HACKNEY ANACONDA

Registered charity 1208409 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Anaconda SC, Anaconda Swim School, Anaconda Swimming Club, HACKNEY AQUATICS CLUB, Hackney Aquatics Club, London Legacy Swimming

We are an inclusive, enjoyable, community sports club, enabling hundreds of Londoners to participate in aquatics. We enable people to improve their health, acquire skills and build confidence both in and outside the water be that for fitness, friendship or to compete at various levels including local all the way up to national and beyond.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF HACKNEY AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS BY THE PROVISION OF TEACHING, DEVELOPMENT AND COMPETITIVE SWIMMING AND ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES AND OPEN WATER SWIMMING.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £46,858 for the period, primarily due to operational difficulties at Beacon pool which reduced income. Per the trustees' report, general reserves of £88,032 are below the stated policy target of approximately £235,000, though the trustees project future surpluses to replenish reserves.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hackney Anaconda (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Robertschair
• Bansi Kotecha
• Edward Maurice Otto
• Jonathan Calver
• Jonathan Ian Kernkraut
• Sandra Capelan Vazquez · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Hargreaves

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

Operates in: Camden · City Of London · Hackney · Islington · Newham · Tower Hamlets

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON BOROUGH OF HOUNSLOW SWIMMING CLUB.

• LONDON BOROUGH OF HOUNSLOW SWIMMING CLUB income £242k
• HACKNEY TENNIS income £806k
• FAREHAM NOMADS SWIMMING CLUB income £234k
• HACKNEY CITY FARM LIMITED income £507k
• HACKNEY EMPIRE LIMITED income £3.4m
• HACKNEY RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED income £153k

Side by side with its peers

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