THE FOOTBALL STADIA IMPROVEMENT FUND • ANNUAL REPORT 2002/03
Modern and safe facilities for fans to enjoy the game
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Contents
Chairman’s Report
5
Chief Executive
6
Role of FSIF
8
Disabled Access
9
Floodlighting
10
Spectators
11
CCTV
12
Grant Offers
13
Financial Summary
16
Funded by
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Chairman’s Report
Dave Richards, Chairman
Welcome to the annual report from the
From installing CCTV, improving access for
Football Stadia Improvement Fund. May I start
disabled spectators, to constructing new
by acknowledging the invaluable contribution
stadia, there are few fans that have not
of my predecessor, Lord Pendry.
benefited from our spending.
In my first year as Chairman of the Football
I would also like to thank the staff and panel
Stadia Improvement Fund we have seen the
members at the FSIF for their expertise and
continuing transformation of the game. From
guidance over the last three years, and
County Leagues to the First Division football
particularly the funding partners, the FA
now boasts some of the finest stadia in the
Premier League, The FA and the Government
world.
for their determination to put something back
into the game. The unprecedented
In this, the third FSIF annual report, I am
redistribution provided by the game itself is
delighted to announce that spending on the
creating a new generation of facilities and
safety and improvement work has to date
leaving an indelible legacy for the future of
reached £64.5 million. This unprecedented
football.
investment is permanently changing the face of
football in this country.
This investment is tribute to the hard work and
dedication of the clubs themselves who are
determined to bring their facilities up to the
standards demanded by the modern game.
“This investment is tribute to the
hard work and dedication of the
clubs themselves”
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Peter Lee, Chief Executive
The FSIF has funded over 750 projects with
Over 530 clubs throughout the pyramid have
total project costs of over £162m. In our third
benefited from FSIF funding which has topped
year, with nearly all of the large scale stadium
£18.5m for projects worth £42m to non
projects completed, we have targeted our
league football.
resources at essential safety and improvement
work throughout the game.
Football grounds in England set the standard
throughout the world. The FSIF has played its
A vital initiative was taken when, following the
part in achieving this and in ensuring we have
collapse of the ITV Digital deal, the FSIF
both depth and high quality. The standard of
extended £20m over the past two years in
spectator facilities, stands, changing rooms
much needed grant support to help sustain
and pitches we have funded is unrivalled
Football League clubs.
world-wide.
With FSIF funding, Football League clubs have
invested over £120m creating a modern and
safe environment for their fans and players.
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“With FSIF funding,
Football League
clubs have invested
over £120m creating
a modern and safe
environment for their
fans and players”
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Role of FSIF
CCTV Systems • Pitch Drainage •
New Stands • Floodlights • Traffic Signs
• Turnstiles • Health and Safety Courses
• Terracing • Roofs • Players Changing
Rooms • Commentary Headsets • Fencing
• PA Systems • Disabled Toilets • Irrigation
• Stewards • Radios • Traffic Management
• Dugouts • Stewards Qualifications •
New Showers • Electricity Generators
• Disabled Fans Facilities • Pedestrian
Signs • Traffic Calming Measures • Pitch
Levelling • Handheld CCTV Cameras •
Referees Changing Rooms • Emergency
Exits • New Stadiums
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Disabled Access
The needs of the disabled spectator are of paramount
importance to the FSIF and all concerned with the game
FSIF funded projects worth almost £1m are
blueprint for all other sporting venues to follow.
already underway improving access to grounds
It includes recommendations regarding viewing
for fans with disabilities and ensuring equity in
standards for spectators in wheelchairs and
the facilities available to them. Many clubs are
facilities to accommodate a diverse range of
now making the most of FSIF investment,
sensory and ambulant disabilities.
adopting advances in building and IT
technology to ensure that the experience of
“This guide underlines football’s commitment
going to the match is as enjoyable for disabled
to lead the way in providing and improving
fans as it is for the able bodied.
facilities for disabled fans. For the first time
architects, designers and local authorities can
To ensure that all concerned with the game,
now pick up one definitive document that
from clubs to stadia designers, are aware of
outlines the standards disabled fans expect at
their responsibilities the FSIF, in conjunction
sports stadia throughout the country.”
with the Football Licensing Authority (FLA),
Geoff Webb, Director of Facility and Stadia
produced the first definitive guide for over 11
Development at the FSIF and Football
years to set the standard for both new and
Foundation
existing grounds. ‘Accessible Stadia’ brings
together all relevant legislation,
“The close co-operation of disabled supporters
recommendations and guidelines regarding
organisations has proved invaluable. The
accessibility to stadia for disabled spectators.
football world can be proud of this initiative
and it is hoped that all sports, not only football,
The document is a unique collaboration
will benefit from the excellent advice that this
involving disabled supporters organisations
guide provides.”
and the football authorities and will provide a
Tony Speed, Chairman of the FLA
“Football’s commitment to lead the way in providing
and improving facilities for disabled fans”
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Floodlighting
As the game develops the traditional Saturday afternoon kick
off has given way to an increasing number of evening matches
To keep pace with these developments
both players and fans alike advances in
throughout the game the FSIF has allocated
floodlighting technology mean that evening
over £4m in providing 110 clubs with modern
kick-offs are an enjoyable and essential
floodlighting systems, the majority within the
addition to their season.
non league game.
Clubs such as Accrington Stanley in the
Football Conference to Brigdwater Town in the
Western League Premier now boast
outstanding systems for evening matches. For
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Spectators
The largest part of the work of the FSIF has been improving
spectator facilities at grounds throughout the country
Particularly the construction and the
redevelopment of stands. The FSIF has
provided over £7m for essential stand
improvement work worth over £35m. Over
100 clubs have made the most of the funding
available through FSIF grants creating a new
generation of spectator stands, to meet the
requirements of the modern game.
NOTHWICH VICTORIA
Thanks in part to a £500,000 grant from the
Football Stadia Improvement Fund Northwich
Victoria have been able to start construction on
a new home ground.
The FSIF grant now means that Vics’ fans can
look forward to some of the best facilities in the
league at their new Victoria Stadium, which will
house 4,500 spectators, over 1,200 of which
will be seated. Included in the design are
modern and inclusive facilities for disabled fans,
along with easy access and accommodation in
the covered new Main Stand.
The new site will replace the historic Drill Field,
where football has been played since 1875,
which has been recognised as the oldest
football ground in the world but which was
unable to cope with the demands of the modern
game and the expansion of football in the town.
David Stone, Chairman of Northwich Victoria,
expressed the gratitude of the Northwich
Victoria Board: “We are absolutely delighted
with the award, one of the largest given to a
club at our level and we would like to thank the
FSIF for making this available to us. In addition
to the maximum improvement grant of
£400,000, the Fund has awarded £100,000
towards the relocation costs, which means that
the Victoria Stadium can be completed to the
standard first envisaged.”
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CCTV
Improvements in safety and security for fans has led to
an increasing amount of CCTV surveillance on match days
Advances in security systems has co-incided
with a decrease in violence, and racial abuse
and an increasing number of families attending
matches.
Almost 20 clubs now boast state of the art
CCTV systems at their grounds to which the
FSIF has contributed over half a million pounds.
The importance of these projects cannot be
over estimated, from revamped control centres,
to providing police and security officers with
hand held systems, FSIF cash is now making
our grounds a safer and more enjoyable
experience for millions of fans every season.
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HARTLEPOOL UNITED
A FSIF grant of £34,350 allowed third division
Hartlepool United to replace their antiquated
CCTV system. The previous cameras did not
allow full coverage of the ground making any
crowd disturbances difficult to deal with
effectively. Nine dome cameras and five static
colour cameras plus improvements to the
control centre and DVD recording facilities
now allow the police and stewards full
coverage of Victoria Park.
Safety and Improvement
Panel – Grant Offers
Club
Aldershot Town FC
Asfordby Amateurs Sports Club
Ashville FC
Atherton Laburnum Rovers FC
Aylesbury United FC
Bagborough Rovers FC
Barclays FC
Bartley Green FC
Bedfont Football & Social Club
Belper Town FC
Berkhamsted Town FC
Bexhill United FC
Biggleswade United FC
Blandford United FC
Bournemouth Sports AFC
Bradford City FC
Bridgwater Town (1984) FC
Bridgwater Town (1984) FC
Brighton and Hove Albion FC
Brimsdown Sport & Social Club
Burgess Hill Town FC
Burton Albion FC
Burton Albion FC
Callington Town FC
Cardiff City FC
Cheltenham Saracens FC
Clevedon Town A.F.C.
Coalville Town FC
Colchester United FC
Coppull United FC
Cotgrave Colliery Welfare United FC
Coventry Sphinx FC
Crawley Down FC
Curzon Ashton FC
Dorchester Town Football Club
Droylsden AFC
Dunkirk Sports and Social Club
Dunster FC
East Preston FC
Eaton Socon FC
Eccleshall FC
Elton Vale FC
Enfield Town FC
Esh Winning AFC
Esh Winning AFC
Euxton Villa FC
Evenwood Town AFC
Description
Turnstiles, toilets, security fencing
Floodlights
Floodlights, re-roof covered area
Pitch drainage
Disabled access
Pitch drainage
Pitch perimeter fence
Football stand and base
Changing rooms
New spectator stand
Pitch drainage and development
Fencing, toilet improvements
Match official changing rooms, spectator hard standing, pitch perimeter fence
Pitch perimeter barriers
Rigid pitch barrier for ground grading requirements
South Stand - alterations to toilets, disabled seating
Turnstiles, concrete pitch surround
Spectator barrier
Loan - covered seating, safety systems
New fencing and hard standing
New seated stand
New irrigation system, team shelters
Traffic signage
Pitch drainage
Safety work
Changing rooms, covered accommodation, floodlights
Pitch drainage
Ground improvements
Upgrade barriers
Pitch drainage
Installation of floodlights
Floodlights
Floodlights, hard standing, team shelters, public address system
Relocation
Escape gates in pitch perimeter wall, Installation of water softener
Terracing, crush barriers
Pitch perimeter fence, turnstile entrance
Shower and toilet facilities, electricity supply
New seated stand
Pitch perimeter fence
Boundary fencing, clubhouse alterations
Pitch perimeter fence
Seated stand, covered enclosures, turnstiles
New car park, disabled toilet
Fencing
Pitch drainage
New power supply for floodlights
Grant Amount
£132,000
£10,000
£10,000
£25,788
£1,500
£700
£3,530
£9,144
£62,359
£135,000
£27,351
£3,500
£88,921
£1,473
£1,534
£198,000
£16,000
£14,602
£250,000
£45,965
£41,000
£3,970
£1,150
£9,500
£33,192
£94,431
£11,803
£10,000
£7,400
£10,000
£10,000
£10,000
£43,719
£100,000
£4,586
£109,827
£10,000
£6,412
£4,950
£5,528
£9,742
£3,800
£13,172
£1,980
£25,147
£9,000
£7,354
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Club
Farleigh Rovers FC
Farnborough Town FC
Farnborough Town FC
Football Safety Officers
Football Safety Officers
Forest Green Rovers FC
Frampton United FC
Frizington White Star FC
FSADC
Gainsborough Trinity FC
Garforth Town AFC
Godmanchester Sports Association Trust
Goole Town AFC
Gosport Borough FC
Graham Street Prims FC
Guyhirn FC
Hailsham Town FC
Hamworthy Recreation Club
Harrogate Town AFC
Hastings Town FC
Hendon FC
Herne Bay FC
Hinckley United FC
Hinton FC
Hollinwood FC
Holmer Green FC
Homes of Football
Hull City FC
Hyde United FC
Irlam Mitchell Shackleton FC
Kidderminster Harriers FC
Kidderminster Harriers FC
Kimberley Kimberley Town FC
Lancashire Police Authority
Ledbury Town FC
Leigh RMI FC
Lewes FC
Leyton Orient FC
Lincoln Moorlands FC
Little Drayton Rangers FC
Long Melford FC
Manford Way FC
Mangotsfield United FC
Mansfield Town FC
Marine Association FC
Merstham FC
Millwall FC
Morecambe FC
Morecambe FC
Mossley Hill
Narborough & Littlethorpe FC
Needingworth United FC
Newquay Association FC
North Ferriby United FC
Northwood Football Club
Northwood Football Club
Old Modernians FC
Oxhey Jets FC
Padiham FC
Description
Grant Amount
Improvement to changing rooms
£9,027
New seats with backs in main stand
£4,135
Traffic signage scheme
£1,600
Safety officers training programme
£75,880
Administrator
£102,344
Traffic signage
£1,600
Extension to the changing rooms
£8,195
Pitch drainage installation of catch water drain and vertidrain
£1,287
Disabled access guide
£63,456
Pitch improvements
£16,185
Build new covered stand, resurface pitch surround
£5,778
Provision of dugouts, hard surface pitch surround, spectator barriers
£29,583
Covered standing
£18,500
Clubhouse works, floodlights, tarmac surface
£97,700
Perimeter fencing
£10,000
Electric supply, septic tank, water connection, supply and fix water tank and showers
£6,000
Floodlights
£18,941
Pitch drainage
£3,284
Upgrade electricity supply
£1,955
New public address system
£17,710
Ground relocation
£150,000
Pitch perimeter fence, renovation of changing rooms
£85,548
New stadium
£28,326
Drainage, perimeter fencing, pitch side dugouts
£5,458
Pitch drainage
£9,353
Infill to rail and hard standing around the pitch perimeter.
£5,471
Homes of Football publication
£7,500
Traffic signage
£7,500
Pitch perimeter fence, replace stanchions, tree clearance
£10,000
Pitch perimeter fence
£9,105
New east stand - grant
£850,000
New east stand - loan
£50,000
Security fencing
£7,329
New camcorder
£849
Floodlights
£10,000
Traffic signage
£500
New stand, entrance, covered standing
£150,000
Traffic signage
£665
Pitch fencing extension, seats in shelter
£3,907
Pitch fencing
£10,000
Changing rooms, floodlights
£15,456
Removable perimeter railing, dugouts
£10,000
Facilities upgrade
£69,958
Traffic signage scheme
£5,625
Ground improvements
£44,728
New changing rooms, fencing
£100,000
Closed circuit television
£109,600
Traffic signage scheme
£480
New seating
£3,315
Spectator fencing around pitch
£4,915
Pitch drainage, changing room heating
£8,447
Floodlighting
£10,000
Refurbishment of stand, pathway and new store room
£3,373
New stand extensions, new toilet block, new turnstiles block
£45,596
Replacement of floodlight switch gear
£14,840
Ground improvements
£7,000
Pitch drainage
£10,000
Floodlights
£10,000
Floodlights
£55,836
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Club
Pennington FC
Penzance Association FC
Percy Main Amateurs FC
Pickering Town CFC
Pickering Town CFC
Pinxton Parish Council
Portsmouth FC
Prudhoe Town FC
Prudhoe Town FC
Punnets Town FC
Redhill FC
Rushden & Diamonds FC
Rye and Iden United FC
Sheffield United FC
Sheffield United FC
Somersham Town FC
Southend Manor FC
Southend United FC
Southwick FC
Sproughton Sports FC/Sproughton Parish
St Leonards FC
St Neots Town FC
Staines Lammas FC
Staines Town FC
Stalybridge Celtic FC
Steeton FC
Storrington FC
Street FC
Sutton Courtenay FC
Sutton Town FC
Teversal FC
Tilbury FC
Tiptree United Football and Social Club
Tiverton Town FC
Torquay United FC
Trafford FC
Walsall FC
Warrington Town FC
Wealden FC
Wembley FC
Wenhaston United FC
West Allotment Celtic FC
West Kirkby FC
West Midlands Police
Westbury United FC
Westfields FC
White Ensign FC
Wigan Police Division Headquarters
Willington FC
Windscale FC
Winterton Rangers FC
Witham Town Football & Social Club
Woking FC
Wolverhampton Wanderers FC
Worthing FC
Wotton Rovers FC
Yeovil Town FC
Description
Changing rooms refurbishment, kitchen, reception area, toilet block work
Floodlights
Boundary fencing
New tractor and quad main frame
Turnstiles
Refurbishment/upgrade facilities, upgrade pitch side facilities
Hand held camera
Grass mower
Pitch walkway
Sand slitting to improve drainage
New changing facilities
Temporary signage scheme
Floodlights
Resurface car park
Refurbishment and reconstruction of turnstiles and housing
Maintenance storage equipment building
Changing room, disabled toilet
Electrical works
Rebuilding changing facilities
Conversion of sports club into changing rooms and showers
Changing facilities and perimeter fencing
Pitch drainage
Pitch drainage and treatment, hard standing, barrier, dugouts
Pitch renovation, stand, perimeter ground works
New stand and floodlighting
Officials changing room
Improve changing facilities, upgrade covered area and disabled access
Floodlights
Install central heating system for comfort of players and officials
Fencing and disabled access
Floodlights
Perimeter fencing
Public address system
Barrier and turnstiles
Colour video printer
Relaying of drainage
Public address system
Changing rooms
Public address system, turnstile, perimeter fencing
Pitch drainage
Improve changing facilities
Spectator stand, dug-outs, pitch side barrier
Security fencing
CCTV upgrade for Aston Villa and Birmingham City FCs
Pitch drainage, fencing
Relocation to Moor House Sports Field
Covered grandstands
Video equipment
Upgrade electricity supply
Floodlights
Ground improvements
Seating and roofing to terrace, fencing
Traffic signage scheme
CCTV
Pitch drainage
Perimeter fencing
Traffic signage
Grant Amount
£10,000
£10,000
£8,000
£8,390
£8,789
£5,400
£1,500
£9,362
£7,375
£10,000
£100,000
£1,650
£30,500
£5,000
£161,907
£10,000
£12,217
£21,500
£100,000
£8,050
£19,269
£5,400
£3,252
£120,000
£340,000
£5,360
£100,000
£10,000
£2,243
£10,000
£10,000
£25,660
£1,031
£18,120
£960
£28,824
£12,405
£98,820
£5,000
£48,774
£5,156
£10,000
£10,000
£9,997
£73,400
£27,637
£10,000
£2,306
£7,728
£10,000
£87,518
£28,550
£1,200
£55,000
£29,617
£1,587
£4,500
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Financial Summary
Financial Statements for the year ended 31 May 2003
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 can be obtained from the Director of Finance, 25 Soho Square, London W1D 4FF.
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 10 December 2003, and have been
delivered to the Registrar of Companies.
On behalf of the Board of Trustees
David Richards
Chairman
10 December 2003
Auditors’ Statement to the Members of the Football
Stadia Improvement Fund
We have examined the summarised financial statements set out on page 17-18.
Respective responsibilities of the Directors and auditors
You are responsible as Directors for the preparation of the financial statements. We have agreed to report to you
our opinion on the summarised statements’ consistency with the full financial statements, on which we reported to
you on 10 December 2003.
Basis of opinion
We have carried out the procedures necessary to ascertain whether the summarised financial statements are
consistent with the full financial statements from which they have been prepared.
Opinion
In our opinion the summarised financial statements are consistent with the full financial statements of the Football
Stadia Improvement Fund for the year ended 31 May 2003.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors
1 Embankment Place
London WC2N 6RH
10 December 2003
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Profit and loss account
Year ended 31 May 2003
Year ended
31 May 2003
Year ended
31 May 2002
£’000
£’000
Income
Interest received
Other Income
Total income
426
25
451
544
–
544
Expenditure
Operating expenses
(494)
(353)
Operating (loss)/profit
Gift aid payment to The Football Foundation
(43)
(337)
191
(458)
Loss before taxation
Taxation
(380)
–
(267)
–
Retained loss for the year
(380)
(267)
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Balance sheet
At 31 May 2003
Fixed assets
Intangible assets
Current assets
Debtors - due within one year
- due in more than one year
Cash on deposit
31 May 2003
31 May 2002
£’000
£’000
(86)
(171)
1,719
2,004
13,031
16,754
2,260
3,294
18,298
23,852
(10,774)
(13,556)
Net current assets
5,980
10,296
Total assets less current liabilities
5,894
10,125
Capital funds: falling due in more than one year
(6,842)
(10,693)
Net liabilities
(948)
(568)
Capital and reserves
Profit and loss account
(948)
(568)
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
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