SHROPSHIRE SAILING CLUB

Registered charity 1134892 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity provides community involvement in healthy recreation - dinghy sailing, advances the physical education of all by providing equipment and facilities and educating the public about the sustainable recreational use of the Mere. The charity aims to provide these facilities at a low cost and tto some groups free of charge.

Objects

52. OBJECTIVES. THE CHARITY'S OBJECTIVES (THE OBJECTIVES), BEING PRIMARILY ADVANCED IN NORTH SHROPSHIRE ARE 521 THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVISION OF FACILITIESFOR SAILING, IN PARTICULAR DINGHY SAILING52 2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE BY PROVIDING ANDASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF COACHING, EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES FOR SAILING52 3 TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE SUSTAINABLE RECREATIONAL USE OF WETLAND SITES, INPARTICULAR WHITEMERE, AND THE ECOLOGICAL CHARACTER AND ECOSYSTEMS OF WETLANDS.IN THIS CLAUSE 'SUSTAINABLE RECREATIONAL USE' MEANS THE LONG TERM USE OF THE WETLAND FOR SPORTAND OTHER LEISURE ACTIVITIES WITHOUT DEGRADING ITS ENVIRONMENTAL STATUS AS SITE OF SPECIALSCIENTIFIC INTEREST AND A RAMSAR WETLAND

Area of benefit: NORTH SHROPSHIRE

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 incurred an overall excess of expenditure over income of £5,691 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves from £328,104 to £322,413. The trustees consider the reserves adequate to ensure ongoing activity and plan to build up reserves for future projects. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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 4 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Roger Stephen Ridgerschair
• Alison Jane Louise Eady
• Anna Nankervis
• Christopher Charles Trump
• Colin Arnold Smith
• IAN JOHNSON
• Ian Thomas William Norris

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Shropshire · Wrexham

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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