SWANSEA COMMUNITY BOAT TRUST

Registered charity 1105536 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SWANSEA COMMUNITY BOAT

To operate a community boat on the River Tawe navigation for the benefit of those in need by reason of their youth, old age, vulnerability, disablement or who are otherwise in need and by such other ways as the Charity may decide.To advance the education of young people and others in regard to the inland waterways of Swansea & Neath Port Talbot, their heritage, their uses and environment.

Objects

1) FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE LIVING OR WORKING IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SWANSEA, NEATH PARK TALBOT COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCIL, AND SURROUNDING AREAS BY RELIEVING THE DISTRESS AND HARDSHIP OF THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, OLD AGE, VULNERABILITY, DISABLEMENT OR WHO ARE OTHERWISE IN NEED BY PROVIDING ON OR MORE CANAL BOATS FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH PERSONS AND BY SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE CHARITY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.2) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND OTHER IN REGARD TO THE INLAND WATERWAYS OF SWANSEA, NEATH PORT TALBOT AND SURROUNDING AREAS, THEIR HISTORY, THEIR USES AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT

Area of benefit: SWANSEA, NEATH PORT TALBOT.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Swansea, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a profit of £27,359 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £104,910. Net assets increased to £156,691, supported by cash reserves of £129,616. The filing notes that the company was entitled to exemption from audit under the small companies regime.

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

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05182266

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.

• CLAYTON, Mark Stephen — director, appointed 02/11/2023on trustee list
• HUGHES, Diane — director, appointed 10/11/2022on trustee list
• WHALLEY, Mark Alan — director, appointed 12/11/2021on trustee list
• LEWIS, David Anthony — director, appointed 26/11/2019on trustee list
• DAVIES, Elaine — director, appointed 18/10/2018on trustee list
• BROPHY, Anthony Gary — director, appointed 18/10/2018on trustee list
• GOODWIN, Roger John — director, appointed 18/10/2018on trustee list
• BACON, Nicholas Robert — director, appointed 07/07/2011on trustee list
• BACON, Nicholas Robert — secretary, appointed 12/11/2021

Official officers record.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• MARK WHALLEYchair
• David Anthony Lewis
• Diane Hughes
• Elaine Davies
• Gary Brophy
• JOHN ANDREW DAVIES
• Mark Stephen Clayton
• NICHOLAS BACON
• Roger John Goodwin

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

Operates in: City Of Swansea · Neath Port Talbot

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY LIVES CONSORTIUM.

• COMMUNITY LIVES CONSORTIUM income £16.6m
• THE SWANSEA BAY FOUNDATION income £65k
• THE WHEELYBOAT TRUST income £209k
• RIVER THAMES BOAT PROJECT income £207k
• CITIZENS ADVICE SWANSEA NEATH PORT TALBOT LIMITED income £2.1m
• NOTTINGHAM NARROW BOAT PROJECT LTD income £60k

Side by side with its peers

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