TEAMIPSWICH SWIMMING

Registered charity 1156933 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote community participation in a healthy recreation to residents of Ipswich and the surrounding area, by providing teaching, development and practice from learn to swim skills to competitive swimming and disability swimming in a cost effective method affordable for all families;

Objects

3.1 The objects of the CIO are:(a) The promotion of community participation in healthy recreation, primarily but not exclusively, for the benefit of the inhabitants of Ipswich and the surrounding areas by the provision of teaching / development / competitive swimming and associated activities

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £84,232, up from £56,855 in the prior year, following a net income of £29,323. The trustees report that the club's financial health remains strong despite challenges with an accounting system transition. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £84,232 against a stated target range of £120,000 to £240,000 based on an annual operating budget of approximately £240,000.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — TeamIpswich Swimming UK (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Samantha Garnhamchair
• Alistair Porter
• Jessica Bryan
• Joanne Armstrong
• Ross William John Wilson

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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