CITY OF COVENTRY SWIMMING CLUB

Registered charity 1175684 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The activities of the charity is the promotion of community participation in healthy recreation, primarily but notexclusively, for the benefit of the inhabitants living in Coventry and the surrounding area by the provision of facilitiesfor swimming, water polo and Para swimming.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS LIVING IN COVENTRY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR SWIMMING, WATER POLO AND PARA SWIMMING.

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: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £20,324 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total income of £610,698 and total expenditure of £631,022. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, holding unrestricted reserves of £249,316 which exceed their stated policy target of £200,000.

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 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (84% 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

• Damian Randell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hayley Ward
• Lee Whitbread
• Lorraine Chamberlain
• Mark Crow
• Nick Sellwood
• Warren Offer · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Coventry City · Leicestershire · Warwickshire · Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Winchester City Swimming Club.

• Winchester City Swimming Club income £864k
• COVENTRY AND NORTH WARWICKSHIRE SPORTS CLUB income £240k
• EXETER CITY SWIMMING CLUB income £514k
• HAVANT & WATERLOOVILLE SWIMMING CLUB income £236k
• WYCOMBE DISTRICT SWIMMING CLUB income £1.0m
• MILDENHALL & DISTRICT SWIMMING CLUB income £67k

Side by side with its peers

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