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.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE:COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISIONS OF FACILITIES FOR PLAYING SPORT ("FACILITIES" MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES)PHYSICAL EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE; ANDTHE HEALTH OF DISABLED PEOPLE PARTICULARLY BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION BY CREATING OR ASSISTING IN CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SPORT

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 · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

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.

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
• 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)

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 30/09/2025 (received 31/07/2026, 1 day after the 30/07/2026 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.

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 4.7 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 (5.3%) (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

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WEST LEIGH SWIM SCHOOL LIMITED.

• WEST LEIGH SWIM SCHOOL LIMITED income £142k
• Children's Alliance income £423k
• LEVEL TRUST income £381k
• THE WATERSIDE CENTRE, KINGS LANGLEY income £378k
• ROMFORD TOWN SWIMMING CLUB income £280k
• CHILDREN'S SAILING TRUST income £490k

Side by side with its peers

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