SEA WATCH FOUNDATION, THE CETACEAN MONITORING UNIT

Registered charity 1013002 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SEA WATCH

In partnership with the public, Sea Watch studies and protects whales, dolphins and porpoises, particularly in U.K. waters, and promotes awareness of cetacean and marine conservation. This benefits all communities and provides essential information for EU and UK Governments, NGOs and researchers seeking to study and protect cetaceans and the marine environment.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND UNDERTAKE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE STUDY PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF CETACEANS,TO UNDERTAKE RELEVANT RESEARCH AND TO PUBLISH THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £530,502, supported by a stated policy to maintain reserves equivalent to one year's expenditure. The charity reports an upturn in its economic situation following previous difficulties, with no material uncertainties affecting its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTONY NEIL OSBORN
• CRAIG MILLER
• Dr JAMES JEFFREY WAGGITT
• Dr JAMES ROBERT BORAN
• GEORGE SAMUEL BOYER
• HANNAH MARY PARKINSON
• JAMIE ROBERT MARK SMITH
• Katherine Elizabeth Baker
• MICHAEL EDWARD BAINES
• PROFESSOR GRAHAM JOHN PIERCE BSC PHD
• Professor John Russell Turner BSc DPhil

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Guernsey · Isle Of Man · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION UK.

• CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION UK income £569k
• MALDIVES WHALE SHARK RESEARCH PROGRAMME LIMITED income £250k
• NATUREWATCH FOUNDATION income £720k
• SEA LIFE TRUST LIMITED income £6.8m
• WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATION income £5.2m
• NORTH SEA CONSERVATION income £294k

Side by side with its peers

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