THE ASSOCIATION OF SAIL TRAINING ORGANISATIONS

Registered charity 1083059 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ASTO, THE ASSOCIATION OF SEA TRAINING ORGANISATIONS

ASTO distributes bursary funds to member organisations to support the provision of Sail Training opportunities in the UK. It organises events such as the Small Ships' Races to promote Sail Training, runs international exchanges with other Sail Training organisations, and encourages greater participation. It gathers evidence of the outcomes and actively promotes Sail Training and its benefits.

Objects

SUCH OBJECTS AND PURPOSES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) THROUGH PROMOTING THE PROVISION OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR SEA TRAINING UNDER SAIL OR POWER (1) TO PROVIDE INSTRUCTION TO YOUNG PERSONS AND TO ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES IN THE PRINCIPALS OF RESPONSIBILITY, RESOURCEFULNESS, LOYALTY AND TEAM ENDEAVOUR AND (2) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE ART OF SEAMANSHIP.

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: Education/training · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit for the year of £178,191, primarily due to total resources expended exceeding incoming resources, although this was offset by significant gains on investments. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £9,929,485, which the trustees consider sufficient to generate income to fund the Association’s activities for the indefinite future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Blue Spire Limited. 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 policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Investment
• 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

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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark Toddchair
• Amanda Butcher
• Annant Shah
• CLAIRE ELIZABETH THATCHER
• CRAIG BERNARD BURTON
• David George Snelson
• John Brian Hansen Johnson
• Lindsay Elizabeth Bridges
• Martin Coles · trustee of 1 other charity
• Neil Victor Northmore
• Raymond John Cockrem
• TIMOTHY JOHN JAMES

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 WESTON SAILING CLUB.

• WESTON SAILING CLUB income £49k
• EAST ANGLIAN SAILING TRUST income £67k
• HAWLEY LAKE SAIL TRAINING CENTRE income £187k
• Sail Training Trust income £195k
• ARMY SAILING ASSOCIATION income £963k
• THE SWIMMING TEACHERS ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £2.6m

Side by side with its peers

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