CASTAWAY-GOOLE LTD
Registered charity 1129614 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CASTAWAY
Castaway-Goole provides music theatre opportunities for adults and young people with learning and physical disabilities in Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire and the surrounding rural areas. Castaway currently runs two performing music theatre groups, twelve weekly workshop groups in music theatre skills and community and social activities for members.
Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £20,505 for the year ended 31 July 2025, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £64,240 to £43,735. Per the trustees' report, the charity aims to retain three months of running costs in its unrestricted general fund as a financial buffer. The current unrestricted reserves of £25,237 are below the stated policy target of three months' running costs.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: three months running costs in the unrestricted general fund (held: £44k)
“It is the aim of the Executive Committee to retain three months running costs in the unrestricted general fund” — page 10
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Castaway Goole Ltd (matched by registered charity number).
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: East Riding Of Yorkshire · North Yorkshire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is CASTAWAY-GOOLE LTD financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £20,505 for the year ended 31 July 2025, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £64,240 to £43,735. Per the trustees' report, the charity aims to retain three months of running costs in its unrestricted general fund as a financial buffer. The current unrestricted reserves of £25,237 are below the stated policy target of three months' running costs. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
Who funds CASTAWAY-GOOLE LTD?
Funders whose own accounts filings name CASTAWAY-GOOLE LTD as a grant recipient include THE HULL AND EAST RIDING CHARITABLE TRUST, HEY SMILE FOUNDATION, EAST RIDING VOLUNTARY ACTION SERVICES (ERVAS) LIMITED.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Government & lottery funding
Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).
Funders of similar charities
Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.
Charities like this
Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WATERS EDGE ARTS LTD.
Side by side with its peers
Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.