DIVE ABILITY LIMITED

Registered charity 1143653 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Dive Ability is a member led scuba diving charity committed to enabling people who have disabilities or disadvantages to discover the adventurous world of scuba diving.Achievement is realised through regular, educational pool sessions and diving holidays, with specialist support and equipment being provided so that positive scuba diving experiences are accessible to all.

Objects

1) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR PARTICIPATION IN SCUBA DIVING AND SIMILAR WATER BASED ACTIVITIES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES OR WHO ARE IN NEED DUE TO SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROVISION OF CERTIFIED TRAINING IN SCUBA DIVING.

Area of benefit: REGIONAL

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

Causes: Disability · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £5,665 for the year, increasing its total unrestricted and restricted funds to £125,266. The trustees consider the financial performance satisfactory and report that fundraising efforts have moved the charity towards being self-funding, although they explicitly state there is no reserves policy in place.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07693605

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Dive Ability (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• CLARK, Michelle — director, appointed 01/04/2020on trustee list
• BROWN, Duncan John — director, appointed 05/07/2011on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DUNCAN JOHN BROWN
• Michelle Dawn Clark

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Throughout London

Income and spending

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