Finance Score: -7
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 2
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +2
    Overall GiG Score: -5 ?

    LURGAN TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB 

    Our governing document has the following purposes: 1. To promote the participation of healthy recreation, particularly local inhabitants of Craigavon and its surrounding areas, without reference to sex, race or social background, by providing facilities for the playing of football and other sports capable of improving health. 2. To advance the physical education of community members by coaching in and providing facilities for the game of football and other sports and recreational activities so as to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capabilities to enable them to grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society. 3. To provide and assist in providing facilities for sport, recreation or other leisure time occupation of inhabitants who have need for such facilities by reason of their youth, poverty or social or economic circumstances or other disadvantage or in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving their quality of life. 4. To promote equality and diversity and religious and racial harmony; to promote such other charitable purposes as may from time to time be determined.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from a grant maker
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
    • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
    • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
    Established: 9 years

    www.lurgantownfc.com

    info@lurgantownfc.com

    Charity Commission for Northern Ireland
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Year end 30/04/18 30/04/19 30/04/20 30/04/21 30/04/23
    Income £164,798 £362,009 £152,567 £94,865 £267,888
    Spending £159,210 £363,795 £153,479 £89,425 £301,275
    Surplus/deficit £5,588 -£1,786 -£912 £5,440 -£33,387
    What it does
    • The advancement of health or the saving of lives, The advancement of amateur sport, The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation or the promotion of religious or racial harmony or equality and diversity, The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
    Who works here?
    • 2 employees
    • 80 volunteers
    Who it helps
    • Adult training, Children (5-13 year olds), Community safety/crime prevention, Interface communities, Older people, Volunteers, Youth (14-25 year olds)
    How it operates
    • Community development, Cross-border/cross-community, Sport/recreation, Volunteer development, Youth development
    Where it operates
    • Northern Ireland

    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.

    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Halifax Foundation for Northern Ireland - Community Sports Development Worker
    £4,356 11/06/2019
    Community Sports Development Worker
    Garfield Weston Foundation - WAF award
    £148,000 05/10/2018
    3G Pitch Resurfacing

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Further information may be available on the charity's page on the Commission website here
    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Northern Ireland on 24/07/2015, number: NIC102289
    Main office

    Lurgan Town Arena, 83 Glenavon Lane, Lurgan, Craigavon, County Armagh, BT66 8TN

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for Northern Ireland
    360 Giving
    Authorised officials of this charity can add information to this page (including a Donate Now button) for no cost

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