FORMBY POOL TRUST

Registered charity 1099941 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of swimming pool, fitness and ancillary facilities for the use of inhabitants and visitors of Formby and the surrounding area in the interests of social welfare and health.

Objects

TO PROVIDE A SWIMMING POOL AND TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF OTHER FACILITIES AND SERVICES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE COMMUNITY AND VISITORS OF FORMBY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: FORMBY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £77,501 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £232,056. The trustees and auditors confirm that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified regarding the charity's ability to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Advance Audit Limited. 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
• Paying staff
• 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
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Dympna Edwardschair · trustee of 2 other charities
• CATHERINE MARY PAGE
• Christine Howard
• DAVID WILSON
• Graham Sidlow
• Heather Gail Davies
• James Connor Scorgie
• Mark Snaylam
• Pauline Adams
• Sharon Suzanne Crean · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Sefton

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TADCASTER SWIMMING POOL TRUST.

• TADCASTER SWIMMING POOL TRUST income £1.3m
• BLACKPOOL FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £3.3m
• CARNFORTH COMMUNITY SWIMMING POOL LTD income £348k
• LUNE VALLEY COMMUNITY SOCIETY LTD income £192k
• FAVERSHAM SWIMMING POOLS MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE LTD income £1.5m
• THE WRAGBY AND DISTRICT SWIMMING CLUB income £193k

Side by side with its peers

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