CARNFORTH COMMUNITY SWIMMING POOL LTD

Registered charity 1176769 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To operate Carnforth Community Swimming Pool for the benefit of all members of the public to include in particular, promoting the leisure, health and safety benefits of swimming for all ages and especially teaching young persons to swim.

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF CARNFORTH AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR LEISURE FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR SWIMMING AND OTHER FITNESS AND WELLBEING 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 · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lancaster, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained a sound financial position with total funds increasing to £332,331 and unrestricted reserves well above the stated policy target of £20,000. The trustees consider the financial position strong, supported by increased cash balances and continued investment in facilities such as solar panels.

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 21/03/2024, 142 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Carnforth Community Swimming Pool (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Government — “Financial support with Government grants, Carnforth Town Council, Carnforth Rotary and other fundraising gas kept the Pool financially stabl…” (source page)
• Carnforth Town Council — “Financial support with Government grants, Carnforth Town Council, Carnforth Rotary and other fundraising gas kept the Pool financially stabl…” (source page)
• Carnforth Rotary — “Financial support with Government grants, Carnforth Town Council, Carnforth Rotary and other fundraising gas kept the Pool financially stabl…” (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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• David James Downes
• JOHN BLOWES MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Maurice Grisenthwaite
• Phillippa Williamson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PAULTON COMMUNITY POOL.

• PAULTON COMMUNITY POOL income £323k
• TENBURY COMMUNITY POOL income £161k
• CITY OF COVENTRY SWIMMING CLUB income £611k
• BOURNE OUTDOOR SWIMMING POOL income £136k
• SHERE SWIMMING POOL CLUB income £64k
• BROOMFIELD PARK SWIMMING AND RECREATIONAL CLUB LIMITED income £148k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.