OCEAN YOUTH TRUST SOUTH

Registered charity 1079959 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OCEAN YOUTH TRUST (SOUTH)

OCEAN YOUTH TRUST SOUTH PROVIDES THE OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 12 AND 25 FROM THE WIDEST RANGE OF BACKGROUNDS TO EXPERIENCE ADVENTURE UNDER SAIL. OUR VESSEL, PROLIFIC, A 30-METRE KETCH, WAS DESIGNED ESPECIALLY AS A SAIL TRAINING VESSEL, SAILING TO SOUTH COAST AND EUROPEAN PORTS AND LONGER TALL SHIPS RACE EVENTS. WE OFFER RYA AND D OF E RESIDENTIAL COURSES.

Objects

1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF YOUNG PERSONS UP TO THE AGE OF 25 YEARS PRINCIPALLY FROM THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND AND FROM ALL OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (THE "BENEFICIARIES") IN YACHTING, BOAT SAILING, SEAMANSHIP AND NAVIGATION2) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR YACHTING AND BOAT SAILING IN ORDER TO HELP EDUCATE THE BENEFICIARIES THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Area of benefit: THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND AND FROM ALL OTHER PARTS OF 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: Education/training · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with total reserves of £1,777,458, including £399,498 in free reserves, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain operations. The trustees report a satisfactory financial position, supported by significant one-off donations and high demand for sailing berths, with no material uncertainties regarding 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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)

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03898084 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ocean Youth Trust South (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• PAGE, Andrew — director, appointed 01/07/2025on trustee list
• BOWNS, Unity — director, appointed 09/11/2024on trustee list
• STEVENS, James Edward — director, appointed 17/07/2023on trustee list
• BOLTON, Roger Matthew — director, appointed 26/01/2021on trustee list
• HICKS, John Christopher — director, appointed 21/01/2021on trustee list
• POWE, Martyn Jeremy — director, appointed 21/05/2020on trustee list
• MOSSCROP, Lee James — director, appointed 09/11/2019on trustee list
• BISHOP, Edward James — director, appointed 25/07/2017on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Johann Lesley — director, appointed 12/11/2016on trustee list
• GRIFFITHS, Richard Lloyd — director, appointed 10/06/2009on trustee list
• LACEY, Stephen Peter — director, appointed 22/02/2004not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~26.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (70% 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: 4.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lesley Robinsonchair
• Andrew Page
• Edward Bishop
• James Stevens · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Christopher Hicks
• Lee James Mosscrop
• MR STEVE LACEY
• Martyn Jeremy Powe
• RICHARD GRIFFITHS
• Roger Matthew Bolton
• Unity Bowns

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

Operates in: Denmark · Finland · Germany · Lithuania · Poland · Sweden · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OCEAN YOUTH TRUST NORTH.

• OCEAN YOUTH TRUST NORTH income £233k
• ROSELAND YOUTH SAILING TRUST income £68k
• THE PORTISHEAD NAUTICAL TRUST income £118k
• CHRISTIAN YOUTH ENTERPRISES SAILING CENTRE income £1.2m
• Sail Training Trust income £195k
• ADVENTURES OFFSHORE income £108k

Side by side with its peers

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