POOLE SAILABILITY

Registered charity 1166542 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide and assist in the provision of water-based activities in Poole Harbour and the surrounding area for people with disabilities, in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving the condition of their lives.

Objects

TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF WATER-BASED ACTIVITIES IN POOLE HARBOUR AND THE SURROUNDING AREA FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF THEIR 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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Registered contact address: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Poole Sailability held unrestricted reserves of £33,560 at the end of the financial year, which the Trustees consider adequate to cover unexpected operational costs and build asset replacement provisions. The charity reported a net surplus of £2,276 for the period, with total receipts of £30,098 against total payments of £33,277, resulting in a slight overall deficit before transfers. 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 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
• 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
• 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/03/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Clifford Howarth
• Dawn Geer
• Nicholas Berendt
• Robert Julian Stone
• Stephen Brian Town · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Dorset · Hampshire · Poole

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PETERBOROUGH SAILABILITY LIMITED.

• PETERBOROUGH SAILABILITY LIMITED income £45k
• RUTLAND SAILABILITY income £263k
• WEALDEN SAILABILITY income £43k
• BLACKWELL SAILING income £97k
• TESTWOOD LAKES SAILABILITY income £28k
• POOLE COMMUNITIES TRUST income £333k

Side by side with its peers

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