ADVENTURE UNDER SAIL

Registered charity 1124276 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ADVENTURE UNDER SAIL LTD, Seas Your Future

To educate young people through the provision of sailing or sailing related activities and other training so as to develop their physical, mental and social capabilities so that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society and their conditions may be improved.

Objects

TO EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SAILING OR SAILING RELATED ACTIVITIES AND OTHER TRAINING AND SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SOCIAL CAPABILITIES SO THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, WEYMOUTH, DORSET.

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

Causes: Education/training · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brentwood, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£1.2m
Latest spending
£1.4m
Registered
2008

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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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 115
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (£60,001–£70,000: 1; £70,001–£80,000: 1)
  • Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2022

  • Volunteers: 115
  • Government income: £5,733 — grants £5,733 (3); under 1% of the £1,119,532 total gross income on the same return
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (£60,001–£70,000: 2)

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2021

  • Volunteers: 94
  • Government income: £75,211 — grants £75,211 (2); 9% of the £804,334 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

2 annual returns are past their due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Total income
£1.2m
Total spending
£1.4m
Cost of raising funds
£73k
Reserves (reported)
£292k
Employees
4

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (66% 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: 6.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Costa Rica · Germany · Ireland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025——
31/03/2024——
31/03/2023£1.2m£1.4m
31/03/2022£1.1m£1.2m
31/03/2021£804k£900k

Common questions

Who funds ADVENTURE UNDER SAIL?

Funders whose own accounts filings name ADVENTURE UNDER SAIL as a grant recipient include THE GOSLING FOUNDATION LIMITED, THE ASSOCIATION OF SAIL TRAINING ORGANISATIONS, THE SHIPWRIGHTS CHARITABLE FUND.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE GOSLING FOUNDATION LIMITEDFY2023£50kYouth
THE ASSOCIATION OF SAIL TRAINING ORGANISATIONSFY2021£50kLifeboat grants
THE ASSOCIATION OF SAIL TRAINING ORGANISATIONSFY2022£50kLifeboat grants
THE ASSOCIATION OF SAIL TRAINING ORGANISATIONSFY2021£12kHI Bursaries
THE SHIPWRIGHTS CHARITABLE FUNDFY2022£2k
THE SHIPWRIGHTS CHARITABLE FUNDFY2021£2kGeneral Charitable Donations - Responsive
THE ASSOCIATION OF SAIL TRAINING ORGANISATIONSFY2025£1kHammond Innes Bursaries
THE ASSOCIATION OF SAIL TRAINING ORGANISATIONSFY2022£1kHammond Innes Bursaries

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Sport England03/06/2020£6kCOVID-19 CEF
The National Lottery Community Fund01/06/2016£10kImprove Your Sea-V.