EXERCISING FOR MOBILITY

Registered charity 1135054 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Exercising for Mobility's aims are to provide fun and affordable Chair-Based Fitness Sessions for everyone, but especially for people with physical or mental health issues of any kind, and also to provide varied social opportunities for its Members at a time when many elderly people feel lonely and isolated.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BUDE AND SURROUNDING AREAS, THE ADVANCEMENT OF GOOD HEALTH AND THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF CHAIR-BASED FITNESS SESSIONS AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE, BUT WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS FOR THOSE WITH PHYSICAL OR MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, INCLUDING DEGENERATIVE DISORDERS SUCH AS PARKINSON?S OR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, OR OTHER LIMITED MOBILITY.

Area of benefit: BUDE AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cornwall, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a financial deficit of £13,613 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total receipts of £31,396 against payments of £45,009. Despite this deficit, the charity held unrestricted reserves of £60,615, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of around £45,000. The primary sources of income were donations and grant funding, while the largest expenditure category was wages.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Funders the charity credits

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

• Bude-Stratton Town Council — “Our Supporters Bude-Stratton Town Council” (source page)
• Cornwall Community Foundation — “Cornwall Community Foundation In 1998 a group of far-sighted people identified the need to give those struggling in the community a voice …” (source page)
• The Garfield Weston Foundation — “The Garfield Weston Foundation is a family founded grant-maker that gives money to support a wide range of charities across the UK.” (source page)
• National Lottery Awards for All — “That’s why National Lottery Awards for All supports amazing community-led projects like Exercising for Mobility, which offers social opportu…” (source page)
• The Bank at Bude — “The Bank at Bude, your friendly resident Tapas Bar, nestled in the heart of Bude Marshes at Pethericks Mill, is delighted and honoured to sp…” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gabrielle Barlingchair
• Alan Geoffrey North
• Annette North
• Brian James Dixon
• Carolyn Margaret Head
• Joyce Bickerstaff
• Lynda Anne Powell
• Stephen Charles Jewell

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

Operates in: Cornwall

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HAVERING SHOPMOBILITY ASSOCIATION.

• HAVERING SHOPMOBILITY ASSOCIATION income £47k
• MEADOWS SHOPMOBILITY income £57k
• MAKE A MOVE income £55k
• Outdoor Mobility income £151k
• DRIVING MOBILITY income £2.0m
• THE SOCIAL MOBILITY FOUNDATION income £3.3m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.