WAVE ACTIVE LIMITED
Registered charity 1113486 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WAVE LEISURE TRUST LIMITED
Provider of Sports, Leisure and Recreational services and facilities primarily for, but not restricted to the communities within Lewes District and Eastbourne Borough.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity generated a net profit of £1,089,261 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £8,066,607 exceeding expenditure of £6,941,000. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £2,134,020, which is above the stated policy target of £1.5 million, and the charity holds significant cash balances and investment assets.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: three months expenditure cover (held: £2.1m)
“The Trustees have assessed that the target free reserves of the Charity should be £1.5million, which is based on three months expenditure cover.” — page 12
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by McCabe Ford Williams. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Corporate structure
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.
- KEENAN, Dominic John Cameron — director, appointed 11/05/2026not on trustee list
- GOLF-PAPEZ, Maja, Dr — director, appointed 17/11/2025on trustee list
- KEENAN, Charlotte Louise, Cllr — director, appointed 05/02/2024on trustee list
- HARWOOD-SMITH, Catherine — director, appointed 05/06/2023on trustee list
- KIHLSTROM, Eric William — director, appointed 04/04/2022on trustee list
- O'CONNOR, Laurence, Cllr — director, appointed 24/07/2020on trustee list
- ELLIS, Kevin David — director, appointed 31/07/2018on trustee list
- MILLER, Marcel Philippe — director, appointed 22/02/2018on trustee list
- POLLARD, Deborah Joy — secretary, appointed 24/04/2018
Official officers record.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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).
- ERIC KIHLSTROMchair
- Catherine Harwood-Smith
- Charlotte Keenan
- Cllr Laurence O'Connor · trustee of 1 other charity
- Dr Maja Golf-Papez
- KEVIN DAVID ELLIS
- Marcel Philippe Miller
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: East Sussex
Income and spending
Common questions
Is WAVE ACTIVE LIMITED financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a net profit of £1,089,261 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £8,066,607 exceeding expenditure of £6,941,000. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £2,134,020, which is above the stated policy target of £1.5 million, and the charity holds significant cash balances and investment assets. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by McCabe Ford Williams.
Government & lottery funding
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