PROMOTING THE USE OF SUCH MATERIALS FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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