WEYMOUTH SAILING CLUB CIO

Registered charity 1178619 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WEYMOUTH SAILING CLUB

The object of the charity is to promote and facilitate community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for sailing to those resident in the local and greater Weymouth area and surrounding regions.Based in Weymouth harbour, we provide tuition and a full programme of racing throughout the season in Club owned and Members dinghies and keelboats.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO PROMOTE AND FACILITATE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR SAILING TO THOSE RESIDENT IN THE LOCAL AND GREATER WEYMOUTH AREA AND SURROUNDING REGIONS.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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 accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £24,296 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total income of £268,013 against total expenditure of £250,717. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds increased to £927,258, and the reserve policy target is currently set at £70k. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Mercer
• James Brodrick
• Mairi Kershaw
• Russell King
• Stephen Homan-Berry

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YORKSHIRE DALES SAILING CLUB.

• YORKSHIRE DALES SAILING CLUB income £128k
• SOUTH CERNEY SAILING CLUB LIMITED income £116k
• THE ISLAND TRUST LIMITED income £273k
• WEYMOUTH SKATEPARK ASSOCIATION income £120k
• WEY KAYAK CLUB income £105k
• CHISWICK ROWING TRUST income £109k

Side by side with its peers

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