BISHOP'S STORTFORD RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB (2015)

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  Audit opinion: Qualified

  Latest auditor's report carried a non-clean opinion.

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  5 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

• Turnover

  +18.3%

  £719,821 → £851,203

• Cash

  +24.1%

  £90,347 → £112,097

• Net assets

  -9.1%

  £1,044,145 → £949,473

• Employees

  +17.9%

  28 → 33

  highest in 6 filed years

• Operating profit

  -147.5%

  £181,703 → -£86,385

• Profit before tax

  -155.4%

  £170,929 → -£94,672

• Wages

  +9.6%

  £182,391 → £199,923

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Gravita Audit Oxford LLP

Audit opinion

Qualified

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the Trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Charity's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”

Group structure

1. BISHOP'S STORTFORD RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB (2015) · parent
   1. BSRFC Trading Limited 1%
   2. Friends of BSRFC 1%

Significant events

• “This is the fourth year we have funded a Community Coach at Bishop's Stortford Rugby Club, ... Unfortunately, however, this will be the last year of the initiative, as the funding program has come to an end.”
• “The 2024/25 season confirmed the position of our First XV for an eighth consecutive season in National League Rugby. We finished ninth in National One, which was a significant improvement on our performance last year.”
• “Our Women's team has done extremely well, winning their league unbeaten and gaining promotion for next season. They also expanded their numbers considerably and may be able to field two teams next season.”
• “We intended to continue fundraising for our main challenge, increasing the number and size of our changing rooms, ... This has not stopped us from completing Phase 1 of the construction plans...”
• “The major fundraising initiative for Phase 2 has been to sell, subject to planning permission, a small portion of land on the back fields... We are currently awaiting the outcome of the joint planning application between ourselves and the Developer for the construction of three houses on the land, which will trigger the release of funds.”
• “We have re-costed Phase 2 to £750,000. This can be met with the initial sum payable by the Developer of £850,000, when planning permission is in place, and a grant of £150,000 provided by Bishop's Stortford Town Council. The balance is to be funded directly from available Club funds.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

14

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

4

last 12 months

Officers resigned

5

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.