LEVEL WATER

Registered charity 1151510 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KEEP PLAYING

We provide one-to-one swimming lessons for children with disabilities, then help them join group lessons and succeed in these. We believe that children with disabilities should not be excluded from sport. Our lessons are a powerful tool to help children with disabilities develop physical skills, become socially included and build self-esteem and resilience.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £53,750 for the year ended 30 September 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year. Despite the deficit, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £789,732, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover winter deficits given the cyclical nature of their income. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RBCA Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from greater than £100,000 (FY2024) to £120,001 - £130,000 (FY2025).

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Level Water (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (59% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Tobias Anthony David Radcliffechair
• David John Candler
• Laura Ellen Mary Batty
• Mark Haslam

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SWIMTAYKA.

• SWIMTAYKA income £111k
• OUT TO SWIM income £366k
• ROMFORD TOWN SWIMMING CLUB income £280k
• WEST LEIGH SWIM SCHOOL LIMITED income £142k
• THE SWIMMING TEACHERS ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £2.6m
• SWIM TORQUAY LIMITED income £481k

Side by side with its peers

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