EXETER CITY SWIMMING CLUB

Registered charity 1112308 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide opportunities to swim and through regular training and competition for swimmers to achieve their personal goals. Our Club is Dedicated to Achievement.

Objects

The charity’s objects are the promotion of community participation in healthy recreation, primarily but not exclusively, for the benefit of the inhabitants of Exeter and the surrounding areas by the provision of facilities for the teaching, development and practice of swimming for its members , encompassing learning to swim through to International competition within a performance framework.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE: LOCALLY IN DEVON.

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 reported a deficit of expenditure over income of £8,126 for the year ended 30 September 2025. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at a deficit of £7,277, which is below the charity's stated policy target of maintaining reserves equivalent to three to six months of expenditure. The trustees note that squad fee increases and additional fundraising galas have been undertaken to rectify the situation.

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.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cleofe Louise Board · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Andrew Wayland · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Martin Walters · trustee of 1 other charity
• KATE LOUISE VAIN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Louis Alexander Joyce

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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