WALLINGFORD ACCESSIBLE BOAT CLUB

Registered charity 1179179 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Wallingford Accessible Boat Club is a community oriented organisation which aims to enable disabled people - wheelchair and ambulant - out and about on the River Thames in the Wallingford district. It is a wholly voluntary operation and its activities revolve around a wheelyboat - a flat-bottomed craft with drop-down bow - that allows users to embark and disembark the boat simply and safely.

Objects

TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, THEIR FAMILIES AND SUPPORTERS WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE BY PROVIDING WATER-BORNE LEISURE AND RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES IN AND AROUND THE COMMUNITY OF WALLINGFORD AND THE WIDER DISTRICT (OX10 AND ADJACENT DISTRICTS).

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: South Oxfordshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income of £49,727.33 was received against total payments of £34,737.08, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £74,563.58, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain financial sustainability in the short to medium term.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Jenkins MBEchair
• Andrew Risk
• Catherine Jane Haigh
• DEBORAH ANNE WHELAN
• Martin Woolley
• Philip Arthur Jones

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

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 THE WHEELYBOAT TRUST.

• THE WHEELYBOAT TRUST income £209k
• Accessible Boating Thames income £86k
• ACCESSIBLE BOATING ASSOCIATION income £45k
• DART SAILABILITY GROUP income £32k
• RIVERTIME BOAT TRUST LIMITED income £46k
• CARSINGTON SAILABILITY TRUST income £31k

Side by side with its peers

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