WATER STARS FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1181730 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity operates within Staffordshire. Water Stars Foundation delivers educational swimming lessons for children to learn to swim. Water Stars Foundation delivers regular water safety courses for children to attend and gain knowledge and skills to stay safe in and around water. We work closely with schools in educational swimming lessons and train teachers in water safety.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECT OF SWIMMING AND WATER SAFETY. CREATING LIFELONG LEARNERS AND PARTICIPANTS.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUPILS OF SANDON PRIMARY ACADEMY, YARLET SCHOOL AND HEMPSTALLS PRIMARY SCHOOL BY PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL SWIMMING LESSONS.TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL WATER SAFETY COURSES FOR CHILDREN IN NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE TO ATTEND. EDUCATING AND INCREASING KNOWLEDGE OF RISKS INVOLVED WITH WATER ACTIVITIES.

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a total turnover of £622,583.54 against total costs of £617,765.05, resulting in an operating profit of £4,818.49 for the year ended 31 December 2024. The trustees report that the charity continues to repay its Bounce Back Loan and aims to build reserves of £150,000 to cover approximately six months of staffing wages.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (100% 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

• Rachel Beckett
• Robert Trimmings

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

Operates in: Staffordshire · Stoke-on-trent City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SWIMTAYKA.

• SWIMTAYKA income £111k
• THE SWIMMING TEACHERS ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £2.6m
• LEVEL WATER income £1.7m
• Star Community Foundation income £300k
• KINGFISHERS SWIMMING CLUB income £125k
• THE ROYAL LIFE SAVING SOCIETY - U.K. income £6.2m

Side by side with its peers

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