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Regulator to probe youth sports charity

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The Charity Commission has launched an investigation into a youth sports charity in Walsall, an area with one of the highest rates of child poverty in the country.
Walsall Wood Saints JFC provides football opportunities for children and young people aged three to 18 years old. Picture: X

The investigation by the charity regulator will look at the organisation of Walsall Wood Saints Junior Football Club as well as another charity Walsall Wood Community Football Club, which it is linked with.

The probes have been launched after both failed to submit financial information to the regulator for two or more years out of five, which they are required to do by law.

The junior club failed to supply its accounts for the year ending May 2023 and its previous year’s financial information was found to be “non-compliant”. It is currently almost a year late in filing its most recent accounts. 

Its latest available accounts for the year ending May 2022 show its income was £44,570, while it spent £44,640.

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