ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA CANOE CLUB

Registered charity 1189190 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RLSCC

We are a Paddlesport members organisation working in Leamington Spa. We provide access for all abilities and ethnic backgrounds to recreational and competition paddlesport. We coach kayak and canoe in these disciplines and work with local community organisations to ensure access for all.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS:TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES TO PARTICIPATE IN CANOEING, KAYAKING AND PADDLEBOARDS (COMMONLY KNOWN AS PADDLE SPORT).

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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Registered contact address: Warwick, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £171,056, all of which are designated by trustees for specific purposes such as building maintenance, coaching, and racing activities. The trustees report a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, confirming a going concern basis. The charity operates on a receipts and payments basis with no employees and no trustee remuneration.

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 handling
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dawn Mussell
• Emma Jane Miles
• Oliver Charles Barrow
• Thomas David Love
• Thomasina W Lukehurst

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

Operates in: Warwickshire

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 CHELMSFORD CANOE CLUB.

• CHELMSFORD CANOE CLUB income £149k
• ROYAL CANOE CLUB TRUST income £70k
• HOLME PIERREPONT CANOE CLUB income £58k
• LEA ROWING CLUB LIMITED income £528k
• DEVIZES CANOE CLUB income £46k
• ADDLESTONE CANOE CLUB income £33k

Side by side with its peers

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