Winchester City Swimming Club

Registered charity 1153439 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WCPSC, WINCHESTER CITY PENGUINS SWIMMING CLUB

To operate as an aquatics club that provides facilities for and promotes the participation of thecommunity in competitive swimming and other related activities and encourages the teaching,development and practice of these activities without discrimination and regardless of sex, ethnicorigin, religion, age, disability or political persuasion.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE PARTICIPATION OF THE COMMUNITY IN COMPETITIVE SWIMMING AND OTHER RELATED ACTIVITIES BY THE TEACHING, DEVELOPMENT AND PRACTICE OF THESE ACTIVITIES

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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: Eastleigh, 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 £28,101 for the year ended 31 August 2025, primarily due to a loss of approximately £90,000 in lesson income caused by a prolonged pool closure. Despite this deficit, the charity maintained unrestricted reserves of £198,790, which the trustees noted were just below their policy target of three months' operating expenditure. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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 5 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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SUSAN FALCONERchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Darren Whitt · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Lynch
• Jim Bellinger
• Lucy Hutchin
• Michael Fowkes

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• SUSAN FALCONER — trustee here and at THE FALCONER FAMILY TRUST

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EXETER CITY SWIMMING CLUB.

• EXETER CITY SWIMMING CLUB income £514k
• CITY OF COVENTRY SWIMMING CLUB income £611k
• GUILDFORD CITY SWIMMING CLUB income £1.4m
• FAREHAM NOMADS SWIMMING CLUB income £234k
• HAVANT & WATERLOOVILLE SWIMMING CLUB income £236k
• TADCASTER SWIMMING POOL TRUST income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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