Charity Details

Ayr United Football Academy Ltd

SC037325Registered charity from 02 December 2005

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Charity Information:

Address Somerset Park
Tryfield Place
Ayr
South Ayrshire

Postcode KA89NB

Website www.aufa.org.uk

Regulatory Type Standard

Link to Companies House https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/

Object:

(1) To provide, in the interests of social welfare, facilities for recreation and other leisure time activities available to the public at large with a view to improving their conditions of life. (2) To promote community participation in healthy recreation, in particular by the provision of facilities for the playing of football and other sports. (3) To promote and protect the wellbeing and physical health of people living in the vicinity of the facilities operated by the company, and to assist in the relief of ill health and the provision of health education for such people. (4) To promote public safety in the interests of the general public, and in particular by promoting initiatives and programmes which are directed towards reducing the incidence of vandalism and other anti-social behaviour by encouraging participation in sports. (5) To help young people to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities, such that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and as members of society. (6) To promote training, particularly in such skills as will assist the participants in obtaining paid employment. (7) To promote, establish, operate and/or support other projects and initiatives of a charitable nature.

Operations:

What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:

The fundamental purpose of our charity is to promote lifelong learning, health and wellbeing, primarily in South Ayrshire, through football. This aim is summarised in the essential strapline ‘Building a Better Community Through Football’. To achieve this:- We encourage participation in sport for people of all ages, regardless of background or ability; and We pursue a model of sporting excellence to allow talented boys and girls a platform from which to reach their individual goals and play the sport at the highest level.

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Constitutional Form Date: 02 Dec 2005

Main Operating Location: South Ayrshire

Number of Staff: 38

Number of Volunteers: 51-100

Purposes: "the advancement of public participation in sport"

Beneficiaries: "Children or young people"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It carries out activities or services itself"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 May 2021	£426,024	£371,578	24 Feb 2022	Yes
31 May 2022	£480,405	£473,032	23 Feb 2023	Yes
31 May 2023	£491,059	£503,233	26 Feb 2024	Yes
31 May 2024	£700,301	£684,897	12 Dec 2024	Yes
31 May 2025	£731,110	£678,370	26 Feb 2026	Yes	Published accounts can be found on the Companies House website
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green . If an annual return is late, the box is red .

Income and Expenditure:

Charity Trustees:

First Name	Last Name
Allan	Gunning
Graham	Peterkin
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