The Disabled Sailors Association

Registered charity 1028993 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DISABLED SAILORS ASSOCIATION, DSA RORO SAILING PROJECT, THOMAS MORLEY TRUST

provide recreation facilities and information for disabled and disadvantaged people

Objects

THE RELIEF OF DISABLED PEOPLE BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION.

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.

Causes: Disability · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Gosport, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £119,792, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £50,000 (three months of expenditure), although the trustees describe the current position as a 'very good achievement' given recent difficulties. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £11,947 for the year, driven by £774,751 in total income against £762,804 in charitable expenditure. The trustees note that the bank balance was low at £8,386 due to prioritizing project spending, but confirm that operations are continuing with no material uncertainties identified.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Disabled Sailors Association (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (94% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHAEL WOOD MBEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Bullen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Bastiaens · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon Robinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Talan Skeels-Piggins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Victoria Knight

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

Operates in: France · Spain · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WEALDEN SAILABILITY.

• WEALDEN SAILABILITY income £43k
• RUTLAND SAILABILITY income £263k
• THE BRITISH DISABLED ANGLING ASSOCIATION income £242k
• EAST ANGLIAN SAILING TRUST income £67k
• ACCESSIBLE BOATING ASSOCIATION income £45k
• DISABLED SAILING ASSOCIATION LTD income £100k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.