BLACKPOOL POLAR BEARS

Registered charity 1082638 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Multi Disability Swimming and Recreation Club, covering Blackpool Wyre and Fylde. Supports swimming and social activities for people with a wide range of disabilities. Usually around 100 - 130 members are involved in swimming and social activities and 53 volunteers subject to DBS checks. Regular swimming activities sessions at Moor Park Swimming Pool take place on Sunday mornings.

Objects

TO HELP PERSONS WITH LEARNING AND/OR PHYSICAL DISABILITIES TO ACHIEVE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL AND TO ENCOURAGE THEIR INTEGRATION IN SOCIETY AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THEIR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION, IN PARTICULAR WATER SPORT ACTIVITIES, FOR THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE IN ORDER THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity does not employ any staff and relies on volunteers. The filing was subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit, with the examiner confirming that no matters requiring attention were identified during the review of accounting records.

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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Blackpool Polar Bears (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW FINLAYSON
• ANN ELIZABETH FOSTER
• Alan Morrison
• CHARMAINE BORG
• DONNA - LOUISE DAVIES
• DONNA HOLLAMBY · trustee of 1 other charity
• EMMA INGLIS
• LYNDA INGLIS
• Tracy Ann Crook

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

Operates in: Blackpool

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).