EBCHESTER BOATHOUSE PARTNERSHIP

Registered charity 1177129 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides facilities for healthy recreation and education particularly but not exclusively for water-based activity

Objects

TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF EBCHESTER AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION AND EDUCATION IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR WATER BASED ACTIVITY AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID RESIDENTS

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: County Durham, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£74k

Latest spending

£22k

Registered

2018

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £51,595 for the year, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £56,158. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting approximately twelve months of running costs, set at £600 for the current year. The primary financial focus remains on building sufficient reserves to finance the construction of new facilities.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: approximately twelve months’ running costs (this year set at £600) (reserves figure: £56k)

“The only need for reserves at present is to cover essential running costs and emergency expenditure for which the trustees consider it prudent to maintain a general reserve representing approximately twelve months’ running costs (this year set at £600).” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 1

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 1

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

Funders the charity credits

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

EDF Boundary Lane Windfarm Community Fund — “Thanks to funding from the EDF Boundary Lane Windfarm Community Fund,. managed by the County Durham Community Foundation, we now have a new …” (source page)
County Durham Community Foundation — “Thanks to funding from the EDF Boundary Lane Windfarm Community Fund,. managed by the County Durham Community Foundation, we now have a new …” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

IAIN ALEXANDER KNOXchair · trustee of 2 other charities
GEOFFREY MARSHALL · trustee of 4 other charities
John Charles Johnson

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

Operates in: Durham · Gateshead · Northumberland

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£74k	£22k
31/12/2024	£0	£206
31/12/2023	£5k	£288
31/12/2022	£0	£0
31/12/2021	£0	£0

Common questions

Is EBCHESTER BOATHOUSE PARTNERSHIP financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity reported a surplus of £51,595 for the year, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £56,158. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting approximately twelve months of running costs, set at £600 for the current year. The primary financial focus remains on building sufficient reserves to finance the construction of new facilities. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
E B M CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£104k
THE LIZ AND TERRY BRAMALL FOUNDATION	1	£50k
THE CAMELIA BOTNAR FOUNDATION	1	£20k
THE JOHN R. MURRAY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£20k
ST OLAVE'S & ST SAVIOUR'S SCHOOLS FOUNDATION CIO	1	£13k
FRIENDS OF PERSHORE HOSPITAL	1	£13k
JOHNNIE JOHNSON TRUST	1	£13k
JOAN AINSLIE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£11k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EAST MANCHESTER COMMUNITY BOAT PROJECT.

EAST MANCHESTER COMMUNITY BOAT PROJECT income £30k
ISLINGTON BOAT CLUB income £190k
SOLIHULL HEALTH & EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP income £364k
THE PERSHORE RIVERSIDE CENTRE income £160k
WHITLINGHAM BOATHOUSES FOUNDATION LTD income £101k
Derwentside and Gateshead swim team income £243k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
EBCHESTER BOATHOUSE PARTNERSHIP	£74k	—	above	—	no doubt
EAST MANCHESTER COMMUNITY BOAT PROJECT FY2025	£30k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ISLINGTON BOAT CLUB FY2025	£190k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
SOLIHULL HEALTH & EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP FY2025	£364k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PERSHORE RIVERSIDE CENTRE FY2025	£160k	—	above	—	no doubt
WHITLINGHAM BOATHOUSES FOUNDATION LTD FY2025	£101k	—	below	—	no doubt

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