HULL OPTIMISTS

Registered charity 1014672 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Teaching swimming to people who have not learned by conventional methods.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES BY THE PROVISION, PROMOTION AND TEACHING OF SWIMMING USING RECOGNISED METHODS SUCH AS THE HALLIWICK METHOD, THE WATSU METHOD OR OTHER EFFECTIVE METHODS AND BY RAISING SELF ESTEEM, CONFIDENCE AND PROMOTING MORE ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES BY INVOLVING THEM IN SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY EVENTS.

Area of benefit: HULL

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

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Policies the charity declares

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
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• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 20/11/2023, 20 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Crofts Hull Optimists
• Carol Holmes
• Carol Wild
• David Elder
• Julie Orriss
• KAREN BROCKWELL FISTC
• MRS PAM CROFTS
• Scott Orriss

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

Operates in: Kingston Upon Hull City

Income and spending

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