ROYAL CANOE CLUB TRUST

Registered charity 1047632 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of amateur sport, specifically watersports including; canoeing, skiffing, rowing and dragon boating. The charity has focused on making enhanced provision of facilities for children and young people and disadvantaged groups

Objects

THE ORGANISATION AND PROVISION (EITHER ALONE OR IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER BODIES CHARITABLE OR OTHERWISE) OF FACILITIES FOR WATER RELATED AND OTHER PHYSICAL RECREATION AT THE ROYAL CANOE CLUB AND THE SKIFF CLUB, LONDON (AND/OR ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH AND/OR SOCIAL AND/OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES.

Area of benefit: LONDON AND/OR ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

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

Causes: Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £143,332 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by a £140,000 gain on the revaluation of its investment property. Per the trustees' report, the cash reserves position remains healthy, with total funds at year-end amounting to £720,828, which includes unrestricted reserves of £97,560. The charity continues to reduce its business mortgage debt while maintaining its facilities for community recreation.

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 4 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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 29/11/2024, 29 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 03/11/2022, 3 days after the 31/10/2022 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: CANOE CLUB (FREEHOLD) LIMITED Companies House 00259282
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02857013

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HOWARD, Roger James — director, appointed 18/05/2026on trustee list
• LINDSLEY, Sarah Jane — director, appointed 18/05/2026on trustee list
• HUMPHRIES, Timothy John — director, appointed 12/08/2025on trustee list
• SMITH, Daniel Kagoro — director, appointed 01/10/2020on trustee list
• BOYTON, Jonathan Robert — director, appointed 08/10/2018on trustee list
• CLARK, James Peter Hugh — director, appointed 11/11/2004on trustee list
• PRATT, Basil — director, appointed 15/10/1993on trustee list
• BOSHER, Martin — director, appointed 27/09/1993on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Daniel Kagoro Smith
• JAMES PETER HUGH CLARK
• Jonathan Robert Boyton
• MARTIN BOSHER
• REV BASIL PRATT
• ROGER JAMES HOWARD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Lindsley
• Timothy Humphries

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DEVIZES CANOE CLUB.

• DEVIZES CANOE CLUB income £46k
• LABURNUM BOAT CLUB income £411k
• ROYAL SOUTHERN YACHT CLUB TRUST income £61k
• HOLME PIERREPONT CANOE CLUB income £58k
• THE THAMES ROWING CLUB CHARITABLE TRUST income £48k
• ABERFAN CANOE CLUB income £31k

Side by side with its peers

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