PHOENIX CANOE CLUB LIMITED

Registered charity 1148787 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PHOENIX OUTDOOR CENTRE

PROVISION OF WATER SPORTS AND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF INHABITANTS OF GREATER LONDON AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS, BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR KAYAKING, CANOEING AND OTHER OUTDOOR SPORTS.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Barnet, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £17,839 in 2025, restoring its net assets to £98,248 after a deficit in the previous year. However, the trustees note that general reserves of £51,098 remain below the policy target of £60,000–£70,000, requiring careful monitoring of income and expenditure in 2026. The charity remains dependent on grant funding, such as from John Lyon’s Charity, to support staff costs and rebuild its free reserves.

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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 10/02/2023, 102 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08002910

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.

• LAWRENCE, Darren, Mr. — director, appointed 09/03/2026on trustee list
• CHIDLOW, Megan Ruth — director, appointed 05/08/2020on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Frances Jeanne — director, appointed 25/02/2020on trustee list
• GORDON, Amanda — director, appointed 25/02/2020on trustee list
• MOORE, Andrew Victor James — director, appointed 01/04/2016on trustee list
• BAK OLESEN, Dittany — director, appointed 01/04/2014not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Gordon
• Andrew Victor James Moore
• DITTANY BAK OLESEN
• Darren Lawrence
• Frances Jeanne Edwards
• Megan Ruth Chidlow

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

Operates in: Barnet · Brent · Camden · Haringey · Harrow

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 DEVIZES CANOE CLUB.

• DEVIZES CANOE CLUB income £46k
• WHITLEY BAY SPORTING CLUB income £297k
• ROYAL CANOE CLUB TRUST income £70k
• PHOENIX GYMNASTICS income £365k
• THE PONTARDAWE ARENA income £60k
• PIRATE FITNESS CIO income £168k

Side by side with its peers

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