EAST AND WEST LOOE HARBOUR AND BRIDGE CHARITIES

Registered charity 291498 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LOOE HARBOUR COMMISSIONERS

The Maintenance and Improvement of the Harbour at Looe, thus promoting the trade of the town and adjacent towns and districts.

Objects

TO MAINTAIN AND IMPROVE THE HARBOUR OF LOOE.

Area of benefit: LOOE HARBOUR

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 holds total reserves of £6,879,115, comprising £4,449,347 in unrestricted funds and £2,429,768 in restricted funds. The trustees report a net income of £1,528,970 against net expenditure of £1,103,873, resulting in a positive net movement in funds of £425,097 for the year.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Walter Hunter & Co Limited. Discloses 3 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Tina Annie Hicks — Chief Executive (source)
• Tina Annie Hicks — Harbour Master (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 18/05/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~48.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (79% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR DAVID BONDchair
• ARMAND JEAN TOMS · trustee of 3 other charities
• Albert Gerald Penhaligon
• Angela Caroline Harrison
• DAVID PEAT
• JOSEPH BUSSELL
• MEGAN WILLIAMS
• MICHAEL DARLINGTON
• MICHAEL JOHN PENGELLY
• WILLIAM MARTIN

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

Operates in: Cornwall

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE EAST LOOE TOWN TRUST.

• THE EAST LOOE TOWN TRUST income £569k
• WEST LOOE TOWN TRUST income £308k
• PERRANPORTH GARDENS CHARITIES income £499k
• LEWES OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL TRUST income £11.2m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF RYE WITH RYE HARBOUR income £313k
• Hope Church Truro income £134k

Side by side with its peers

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