SWALLOWS OF HELSTON GYMNASTICS CLUB

Registered charity 1088122 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SWALLOWS

Operation of a Gymnastics Club

Objects

(I) TO ORGANISE, PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE ORGANISATION OR PROVISION OF FACILITIES WHICH WILL ENABLE AND ENCOURAGE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN FULL TIME EDUCATION TO UNDERTAKE GYMNASTICS AND TO ASSIST IN AND ENSURING THAT DUE ATTENTION IS GIVEN TO THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SUCH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AS WELL AS TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND OCCUPATION OF THEIR MINDS.(II) TO ORGANISE, PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE ORGANISATION OR PROVISION OF GYMNASTIC FACILITIES FOR CHILDREN OF PRE-SCHOOL AGE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND(III) WHEN THE FACILITIES OF THE CHARITY ARE NOT REQUIRED FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF OBJECTS IN 1 AND 2 ABOVE, THEY MAY BE USED FOR THE PROMOTION OF PHYSICAL HEALTH AND FITNESS FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR UNDERTAKING OF GYMNASTICS AND OTHER RELATED SPORTING ACTIVITIES

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £6,711 for the year ended 30 September 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £160,331 to £153,620. Despite this deficit, unrestricted reserves stood at £152,614, which is significantly above the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £40,000. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04237068 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Swallows of Helston gymnastics club (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.

• OSBORNE, Catherine Anne, Dr — director, appointed 28/03/2023on trustee list
• BOWMAN, Danielle — director, appointed 21/03/2022on trustee list
• BANGAY, Susan Elizabeth — secretary, appointed 03/12/2013

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Danielle Bowman
• Dr Catherine Osborne

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

Operates in: Cornwall

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PLYMOUTH SWALLOWS SCHOOL OF GYMNASTICS.

• PLYMOUTH SWALLOWS SCHOOL OF GYMNASTICS income £385k
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• NORTH WALSHAM GYMNASTICS CLUB income £258k
• SAPPHIRE SCHOOL OF GYMNASTICS LTD income £849k
• BRIDGEND SWIM CLUB income £123k
• EASTON GYMNASTICS CLUB income £387k

Side by side with its peers

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