Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 3
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 5 ?

BARDWELL PLAYING FIELDS ASSOCIATION 

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Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending is declining
  • Income has been volatile recently

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23*£25£19£6n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/22£41£40£1n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/21£112£111£2n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£246£436£-190n/an/an/an/an/a3
31/03/19£242£71£171n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/03/18£12£10£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£7£8£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£3£4£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£46£47£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£2£1£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£3£3£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£2£2£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£3£3£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£4£3£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£2£2£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£4£2£2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£3£2£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£3£3£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£7£4£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£3£3£0£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 56 years

www.bpfa.onesuffolk.net/

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Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Sports & recreational facilities
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Suffolk,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports 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
Suffolk Community Foundation - Maintenance of Sporting Activity
£5,000 21/08/2020
6
Maintenance of Sporting Activity during Covid 19 at Bardwell Playing Fields.
Suffolk Community Foundation - Replacement of the Pavilion.t the Queen Elizabeth II Playing Fields Bardwell.
£4,000 19/10/2018
12
Towards a new pavilion.
National Lottery Community Fund - Replacement of Playing Field Pavilion
£10,000 11/10/2017
12
This group will use the funding to contribute towards a larger building project to establish a new pavilion for the area of Bardwell.
Sport England - New Build Clubhouse
£50,000 03/10/2017
13
Funding under Sport England's Community Asset Fund funding programme for a Capital project titled 'New Build Clubhouse'. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports. This funding has ....more
DCMS - ALB-New Build Clubhouse
£50,000 03/10/2017
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 12/06/1968, number: 304854
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR23: 26 days late, AR08: 77 days late,
Main office

The Guildhall
Quaker Lane
Bardwell
BURY ST. EDMUNDS
Suffolk
IP31 1AL

Objectives

TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, PLAYING FIELDS, PLAYGROUNDS AND COMMUNITY CENTRES WITHIN BARDWELL AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BARDWELL AND NEIGHBOURHOOD

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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