THE RYA FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1084351 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RYA SAILABILITY

The charity's objectives are: to provide or assist in the provision of facilities for recreation for disabled people; to promote and encourage recreational sailing by disabled people through co-ordination and integration with sailing clubs and associations. The trustees achieve this by undertaking fundraising activities and making appropriate grants.

Objects

The objects of the Charity are, for the benefit of the public, the promotion of community participation in healthy recreation of the sport of boating by (but not exclusively by):a) the provision of facilities, equipment and training for participation in boating;b) the provision of grants and other assistance to individuals in need by reason of their youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage; c) the advancement of education of the general public on boating and water safety and environmental protection of the seas, inland waters and marine coastal habitats;and in any other ways which are exclusively charitable under the laws of England and Wales as the Trustees may from time to time think fit.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, 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 · Disability · 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 FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that net assets increased to £397,177, with unrestricted funds at £175,522 and restricted funds at £221,655. The Trustees believe there is no need for a reserves policy as grant making is restricted by available funds, noting that overheads are minimized and the charity has no paid staff. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. 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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04129560

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The RYA Foundation (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.

• WILCOX, Hannah — director, appointed 23/09/2025on trustee list
• BIBBY, Keith — director, appointed 19/11/2023on trustee list
• NEYLAN, Katherine Margaret — director, appointed 19/11/2023on trustee list
• GUNN, Alison Louise — director, appointed 17/11/2021on trustee list
• DELANY, Margaret Patricia — director, appointed 17/11/2021on trustee list
• SOWLER, Abigail Jacqueline — director, appointed 24/10/2018on trustee list
• BLACHFORD, Debbie Elizabeth — director, appointed 06/01/2017on trustee list
• MURRAY, David Lyall — secretary, appointed 01/03/2011

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Debbie BLACHFORDchair
• Abigail Sowler
• Alison Louise Gunn
• Hannah Wilcox
• Katherine Margaret Neylan
• Keith Bibby
• Margaret Patricia Delany

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RECREATION AND EASY ACCESS FOR DISABLED YOUTH.

• RECREATION AND EASY ACCESS FOR DISABLED YOUTH income £53k
• DIYYA income £197k
• ROYAL SOUTHERN YACHT CLUB TRUST income £61k
• THE LYME REGIS SEA SCHOOL TRUST income £104k
• RUTLAND SAILABILITY income £263k
• GET KIDS GOING income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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