LEA ROWING CLUB LIMITED

Registered charity 1157563 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEA ROWING CLUB

Promoting community participation in healthy recreation by the provision of facilities for rowing, sculling and other sports, for such persons who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving their conditions of life.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:1)THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR ROWING, SCULLING AND OTHER SPORTS (‘FACILITIES’ MEANS LAND, BUILDING, EQUIPMENT, AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES)2)PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR SPORT, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £422,759, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain operations during funding drops, aligning with their policy of holding three to six months of expenditure. The accounts were subject to independent examination rather than audit, with the examiner reporting no matters requiring attention. The charity operates a wholly-owned trading subsidiary, Lea Events Limited, to support fundraising through its facilities.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Sport England — “Our financial benefactors include: Sport England” (source page)
• Youth Experience in Sport — “Youth Experience in Sport , run by former Lea R.C. president Tony Mallin, MBE, is the club’s biggest donor, and continues to help us with fi…” (source page)
• The Colgan Foundation — “The Colgan Foundation , run by Sean P. Colgan, supports junior rowing all over world, particularly those that wouldn't without help become i…” (source page)
• The Jack Petchey Foundation — “The Jack Petchey Foundation has made numerous contributions to boats and equipment over the years.” (source page)
• The Rowing Foundation — “The Rowing Foundation provided us with eight sets of sculling blades for our junior rowers in 2019.” (source page)
• Sportivate — “Sportivate (a London Sport initiative) has funded the current junior coaches coaching programme, and make the main contribution for state sc…” (source page)
• British Rowing Eastern Region — “British Rowing Eastern Region who have provided Level 2 coaching grants.” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (47% 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

• David James Porterchair
• Antoinette Jucker
• Caroline Ruth Carson
• Charles Barry
• DONALD RICHARD NIVISON ELLIS
• Daniil Slavin
• Kate Elizabeth Gerrand
• Meta Angelina Versluijs
• Teresa Kwiecinska

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

Operates in: Hackney

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 CHISWICK ROWING TRUST.

• CHISWICK ROWING TRUST income £109k
• POPLAR BLACKWALL & DISTRICT ROWING CLUB income £118k
• BRITISH ROWING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £235k
• THE AHOY CENTRE income £549k
• KESWICK COMMUNITY RUGBY TRUST LIMITED income £330k
• READING FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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