Football Foundation Annual Review 2014
The Football Foundation is the UK’s largest sports charity. Set up in 2000 by the Premier League, The FA and the Government, we are focused on improving public sports facilities across the country. Since 2000, we have awarded around 13,000 grants worth £510m thanks to investment provided by the Premier League, The FA and the Government, through Sport England. We have multiplied their donations by securing partnership funding totalling £720m, maximising the investment into the grassroots to the tune of more than £1.2bn.
THE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION’S BOARD OF TRUSTEES Our Board has six Trustees appointed by our funding partners, and an Independent Chairman:
Gary Hoffman (Independent Chairman)
Roger Burden (The FA)
Jonathan Hall (The FA)
The Rt Hon Richard Caborn (DCMS)
Peter McCormick OBE (Premier League)
Richard Scudamore (Premier League)
Rona Chester (Sport England – replaced Phil Smith in June 2014) Lord Pendry Football Foundation President
THE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION’S FACILITIES ASSESSMENT PANEL
Mick Dennis (Independent Deputy Chairman)
The Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund Assessment Panel assesses applications for facilities grants over £100,000. This panel is made up of the following members:
Niall O’Reilly (Independent member)
Tarun Kapur CBE (Independent Chairman)
Patrick Brosnan (Sport England)
John Denore (Independent member) Bob Knowles (Independent member) David Noble (Independent member) Simon Morgan (Premier League) Peter Kay (The FA)
WELCOME Chairman’s introduction
4
Chief Executive’s foreword
5
Programmes delivered by the Football Foundation
6
PROGRAMMES AND PARTNERSHIPS Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund
8
Increasing participation
10
Supporting coaching
12
Maximising facilities’ impact
14
Grow the Game
16
Barclays Spaces for Sport
18
Mayor of London: Sports Facilities Fund
20
EFFECTIVENESS & IMPACT 15 years of developing the most effective and efficient facilities investment systems 22 How our facilities investment benefits wider society
24
The Football Foundation 2014 at-a-glance
26
Some key events from last year 28
FINANCIAL SUMMARY Trustees Statement, Independent Auditors Statement, Opinion 30 Summary Balance Sheet, Summarised Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities 31
identified a lack of quality grassroots facilities and appropriate coaching as key obstacles to effective talent development, shining the spotlight very clearly on the scale and critical importance of the core objectives that we and our funding partners have focused on for the past 14 years. It is good to have more people agreeing with us about what is needed.
The last 12 months have been the most significant for the grassroots of our national game since the Football Foundation was formed in 2000. In October 2013, the Foundation’s Funding Partners – the Premier League, The FA and the Government – reaffirmed their unique collaboration by committing £102 million over three years through the Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund, which the Foundation is proud to deliver with their support. Around the same time The FA Chairman, Greg Dyke, announced a Commission to examine barriers to football development. Its well-received second report in October 2014
Indeed, the Commission’s report echoed many of the Foundation’s key messages and findings, such as the desperate need for more all-weather third generation (3G) artificial grass pitches (AGPs.) The Foundation has developed 500 of England’s 639 3G pitches over the past 14 years. By comparison, Germany boasts 3,735 3G pitches, which underlines how much further we have to go and why we are aiming to invest a significant proportion of our funding into developing more 3G pitches where they are most needed. The Foundation’s world-leading delivery capability is also the engine behind the Barclays Spaces for Sports programme, a partnership between Barclays and the Foundation that celebrated its tenth anniversary this year. More than 200 local multi-sport sites have been
developed across the UK, thanks to this partnership, which picked up a seventh industry award at the annual Football Business Awards in November. The Foundation has also delivered over 100 multi-sport facilities across London through the Mayor of London: Sports Facilities Fund. More than two thirds of the facilities that we fund also cater for other sports, such as cricket, rugby, netball and hockey. The huge increases in participation at our upgraded sites helps to improve public health, and our investment also helps to regenerate deprived communities and support the economy through creating local jobs and growth. I hope you enjoy reading the Foundation’s Annual Review. I would like to thank our funding partners, the Foundation’s highly committed and professional staff and all the volunteers across the country, without whom, the grassroots game just would not happen.
. Gary Hoffman Chairman
million, mainly because we have been able to reduce staff levels from over 80 to 50. We have been able to do this because we constantly review our processes to ensure that we do not waste effort and by developing systems that allow us to focus our resources accurately and effectively.
While the glamorous top end of the game quite rightly occupies pages of tabloid newspapers and TV and radio air time, the Foundation is unashamedly focused on supporting the grassroots level. In doing so, our strategy is constantly being refined to ensure that we continue to meet the needs of those who play football simply for the love of doing so, and specifically to ensure that quality facilities are provided where they are most needed. This past year has been our busiest since we were formed back in 2000. We have undergone yet another transition programme aimed at making the Foundation as lean and as efficient as possible. Over the past five years, the Foundation has reduced its overhead costs in real terms by nearly £1.5
We have introduced Grantshot, a revolutionary online banking-style grant management system that provides applicants with all the information they need on their application, from concept to formal application, whenever they need it. This has reduced telephone calls to the Foundation by around 80%. The Foundation Performance Management System provides accurate performance data on how we, as an organisation, manage applications through assessment, approval and facility build. While Upshot provides detailed information on how a facility is performing against expected outcomes throughout its useful life, so that we can evidence the impact of every single penny that we invest, as demonstrated through the impressive statistics you will see throughout this Review. We are proud to have supported 13,000 grassroots projects, since 2000, with direct funding of £510 million from our funding partners, the Premier
League, The FA and the Government. We have used this to attract a further £720m in partnership funding, which means that £1.2bn of investment has been channelled through the Foundation into grassroots projects on the eve of our 15th anniversary. We will continue to work hard and smart to ensure that the generous investment provided by our Funding Partners is maximised and nothing is wasted. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the outstanding and committed staff of the Foundation, our Board of Trustees and our panel members, our hard working Ambassadors and our generous funding partners and other key partners, all of whom care passionately about the grassroots of our national game. Finally, I would echo the Chairman in his introduction. Without the volunteers who get involved the length and breadth of the country, we would not have a grassroots game. Thank you for all that you do.
Paul Thorogood Chief Executive
The Football Foundation was founded by the Premier League, The FA and the Government in 2000 to improve grassroots facilities, and to get more people playing our national game. Since then we have awarded grants worth £510m and multiplied our Funding Partners’ investment by attracting an additional £720m in partnership funding, which means more than £1.2bn has been invested into the grassroots game. The systems we have developed for delivering facilities investment are so sophisticated that other organisations, including Barclays and the Mayor of London/Greater London Authority, have now also partnered with us.You can read about the massive impact they are having in more detail throughout this Review.
PREMIER LEAGUE & THE FA FACILITIES FUND A three-year £102m commitment, the Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund provides grants for building or refurbishing grassroots facilities, such as changing pavilions and playing surfaces for community benefit. The Foundation delivers this using funding it receives from the Premier League, The FA and the Government through Sport England.
MAYOR OF LONDON: SPORTS FACILITIES FUND Central to the Mayor’s commitment to deliver a sporting legacy from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Mayor of London: Sports Facilities Fund aims to raise participation levels in sport in London. Funding goes towards developing new affordable, high-quality facilities or refurbishing old ones.
BARCLAYS SPACES FOR SPORTS Barclays Spaces for Sports has developed over 200 of the country’s sports sites and continues to have a profound impact on community sports. The scheme is the biggest ever sports CSR programme in the UK and has won seven major industry awards.
Spaces for Sports
RESPECT The FA and Foundation’s Respect barriers and Respect packs (made up of captains’ armbands, marshals’ bibs and Respect Signage) are available to football leagues and clubs to encourage good behaviour by players and parents alike. Funding for this scheme is provided by The FA and vouchers supplied by the Foundation.
GROW THE GAME The highly popular Grow the Game scheme provides grants of up to £1,500 for the creation of new football teams and coaching qualifications, with money provided by the Premier League and The FA. Delivered by the Foundation, the scheme is targeted to improve access to football and coaching standards, with the Foundation receiving funding from The FA to provide vouchers to clubs.
The Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund is a new three-year £102m commitment to providing more high-quality facilities at grassroots level, The Football Foundation targets this investment into areas of most need and where it will have the most impact, in order to allow more children and adults to play the game. The Foundation receives money for the Fund from the Premier League, The FA and the Government through Sport England. It has so far invested £20m into grassroots projects across
the country, all of which can be seen graphically on the page opposite. These grants have attracted a further £55m of partnership funding, thus maximising the Fund’s investment into the grassroots game.
Many of the new facilities are also strengthening the connection between communities and their local professional club’s community trusts’ who are delivering outreach work in some of the most deprived areas of the country.
By refurbishing existing facilities and developing new ones, such as floodlit third generation (3G) artificial grass pitches (AGPs) and changing rooms, the Fund aims to increase participation and improve the experience of playing for regular players.
Over the next three spreads we feature examples of facilities that the have been developed with investment from the Fund, as well as the key statistics in terms of impact down the right hand-side.
£20M INVESTED
INTO GRASSROOTS PROJECTS ACROSS
THE COUNTRY
FOOTBALL FOUNDATION ATTRACTED ADDITIONAL
PARTNERSHIP FUNDING OF £55M
37 ARTIFICIAL
GRASS PITCHES
D E V E LO P E D 193 PROPERLY DRAINED
REAL GRASS
P I TC H E S Investment from the Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund across England last year.
48 CHANGING
FACILITIES
“Surfaces like this, funded by the Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund, are absolutely first class because they don’t get waterlogged, and when it gets dark the floodlights mean you can keep on playing!” – Joe Cole Opened by Aston Villa FC midfielder, Joe Cole, the new 3G pitch at Essexbased Robert Clack School was the first to be built in the Barking and Dagenham area. Made possible because of a £450,000 grant from the Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund, it has recorded a huge increase in participation since it opened its doors to the public, with 1,084 participants now used the new surface every week. This represents a huge increase at the site given that the pitch replaced part of a school playing field, which was previously only used intermittently and when it was not waterlogged.
The Football Foundation is able to achieve such impressive increases in participation because it not only invests in areas of most need, but works with the relevant County FA to create robust Football Development Plans (FDP), which map out over a five-year period how to ensure the facility is used to its maximum. This approach meant that last year, at facilities we enhanced with our Funding Partners’ investment, there was an 11% increase in football participation and a 25.8% increase in multi-sport participation. The new surface means that a number of local grassroots clubs
can now call the impressive facility home. Roneo Colts FC, Collier Row FC, Aztec FC, Aztec Youth FC, AFC Hornchurch, Upminster FC, Napier FC, Westhamians Senior, Bardag FC, Barkingside FC, Lonsdale FC and Coral FC are all now regular users of the pitch having previously been dispersed across the borough on sub-standard playing surfaces. An additional benefit is that the school has also formed a close relationship with the West Ham United Foundation, who will expand their community work by using the new pitch. Additionally, some of the club’s youth players will take GCSE qualifications at the school.
11% INCREASE IN FOOTBALL PARTICIPATION
NEW PLAYERS
24,942,136
HOURS OF SPORTING ACTIVITY AT PREMIER LEAGUE & THE FA FACILITIES FUND SITES
700,206 PEOPLE
PLAYED SPORT AT
PREMIER LEAGUE
& THE FA FACILITIES FUND SITES
25.8% INCREASE IN MULTI-SPORT PARTICIPATION
“The 3G pitches that the Football Foundation develops with money from the Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund are also major venues for grassroots coaches to get recruited and qualified. That is incredibly important for the health of our game at all levels” – Paul Scholes A new 3G pitch that was opened by former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes has already become a major hotbed of coaching from which the next generation of the area’s football coaches are being developed. The full-size, floodlit playing surface at Eccles College was developed with a £179,276 grant from the Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund. It has so far enabled more than 500 students to achieve coaching qualifications
from a FA Level 1 and upwards, in partnership with the Manchester FA and Bolton Wanderers FC. As well as hosting the Manchester United FA Girls’ Centre of Excellence, the College’s new pitch is also allowing the Manchester United Foundation to deliver BTEC Levels 2 and 3 in Sports Coaching, and more general educational programmes. This helped contribute towards the 23,558 coaching qualifications gained on facilities which
were made possible because of Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund grants. Initially only open to the college’s sports students, the opportunity to gain a coaching qualification was soon widened to other students following exceptional demand. The FA Level 1 course has boosted students’ future employment opportunities as well as enhancing their chances of gaining a place at university.
23,558 COACHING
QUALIFICATIONS
GAINED 75%OFTHOSE
COURSES WERE
FOOTBALL
SPECIFIC
4,078 COURSES
HELD AT PREMIER LEAGUE & THE FA FACILITIES FUND SITES
84% COACHES SAID PREMIER LEAGUE &
THE FA FACILITIES FUND
3G PITCHES I M P R OV E D
THE QUALITY OF THEIR COACHING
OF THE
PEOPLE WHO GAINED Q U A L I F I C AT I O N S
WERE FEMALE
“With the Foundation’s input, the committee grew in confidence as they were able to gain advice and support on a day-to-day basis” – Dean Davis, Youth-work Manager at Hull City Council Sites developed thanks to Premier League & The Facilities Fund investment also benefit from the Foundation’s ‘through-life’ approach. This means that even after a facility has been officially opened, the Foundation continues to support and challenge the site to deliver the outcomes set out as part of the Football Development Plan agreed in partnership with us and the local County FA, as part of their original application. The Foundation’s Grant Managers work to ensure sites that are not hitting
their targets or struggling in other ways get back on track. They are aided by rigorous monitoring and evaluation, including dedicated Support Days, which detects ways that better participation rates than originally forecasted could be achieved.
Dean Davis,Youth-work Manager at Hull City Council, said: “With the Foundation’s input, the committee grew in confidence as they were able to gain advice and support on a day-to-day basis.
For example, with the help of our intervention the disused school site in Hull that Longhill Ward Community Association transformed into a major sports complex with a £443,774 grant in 2004 avoided permanent closure after extensive flooding in 2010.
“I think that the work in and around Eastmount Recreation Centre is a great example of how investment, belief, clarity and support can go a long way!”
383 SUPPORT
DAY MEETINGS
HELD IN 2014 155 FACE-TO-FACE
MEETINGS AND 228 TELEPHONE
MEETINGS NINE OUT OF TEN PROJECTS WELCOMED
THE FOUNDATION’S
TAILORED ADVICE
AT SUPPORT DAYS
84% OF PROJECTS ARE MEETING OR
EXCEEDING TARGETS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
88% OF PROJECTS
SUSTAINABLE
“We had a really committed group of young girls who wanted to put together a team, and thanks to Grow the Game funding we have been able to do exactly that” – Snowdon & Aylesham FC Club Secretary, Caroline Bryan The Grow the Game scheme, which the Football Foundation delivers with funding from the Premier League and The FA, increases participation by providing financial support towards the cost of creating new grassroots football teams. Last year saw a particular emphasis placed on increasing participation amongst under-represented groups – namely: women and girls; disabled players; and the Under-15 age bracketand-above (to address the ‘post-school’ drop-off.) As a result, 1,753 new teams were created which paved the way for 6,071 new female footballers to take up the game. £1,500 of funding is available for each new team that a club creates, and grants
can go towards helping to cover the costs incurred for league entry, referees’ fees, first aid kits, FA coaching courses and football strips. For example, Snowdon and Aylesham FC were formed back in 2003 as a youth section and has fielded their first ever girls’ team this season thanks to Grow the Game funding. “We had a really committed group of young girls who wanted to put together a team, and thanks to Grow the Game funding we have been able to do exactly that,” said Club Secretary Caroline Bryan. “The £1,500 has gone towards pitch hire for training and matches, new kit, a minibus
to get to away games and promotional posters to attract even more players to the team. Even more importantly it is paying for four of our female coaches to do their FA Level 1 coaching qualifications.” With plans to offer more girls’ teams in the near future, this grant will be a springboard for Snowdon & Aylesham FC. “We really want to retain players after they are 16,” says Caroline, “It’s important for the younger kids coming through that they look up to the older players and see a route to progress.”
492 GRANTS
AWARDED 20,500 PLAYERS
CREATED PER
£1.5M INVESTED
5,747COACHING
QUALIFICATIONS
GAINED NEW
TEAMS CREATED
6,071 NEW
FEMALE FOOTBALLERS
492 grants from the £1.5m Grow the Game scheme were made across England last year.
2,209 DISABLED
FOOTBALLERS
SINCE 2010
“From our longstanding investment in sport – both at the elite and grassroots level – we know it is an enormously effective way to engage young people and communities. Barclays Spaces for Sports is part of our broader goal to build 5 Million Young Futures and give the next generation the skills they need to achieve their ambitions and become financially independent. We know we can’t do this alone and we’re proud to work with our expert partner, the Football Foundation, to help marginalised young people improve their chances in life.”– David Wheldon, Managing Director, Brand, Reputation, Citizenship and Marketing at Barclays In 2014, Barclays Spaces for Sports celebrated its tenth anniversary. Delivered by the Football Foundation with funding from Barclays, Spaces for Sports has seen over 200 multi-sport sites developed with £70m invested into the grassroots. The programme uses the positive values of sport to help young people from disadvantaged communities develop the skills they need to reach their potential. To celebrate this, four events were held across the country to mark the huge impact that the programme has had. Former Portsmouth FC striker Steve Claridge visited Bransbury Park, Darius Vassell – who played for Aston
Villa FC and England – visited The Aston Sports Pitches, while Faye White – once England and Arsenal Ladies Captain – surprised participants at Rosemary Gardens. The fourth event saw Peter Schmiechel spend an afternoon back in Manchester at the Old Trafford Sports Barn, where he spoke to some of the 700 regular users of the site. The flagship facility, which received £665,000 from Barclays and the Foundation, has two third generation artificial grass pitches, two outdoor hard courts and a sports hall, all of which have allowed it to establish partnerships with Manchester United and Manchester City.
The Foundation continues to work closely with all the sites to maximise their potential and ensure that they can benefit local people for many years to come. Support like this means that more than 53,000 people use Barclays Spaces for Sports sites every single week. The icing on the cake was the programme being awarded a prestigious Football Business Award in 2014 – the seventh major award it has picked up, underlining how it has set the benchmark for all sport CSR programmes.
Spaces for Sports
33,812 PARTICIPANTS
PLAYED SPORT AT
THE 26 FLAGSHIP
SITES EACH WEEK
18,883 ADDITIONAL
PLAYERS TOOK PART
IN ONE-OFF EVENTS
AT FLAGSHIP SITES
6,082 PEOPLE TOOK
PART IN A NON-FOOTBALL
ACTIVITY 57% OF WORKFORCE AT BARCLAYS SITES
ARE VOLUNTEERS
The Football Foundation has delivered over 200 sustainable, multi-sport sites across the UK on behalf of Barclays since 2004.
COURSES WERE
HELD AT BARCLAYS
SPACES FOR SPORTS SITES,
WHICH RESULTED IN 745 PEOPLE GAINING
A QUALIFICATION
“The Football Foundation has done an excellent job of delivering my Sports Facilities Fund. Their hard work has helped to increase access to affordable sporting opportunities for thousands of Londoners across every single borough. These improvements are a tangible legacy of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics and help to keep our capital fit and healthy as well as raising participation levels in sport.” – The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson The Football Foundation delivers the Mayor of London: Sports Facilities Fund with funding from the Greater London Authority. This is part of the Mayor’s commitment to deliver a tangible sporting legacy from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Foundation is using the Mayor of London: Sports Facilities Fund to develop more than 100 multi-sport facilities across the capital. This is regenerating communities, increasing participation, keeping the population healthy and creating a stunning Olympic legacy in every single London borough that will last for decades.
In the last year alone the Foundation has directed £1.5m from the Fund into 32 local sports sites. Each week 51,609 participants use the facilities that have been developed so far. The Foundation’s monitoring and evaluation has identified that 13.2% of users of these facilities were previously inactive (i.e. not playing any sport.) Streatham-Croydon Rugby Football Club’s changing rooms once welcomed the likes of Saracens and Wasps but their ground had fallen into severe disrepair with players actively avoiding using them. Similarly, the grandstand had become an uncomfortable place from which to watch matches.
A £70,000 grant from the Fund helped provide them with new changing rooms that have enabled more sport to be played by the club, as well as local schools and community groups. The changing rooms have been modernised and now include additional showers, dedicated referee changing rooms, a gym, physiotherapy rooms and storage areas. The spectator stand has been transformed to provide a welcoming environment, complete with smart club-coloured seats, for 140 people.
13.2% OF PARTICIPANTS
AT FUNDED SITES WERE
PREVIOUSLY
‘INACTIVE’ 51,609 PARTICIPANTS
TAKING PART IN
SPORTING ACTIVITY
EACH WEEK AT
FUNDED SITES 42.8% PARTICIPANTS
ARE FROM BLACK,
ASIAN AND MINORITY ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS
AN ADDITIONAL 11,955
WILL TAKE PART IN SPORTING ACTIVITY
THANKS TO MOL FUNDING The Football Foundation has delivered over 105 multi-sport sites across London on behalf of the Mayor of London: Sports Facilities Fund.
PEOPLE
VOLUNTEERED AT
MAYOR OF LONDON SITES ON A WEEKLY BASIS
EXPERIENCED STAFF The Football Foundation is an extremely lean and efficient team of 50 highly motivated individuals. They employ a wealth of grant-giving experience and a shared commitment to develop and exploit new technology and continuously improve processes to increase capacity and capability while reducing overhead costs. We encourage independent scrutiny and audit to ensure that the Foundation remains at the cutting edge of grant giving and provide the best possible value for money outcomes for the investment made. Every single investment is ‘squeezed’ to ensure that projects deliver at least agreed outcomes and ideally more. This approach has enabled the Foundation to reduce its operating costs by 20% over the last five years, while continuing to multiply Funding Partners’ investment.
ROBUST MONITORING AND EVALUATION The Foundation is dedicated to a through-life approach; unlike most grant-giving bodies, our interest does not finish once a grant has been awarded. In fact the opening of a new facility marks only the beginning of the next, crucial stage in a project’s relationship with the Foundation, specifically with the Foundation’s Knowledge & Insight team. Upshot has been developed by the Foundation to enable it to monitor and evidence the delivery of agreed outcomes from funded projects throughout their useful life. It is not the building itself that matters most to the Foundation, it is how effective it is in delivering expected outcomes throughout its useful life that matters most. By monitoring ongoing performance, and providing support when required, we can make sure that every project we invest in delivers what is expected - and in most cases exceed this. Upshot, like all Foundation systems and process, is being developed constantly. Initially designed to automate the Foundation’s annual survey of funded-facility performance, it will very soon provide a ‘real-time’, day-to-day view of what is going on at every funded facility. It will provide immediate, real-time reporting on how football and sports development plans are being delivered. Specifically, Upshot will identify problems at funded-facilities as soon as they become apparent, enabling the Foundation to intervene and provide timely support as required; focussing Foundation staff at all times on what actually matters, thus optimising efficiency.
THE SOCIAL AUDIT NETWORK (SAN) part of the Foundation’s commitment to transparency, its Monitoring As & Evaluation systems are independently scrutinised and verified annually. The Social Audit Network (SAN) has again audited the robustness and accuracy of the Foundation’s funded facilities participation data. SAN has certified that it is satisfied that the data is free from mis-statement and presents a fair and balanced view of the performance of the Football Foundation in delivering the outcomes it has invested in.
EFFECTIVE PROCESSES The Foundation’s grant-giving processes have been honed over fifteen years and its delivery capability is now one of the most robust and transparent of any grant-giving organisation. Systems and processes continuously evolve. The Foundation’s latest technological advancement – Grantshot – provides internet banking-style features, guiding applicants through every stage of the funding process, providing application information 24 hours a day, whenever it is needed, and a continuous, up-to-date view of all applications at the touch of a button. Previously, it was not always immediately obvious to applicants where they were in the application process, or how long they would need to wait for a decision. This resulted in a high level of telephone and email traffic to Foundation project managers. Not any more. The 24-hour a day transparency provided by Grantshot has resulted in an 80% reduction of calls and e-mails, enabling us to focus on what really matters and making us even more efficient.
TARGETED INVESTMENT The Foundation’s independently verified monitoring and evaluation system shows that, last year alone, there was an average increase in football participation of 11% at facilities funded by the Foundation, with an increase of 25.8% across all other sports. Results like this reaffirm that investment in quality facilities encourages more people to play sport. However, investment needs to be properly targeted and effectively managed through the full life of the facility to achieve maximum impact. This is why the Foundation’s Pitchfinder system – the most complete database of football pitches across the country – is so integral to our targeting. Built and managed by the Foundation, Pitchfinder is a database of over 22,000 football sites. It provides details of what is available at each, for example, types of pitches and whether or not they are supported by floodlights and/or changing rooms. Pitchfinder not only provides the general public with an easily accessible, web-based resource to identify football facilities near them, but the quality of its data is such that it also provides a strategic assessment tool for the Foundation’s grant managers to direct funding to where it is most needed and have the greatest impact.
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND JOBS With the construction sector identified as a key driver of the UK’s economic recovery, the Football Foundation’s directing of investment from its Funding Partners into the country’s local sports infrastructure is a significant contribution to that economic growth. As well as creating stunning sports sites for communities, these projects also create jobs and contribute to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) recently reported on the Football Foundation’s financial support of 80 construction projects, finding that £53m was contributed to the UK’s GDP, with £7.73 generated for every pound invested by the Foundation. The report also noted that £15m of funding towards these projects had a combined total project cost of £46m. This total investment in construction was expected to generate £22m in GDP through direct impacts, and an additional £31m through indirect and induced impacts.
REGENERATING COMMUNITIES When a dilapidated, run down sports site is redeveloped into a modern sports complex, it has a significant regenerating effect on its local community. The Foundation and its Trustees deliberately choose to invest a significant amount of the Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund money into the top 20 most deprived wards, which further targets and delivers this effect. As well as improving the aesthetics of an area, having state-of-the-art sports provision is a major asset that can benefit local citizens in a number of different ways. By turning unused or outdated sports facilities into modern, sports centres, areas become more attractive to residents and other organisations, such as businesses, outside of that area, which can in turn leverage partnership investment.Young people also benefit massively from having spaces to play sports in, reducing the likelihood of antisocial behaviour and allowing them to engage in activities that facilitate personal development.
PUBLIC HEALTH Worryingly, the UK has amongst the worst levels of obesity in Western Europe and the worst public sports facilities. Comparable countries like Germany, France and Holland provide excellent local sports facilities, yet here in Britain we lack these crucial venues that enable people to stay fit and healthy through playing regular sport, so we are effectively trying to combat obesity without a major tool. Through providing more of these facilities the Foundation and its Funding Partners are ensuring that at least some of our population are able to avoid becoming obese in the first place, thus avoiding far more costly subsequent problems to their quality of life and to the National Health Service (NHS.)
Since our inception in 2000, the Foundation’s objective has been to use money from the Premier League, The FA and the Government, through Sport England, to rebuild local sports facilities across the country. In doing this we continue to not only increase participation through improving our nation’s inventory of grassroots but create positive outcomes for the country’s economy, public health and wider society in the process.
Equally the benefits of sport to addressing and preventing mental health problems, such as depression and anxiety, are now well established. Providing self-esteem, social networks and a sense of purpose, the sports sites that we develop are ensuring more people do not fall prey to the increasing incidences of mental health in the UK.
SPORT One prime barrier to participation is access to facilities, and a proven driver of getting more people to play sport is by increasing the capacity and improving the quality of the country’s stock of public sports services. The FA’s largest ever investigation into access to amenities – The FA National Facilities Survey (2013) – found 84% of grassroots footballers cited lack of, or poor facilities as their number one concern. The Football Foundation’s work addresses both these problems directly. By building new facilities all over the country, the capacity of publicly accessible sports services is slowly increasing, meaning that more people have more opportunities to play. As for quality, facilities that were upgraded thanks to Football Foundation Funding Partners’ investment in the last season recorded an 11% increase in football participation and an increase of 25.8% in multi-sport participation.
671 GRANTS AWARDED LAST YEAR WORTH £25.2M OR
= 10 PEOPLE
11% INCREASE IN FOOTBALL PARTICIPATION AT PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE FOUNDATION STILL WITHIN THEIR FIVEYEAR FDP
THE FOUNDATION HAS REDUCED ITS OPERATING BUDGET BY 20% OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS
700,206 PEOPLE PLAYED SPORT AT PREMIER LEAGUE & THE FA FACILITIES FUND SITES LAST SEASON 25,221 COACHING QUALIFICATIONS GAINED
EVERY £1 INVESTED THROUGH THE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION MODEL GENERATES ANOTHER £7.73 FOR THE ECONOMY
24,942,136 HOURS OF SPORTING ACTIVITY AT PREMIER LEAGUE & THE FA FACILITIES FUND SITES
COMPARED TO LAST YEAR, PROJECTS ARE NOW UP AND RUNNING
WEEKS SOONER
2,480 PIECES OF MEDIA COVERAGE VALUED AT £4,870,134 WHICH REACHED AN AUDIENCE OF 232,490,926 IN THE LAST FINANCIAL YEAR
Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP presented a cheque for £5,000 to Castleford White Rose Ladies FC to help them form five new teams.
Former Chelsea FC defender and Football Foundation Ambassador, Graeme Le Saux presented a £99,999 cheque to Surreybased Hambledon FC for their new changing pavilion.
Former Bolton Wanderers FC manager, Dougie Freedman opened a new 3G pitch at Bolton Wanderers’ Academy, which will be used extensively by the club’s Community Trust.
Lord Pendry, Football Foundation President, opened a new 3G pitch and changing rooms at Southam College, Warwickshire.
Prime Minister David Cameron and Wigan Athletic Chairman Dave Whelan basked in the sunshine at the opening of the new Wigan Youth Zone.
Former Coventry City striker and Football Foundation Ambassador, Dion Dublin opened a refurbished pavilion at Rectory Park, Birmingham.
BBC presenter and Football Foundation Ambassador Dan Walker visited a new 3G pitch at Wisewood Sports Centre, Sheffield.
West Ham United FC legend and Football Foundation Ambassador, Sir Trevor Brooking opened a new 3G pitch, changing rooms and MUGA in Thamesmead, London.
Rt Hon Vince Cable MP and Football Foundation CEO Paul Thorogood visited NPL Sports Club, Twickenham, to open their new changing room pavilion.
Former Leicester City FC star Steve Walsh opened a new 3G pitch at Newbridge High School, Leicestershire.
Former England manager and Football Foundation Ambassador, Graham Taylor opened the Winterton Community Pavilion, Lincolnshire.
The Premier League & The FA Facilities Fund was launched by Richard Scudamore, Alex Horne, Helen Grant MP and Charles Johnston in Southwark, London.
Rt Hon Hugh Robertson MP, former Minister for Sport and Olympics, opened a new changing pavilion at Wyberton Playing Fields, Lincolnshire.
Liverpool FC Manager, Brendan Rodgers, stopped by Rainhill High School, Liverpool to open their new 3G pitch.
Ben Shephard, TV presenter and Football Foundation Ambassador, announced that £1.5m of funding would be made available through the Football Foundation’s Grow the Game scheme.
Plymouth Argyle FC Chairman James Brent opened a new sports pavilion in Modbury, Devon.
FA Chairman Greg Dyke opened a new 3G pitch and changing pavilion in Bristol.
Derby County FC manager Steve McClaren opened a new changing pavilion in Ripley, Derbyshire.
Spurs winger Andros Townsend surprised pupils when he opened a new 3G pitch at Capital City Academy, North London.
MPs took on Talksport in a five-a-side match on a new 3G pitch in Lambeth.
Sky Sports presenter Jeff Stelling opened a new 3G pitch at Matthew Arnold School, Staines.
Newcastle United FC defender Steven Taylor opened a refurbished 3G pitch at John Spence High School, North Shields.
BBC presenter Jake Humphrey and Norwich City FC midfielder Jonny Howson teamed up to open a refurbished sports hub at Carrow Park, Norwich.
Former England and Leeds United FC goalkeeper Nigel Martyn opened a new changing pavilion at Rawdon Meadows, Bradford.
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2014
TRUSTEES’ STATEMENT The Summarised Financial Statements are not the full Annual Report and Financial Statements but a summary of information derived from group’s Statement of Financial Activities and the charity’s and group’s Balance Sheet. The Summarised Financial Statements do not contain additional information derived from the Directors’ Report. The full Annual Report and Financial Statements, from which the Summarised Financial Statements are derived, were approved by the trustees on 15 October 2014 and copies have been filed with the Charity Commission and with the Registrar of Companies. The independent Auditors have issued an unqualified report on the full Financial Statements and on the consistency of the Trustees’ Report with those Financial Statements. The Statement in the independent Auditors’ Report, under section 496 of the Companies Act 2006, was unqualified. The full independent Auditors’ Report contained no statement under sections 498(2)(a) and (b) or 498(3) of the Companies Act 2006. On behalf of the Board of Trustees
Gary Hoffman Chairman 23 December 2014
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ STATEMENT TO THE MEMBERS OF THE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION We have examined the supplementary financial information included within the Football Foundation Annual Review 2014 for the year ended 31 May 2014, which comprises the Summary Balance Sheet as at 31 May 2014 and the Summary Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities for the year then ended.
RESPECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE TRUSTEES AND THE AUDITORS The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Football Foundation Annual Review 2014, in accordance with applicable United Kingdom law and the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting for Charities (revised 2005), which includes information extracted from the full annual financial statements of The Football Foundation for the year ended 31 May 2014. Our responsibility is to report to you our opinion on the consistency of the summary financial information, included within the Football Foundation Annual Review 2014, with those full annual financial statements.
This statement, including the opinion, has been prepared for and only for the charitable company’s members as a body and for no other purpose. We do not, in giving this opinion, accept or assume responsibility for any other purpose or to any other person to whom this statement is shown or into whose hands it may come save where expressly agreed by our prior consent in writing.
BASIS OF OPINION Our examination involved agreeing the balances disclosed in the summary financial information to full annual financial statements. Our audit report on the charitable company’s full annual financial statements describes the basis of our opinion on those financial statements.
OPINION In our opinion the supplementary financial information is consistent with the full annual financial statements of The Football Foundation for the year ended 31 May 2014. We have not considered the effects of any events between the date on which we signed our report on the full annual financial statements (15 October 2014) and the date of this statement. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Chartered Accountants and Statutory Auditors London 23 December 2014
SUMMARY BALANCE SHEET FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2014 Group 2014 £’000 55,682 (41,436) 14,246 14,246
Total Assets Total Liabilities Net Assets Total Capital and Reserves
2013 £’000 52,911 (40,200) 12,711 12,711
Charity 2014 2013 £’000 £’000 56,283 53,513 (41,310) (40,138) 14,973 13,375 14,973 13,375
SUMMARY CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2014
Total Incoming Resources Total Resources Expended Realised and Unrealised Losses Net Movement in Funds Fund Balances Brought Forward Fund Balances Carried Forward
Restricted funds 2014 £’000 (427) 427 -
Unrestricted funds 2014 £’000 31,825 (30,358) 68 1,535 12,711 14,246
Total funds 2014 £’000 31,398 (29,931) 68 1,535 12,711 14,246
Total funds 2013 £’000 33,877 (39,581) (10) (5,714) 18,425 12,711
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