The Charity Commission has opened statutory inquiries into two linked community football charities in the West Midlands over faulty, missing, and late-filed accounts.
In July 2022, the commission placed Walsall Wood Community Football Club (WWCFC) into its double defaulter class inquiry after the charity had failed to submit its accounts and wider financial information for two years. The regulator found that WWCFC had also failed to follow correct practice when filing accounts for three consecutive financial years up until June 2022. Last June, the commission began monitoring Walsall Wood Saints Junior Football Club after identifying links between this charity and WWCFC. Walsall Wood Saints Junior Football Club failed to file accounts for the year ending 30 June 2023 and submitted non-compliant accounts in 2022. Read here about the inquiry.