OSCR Scottish charity profile

Ayr United Football Academy Ltd

ActiveCharity number SC037325
Registered2 December 2005
Main locationSouth Ayrshire
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC037325
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
51-100 volunteers
Staff
38
Postcode
KA89NB

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The fundamental purpose of our charity is to promote lifelong learning, health and wellbeing, primarily in South Ayrshire, through football. This aim is summarised in the essential strapline ‘Building a Better Community Through Football’. To achieve this:- We encourage participation in sport for people of all ages, regardless of background or ability. and We pursue a model of sporting excellence to allow talented boys and girls a platform from which to reach their individual goals and play the sport at the highest level.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of public participation in sport

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

(1) To provide, in the interests of social welfare, facilities for recreation and other leisure time activities available to the public at large with a view to improving their conditions of life. (2) To promote community participation in healthy recreation, in particular by the provision of facilities for the playing of football and other sports. (3) To promote and protect the wellbeing and physical health of people living in the vicinity of the facilities operated by the company, and to assist in the relief of ill health and the provision of health education for such people. (4) To promote public safety in the interests of the general public, and in particular by promoting initiatives and programmes which are directed towards reducing the incidence of vandalism and other anti-social behaviour by encouraging participation in sports. (5) To help young people to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities, such that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and as members of society. (6) To promote training, particularly in such skills as will assist the participants in obtaining paid employment. (7) To promote, establish, operate and/or support other projects and initiatives of a charitable nature.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 May 2025£731,110£678,3703826 February 2026
31 May 2024£700,301£684,8973812 December 2024
31 May 2023£491,059£503,2333826 February 2024
31 May 2022£480,405£473,0323823 February 2023
31 May 2021£426,024£371,5783824 February 2022

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
Somerset Park , Tryfield Place , Ayr, South Ayrshire
Website supplied to OSCR
www.aufa.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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