Because of the need to present audited figures to the AGM these results do not follow a “traditional” football season, thus some figures such as cup finals will relate to the previous season (2006/7).
If you have any detailed questions please email to david.lomax@wsyl.org.uk and these will be answered at the AGM.
Trophies: Trophies again is our biggest spend. Although we have increased our budget per trophy, the actual cost is less because this year we have less divisions and we not purchased Sportsmanship trophies.
Payment to General Secretary: The principle of a payment was approved by the membership 7 years ago. The increase is due to the expansion of the league.
Officers expenses: Officers expenses still continue to be a major expense item, although again this season we have reduced the cost by nearly 25% as we move away from traditional methods of administrating the league.
Cup Finals: This figure relates to Cup Finals in season 2006/7. There is a marked increase in costs this season as we have again played semi finals on neutral grounds. As with last season we have hired “Senior” grounds and produced a “quality” program.
Payment to Registration Secretary: Again this year production of ID cards was contracted out at 50p per ID card.
Stationery: Stationery costs have greatly increased this year, from the previous year, although last year was exceptionally low. The main reason for this was the extra cost of printing AGM packs because of a completely new Rule book needing to be approved at the AGM.
Inter-league: This year the SYL had another successful year in Inter-league competitions. Due to the need not to purchase new kit the overall cost of running Inter-League teams was less than previous season.
Rules Books: Again this season Gary Downs won the contract for production of the rule books. This year’s costs were in line with previous seasons.
Registration System: This is the standard yearly cost of printing the ID cards although we still had a supply of ID cards from the previous season, so blank ID cards did not need to be purchased this season.
Hall Hire: This is the direct costs of hiring Imber Court for Committee meetings, referee’s courses, AGM and Presentation day and is in line with previous seasons.
Miscellaneous : These are small value entries that do not merit their own categories.
Web Site: This is the direct cost of running the web site.
Applications returned: With reduced fees this has returned to a more manageable level.
SCFA: This is payments to SCFA which includes the cost of affiliation and a public liability insurance policy.
Purchase of Equipment: There were no major purchases this season.
Income
Applications/Registration: This is the second season of the revised pricing structure. Registration revenue is reduced as more teams registered their players before the 31st July dead line, also more teams took advantage of the “free” registration period for Mini teams. There is also a reduction in application fees this season as we had less 11-aside teams and more mini teams.
Fines: Last seasons trend of reduced revenue from fines has not carried through to this year with a marked increase in fines being levied, although this subsidises application fees it is revenue we would prefer not to have.
Donations: This year we have received a donation of £5000 on condition that we spent the money to improve sportsmanship in the league. We have already introduced a new system of reporting sportsmanship marks, which has proved very useful. We have budgeted to spend this money over the next 3 seasons, details will be revealed shortly.
Cup Finals: This is essentially the revenue generated from program sales. At £2 entry per adult we believe this is excellent value and we are still cheaper than SCFA finals.
Telephone Result service: This is in line with last season. Although we had more teams this year revenue did not increase as less people are using this service for updated results with people preferring to wait for the web site, although the “results” line is still proving a popular service.
Web Site: The website continues to be self funding.
Bank Interest: With little movement in interest rates during the season this figure is in line with the previous season.
Payments from SCGL: The SCGL now produce their own ID cards so this we will not be receiving this revenue stream in future
FA Grant: As indicated last year we were not eligible for a grant this season.
Conclusion/Summary
As in all seasons our aim is to break even over the period of the season, this year’s results show a “profit” of £7.9k, however £5k of this is a one off donation that we intend to spend over the next 3 years, none of this money has been spent yet. There is also a decrease in £2.9k in money we have spent on trophies this season, some of which is due to the fact that we have not had purchased sportsmanship trophies, the money saved on this will be put towards additional funding for sportsmanship that will be published shortly.