MEDWAY WATERSPORTS TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1146485 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MEDWAY WATERSPORTS TRUST, MWT

Provision of water sports, including sailing, canoeing and kayaking and other outdoor activities for the local community, and especially schools and youth organisations, through access to the River Medway at The Strand, Gillingham, Kent.

Objects

1. TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.2. TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

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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Registered contact address: Medway, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated total income of £29,561 against total expenditure of £84,414, resulting in a net deficit for the period. The trustees report that the charity was able to cover its monthly core costs, supported by a reserve fund designated to meet future lease costs. The independent examiner noted that the charity's fixed assets were consolidated into a single balance and advised the trustees to compile a more detailed asset register.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Paying staff
• 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

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark Falkinghamchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• JAMES DAVID ROSS
• Ken Shepherd
• Lesley Julie SNOWDON
• Peter Snowdon
• Robert Oakley
• Robert Walker

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

Operates in: Kent · Medway

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHATHAM MARITIME TRUST.

• CHATHAM MARITIME TRUST income £2.1m
• WEY ISLAND TRUST income £31k
• THE CONWAY MERCHANT NAVY TRUST income £132k
• MERSEY RIVERS TRUST income £1.2m
• WYRE RIVER TRUST income £2.1m
• TESTWOOD LAKES SAILABILITY income £28k

Side by side with its peers

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