WEALDEN SAILABILITY

Registered charity 1125286 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BOUGH BEECH SAILABILITY

Providing inshore sailing opportunities for disabled people.

Objects

TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY;1) COACHING, RECREATION, AND, WHERE APPROPRIATE, COMPETITIVE OPPORTUNITIES IN SAILING FOR DISABLED PEOPLE IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND FROM SUCH OTHER AREAS AS MAY BE DETERMINED FROM TIME TO TIME.PROVIDING AN INTRODUCTORY METHODOLOGY WHEREBY DISABLED SAILOR MIGHT BE ACCOMMODATED WITHIN THE NORMAL OPERATIONS OF A SAILING CLUB.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total receipts were £20,546.54 against total payments of £35,268.26, resulting in a net decrease in cash funds. The charity holds unrestricted strategic reserves of £8,000.00 and unrestricted operational funds of £16,335.67, with total cash funds held amounting to £31,019.27.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wealden Sailability (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Vertex Ltd — “Donated to WS by Lee Hawley of Vertex Ltd. following on from our award of Disability Charity of the Year.” (source page)
• West Kent Grand Lodge — “West Kent Grand Lodge and the Masonic Charitable Foundation continues to support WS. This time they have generously agreed to donate 3 sets …” (source page)
• Masonic Charitable Foundation — “West Kent Grand Lodge and the Masonic Charitable Foundation continues to support WS. This time they have generously agreed to donate 3 sets …” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jonathan Robert Butterychair
• CHRISTOPHER SIDNEY WILLIAMS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Johns
• NIGEL LAMB
• Paul Chilvers
• STEVE THOMAS

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

Operates in: Bexley · Bromley · Croydon · East Sussex · Essex · Kent · Lewisham · Medway · Surrey · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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