AnnualReview - The Football Stadia Improvement Fund

AnnualReview
The Football Stadia Improvement Fund 2005-2006
The Football Stadia Improvement
Fund (FSIF) is the partner
organisation of the Football
Foundation, the UK's largest
sports charity.
It funds lower league ground
improvements throughout the
professional and amateur game,
creating a safe and modern
environment for fans and players
to enjoy football.
Over £88m has already been
invested by the FSIF since its
launch in July 2000.
The Football Stadia Improvement Fund
Annual Review 2005-2006
Contents
Chairman's Report
Chief Executive’s Foreword
New Stadia
Floodlights
Turnstiles
Disabled Access
New Stands
Perimeter Fencing
Financial Summary
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The Football Stadia Improvement Fund
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Chairman’s Report
The Football Stadia Improvement Fund (FSIF) is ensuring
fans, volunteers and club staff across the country can
watch our national game in safe, secure environments.
With the help of the FSIF’s investment into 917 projects
worth over £265m, the landscape of football grounds in
this country is being completely transformed.
Whilst 90% of clubs funded by the FSIF and the Football
Foundation are at non-league level, clubs have also
benefited from the Premier League right through the
pyramid and down to local junior clubs.
It is just incredible to see first hand the changes in the
quality of stadia that have taken place at every level of
the game.
The dedication of individuals at the County Football
Associations, the football clubs and the FSIF itself should
be recognised and applauded.
The unprecedented investment from the Premier League
and The Football Association, combined with previous
funding from the Lottery and the Pools companies,
enables us to boast the best footballing infrastructure
anywhere in the world.
Sir David Richards
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Chief Executive's Foreword
Football is the national game, bringing joy and excitement
to millions of people each week.
It is essential that fans, football club staff, stewards and
police can attend football matches safe in the knowledge
that the ground is secure and can accommodate
thousands of people.
Local football clubs are also a source of local pride and a
binding factor for towns and cities right across the
country.The Football Foundation taps into this power,
using football to address many of society’s key challenges,
such as obesity or crime.
However, it is the FSIF that supports football clubs,
helping them enjoy a strong base so they can continue to
be an important hub for their local communities.
In this country we have the richest breadth of football
clubs in the world.The English football pyramid
encompasses thousands of football clubs, who, in turn,
have millions of passionate supporters.
The expertise of FA County Development personnel on
the ground has been essential to making the vast
improvements happen.
Our FSIF project managers and technical experts are also
key in delivering the investment into the grass roots of
the game over the coming years.
Paul Thorogood
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FSIF investment
has helped fund the
new stadia football
fans now enjoy.
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Doncaster Rovers
Football Club, North
£2m from the FSIF has helped build a new all-seater
stadium for Doncaster Rovers Football Club, also
used by the Doncaster Dragons Rugby League Club
and the Doncaster Belles Football Club.
The club’s previous dilapidated stadium lacked
investment over the years. It offered only the most
basic amenities and had little scope for expansion or
generating income to sustain and develop the club.
Now FSIF investment has meant the club has been
able to relocate to a new stadium, which is the
centrepiece of the new multi-sport Lakeside Sports
Complex.
It provides 150 covered spaces for wheelchair users,
new changing rooms, catering kiosks, function rooms,
bars and boardrooms.There are also new executive
boxes, restaurants and kitchens on the East side.
"The Community Sports Complex has been an
enormous boost for the people of Doncaster. It
includes a range of amenities that will benefit local
communities as well as providing top class facilities for
our main sports clubs.
"The FSIF grant was a key part of ensuring that
Doncaster Rovers came on board and helped this
fantastic new sports complex happen."
Martin Winter,
Doncaster’s Elected Mayor
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We are investing
in floodlights to
illuminate grounds
across the country.
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Stafford Rangers
Football Club,
West Midlands
The floodlight masts at Stafford Rangers’ Marston
Road ground were over 30 years old, corroded and
in need of replacement.
They were also located in front of the stands at the
boundary of the pitch which restricted fans’ views.
A FSIF grant of £50,625 enabled the club to update
the system and eliminate restricted views by
installing a modern, 20 metre high, four-mast system,
each supporting six bright lamps.
“We had real difficulty getting replacement parts for
the old floodlights, as they had stopped making them.
“Our main problem was that rain kept getting into the
fittings and blowing the lamps.This was costing us a lot.
“In addition, the lux reading satisfied the Southern
League but was not enough when we got into the
Conference. Now it is bright enough for the Football
League as well, which is our next aim.
“The grant from the FSIF went a long way to making
that happen.
“The old lights were very patchy, with a lot of spillage
into the neighbouring houses which drew complaints.
The fans and certainly the players have noticed the
difference, especially as the uniformity and spread of
lighting on the pitch is fantastic.”
Mike Hughes,
Secretary
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FSIF funding
is supporting the
installation of modern
turnstiles at football
grounds across
the country.
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Southend United
Football Club, East
Southend United’s Roots Hall Stadium in Essex had
antiquated pedal-operated turnstiles.These were
slow at letting spectators in and safety experts
warned about over-crowding particularly in the ten
minutes before kick-off. It also left them vulnerable
to ticket fraud.
Now with the help of a £80,622 grant they have a
modern efficient entry system at their turnstiles.The
system can also be moved should Southend ever
wish to relocate to a new stadium.
“There is a big increase in flow rates through the new
system, so we can get people into the ground quicker.
There’s a better check on who’s entering the ground
because each ticket is bar-coded.When the ticket is
scanned, the system records that person’s entry, so we
can see from our management who has entered the
ground, at what time and how old they are. It ensures
people have the right ticket for their age and that they
are in the right part of the ground.
“Also if someone arrives just before kick-off every
week, we can send them an email suggesting they come
earlier and get a free pint.”
Geoffrey King,
Deputy Chairman
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Opening our national
game to everyone is
a passion of the FSIF
so ensuring stadia have
disabled access is one
of its prime objectives.
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Lewes Football Club,
South East
The FSIF provided £150,000 towards a new 500
seater stand and general upgrade of Lewes Football
Club’s Dripping Pan ground.This ensured that the
site conformed to Nationwide Conference standards.
The scheme is a key part of the ‘Active Lewes’
project which aims to deliver a state-of-the-art
sporting hub to the town, with the football club at
its centre.
Like all FSIF and Football Foundation projects,
opening up access to the game for every section of
society was one of this project’s primary aims and
disabled access to the new stand and spaces for
wheelchairs were especially designed in the plans.
“The Dripping Pan is a unique football ground built in
a grass bowl and going back 125 years at least.The FSIF
has been extremely helpful in providing grants to
improve it.
“We didn’t want to separate our fans in wheelchairs
from the rest of the fans. So they have the choice of the
seated environment, or new bays at the back of the
standing area.
“In the standing area they’re situated right behind the
goal where the real noise is and you feel right at the
heart of the crowd.
“When you see how our disabled fans are able to enjoy
the game it really brings home the benefit of the
improvements the FSIF has helped fund.”
Martin Elliot,
Managing Director
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The FSIF helps clubs
to construct new
stands for football
fans to enjoy the game.
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Holbeach United
Football Club,
East Midlands
A helping hand of £90,160 from the FSIF enabled
Holbeach United to replace their existing 70 year
old stand with a 140 seater one.
The new stand ensures easy access and facilities for
the clubs’ disabled supporters.The grant has also
funded a new public toilet block, team dugouts and
a new players’ tunnel.
The whole pitch is now completely fenced ensuring
proper security and control of access.
“The fans are very impressed with the new stand.
Some older fans thought it would never happen in their
lifetime but there is no way we could have ever done it
without support from the FSIF.
“It also helped attract other funding.When people think
you have got some money to do it, then they come
forward with the remaining amount.
“The work has certainly made the ground more secure
as we suffered from a great deal of vandalism before.
“We are also one of the first clubs in the area to achieve
Charter Status – we run teams down to Under 8s.We
couldn’t have done that without these improvements.”
Dave Dougill,
Project Manager and Vice Chairman
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The perimeter
fencing that the
FSIF funds secures
clubs’ playing and
supporting areas.
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Wotton Rovers
Football Club,
South West
Wotton Rovers in Gloucestershire were awarded
funding totalling £1,587 to install perimeter fencing.
This has made their ground far more secure,
protecting the pitch and changing areas and reducing
the likelihood of vandalism.
It is also allowing the club to properly manage who
can enter on match days, increasing their ability to
generate revenue.
“We were very pleased to receive the grant from the
FSIF. Our ground looks much more professional now.
“The new fencing also means we have achieved County
League status for the senior team this year.
“Next season our Under 18s will also be entered into
the County League, meaning they will be playing a
higher standard of team right across Gloucestershire.
“Also the younger players can feed into the senior
team, as well as attracting players from neighbouring
areas, as not many teams around here provide
opportunities to play County Level football.”
Nick Ford,
Youth Secretary
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Financial Summary
The Football Stadia Improvement Fund
Annual Review 2005-2006
Financial Statements for the
year ended 31 May 2006
These summarised financial statements may not contain
sufficient information to allow a full understanding of the
financial affairs of the Football Stadia Improvement Fund. For
further information the full annual financial statements, the
auditors’ report on those financial statements and Directors’
Annual Report should be consulted; copies of these are
available on the Football Foundation’s website
www.footballfoundation.org.uk.
The principal activity of the Company is to provide funding for
activities relating to the safety and redevelopment of football
stadia. During the year grants were awarded to clubs at all
levels of the game towards safety and improvement work such
as new stands and terraces, toilets, facilities for the disabled,
turnstiles, closed circuit television equipment and at lower levels
pitch work and floodlights.The Company intends to maintain its
current grant making activity over these categories. No director
received any remuneration from the Company during the year.
The full annual financial statements, from which these summary
financial statements are derived and on which the auditors gave
an unqualified opinion, were approved by the Directors on 24
January 2007, and have been delivered to the Registrar of
Companies.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
Sir David Richards
Chairman
24 January 2007
Independent auditors’
Statement to the Members
of the Football Stadia
Improvement Fund
We have examined the summary financial statement of the
Football Stadia Improvement Fund.
Respective responsibilities of the Directors and auditors
The directors are responsible for preparing the summarised
annual report in accordance with applicable law. Our
responsibility is to report to you our opinion on the consistency
of the summary financial statement within the summarised
annual report with the annual financial statements and the
directors' report and its compliance with the relevant
requirements of Section 251 of the Companies Act 1985 and
the regulations made there under.We also read the other
information contained in the summarised annual report and
consider the implications for our report if we become aware of
any apparent misstatements or material inconsistencies with the
summary financial statement.
This statement, including the opinion, has been prepared for and
only for the company's members as a body in accordance with
Section 251 of the Companies Act 1985 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
We conducted our work in accordance with bulletin 1999/6,
'The auditors' statement on the summary financial statement'
issued by the Auditing Practices Board for use in the United
Kingdom.
Opinion
In our opinion the summary financial statement is consistent
with the annual financial statements and the directors' report of
the Football Stadia Improvement Fund for the year ended 31
May 2006 and complies with the applicable requirements of
Section 251 of the Companies Act 1985, and the regulations
made thereunder.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors
London
24 January 2007
Notes:
(a) The maintenance and integrity of the Football Stadia Improvement Fund’s web site is the responsibility of the directors; the work carried out by the auditors does not
involve consideration of these matters and, accordingly, the auditors accept no responsibility for any changes that may have occurred to the financial statements since they
were initially presented on the web site.
(b) Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
The Football Stadia Improvement Fund
Annual Review 2005-2006
Profit and loss account
Year ended 31 May 2006
Year ended
31 May 2006
£’000
Year ended
31 May 2005
£’000
353
256
418
26
609
444
(455)
(259)
154
185
Gift aid payment to The Football Foundation
(416)
(403)
Loss on ordinary activities before taxation
(262)
(218)
-
-
(262)
(218)
31 May 2006
£’000
31 May 2005
£’000
-
-
249
2,185
9,589
12,023
1,795
2,599
9,186
13,580
(13,822)
(15,117)
Net current liabilities
(1,799)
(1,537)
Total assets less current liabilities
(1,799)
(1,537)
Net liabilities
(1,799)
(1,537)
Reserves
Profit and loss account
(1,799)
(1,537)
Income
Interest received
Other Income
Total income
Expenditure
Operating expenses
Operating profit
Taxation
Loss for the financial year
Balance sheet
At 31 May 2006
Fixed assets
Intangible assets
Current assets
Debtors - due within one year
- due in more than one year
Cash on deposit
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
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