CHRISTIAN YOUTH ENTERPRISES SAILING CENTRE

Registered charity 293781 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Water based activities include sailing, kayaking, open canoeing and improvised rafting. We also offer a wide range of land based activities specifically: archery tag, assault course, tunneling, climbing wall and archery.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (“THE OBJECTS”) ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(A)TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF FAITH IN THE SCHEDULE ATTACHED TO THE ARTICLES HERETO AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE;(B)TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED;(C)TO PROVIDE SPORTS FACILITIES INCLUDING BUT NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION THE PROVISION OF SAILING AND ALL ITS ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES AND OTHER OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS WHO WOULD NOT OTHERWISE HAVE ACCESS TO SUCH FACILITIES;

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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

Registered contact address: Chichester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted cash reserves stood at £140,000, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover three months of management and administration costs. The charity reported a net surplus of £23,457 for the 15-month period ended 31 March 2025, supported by total income of £1,299,123. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Ltd. 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 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
• 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
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark Sheldrake — Centre Director (source)
• Debbie Uren — General Manager (source)
• Becky Hard — Operations Manager (source)
• Tobi Stathers — Fundraising and Engagement Manager (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher James Adams
• Dr Richard Irving Walker · trustee of 2 other charities
• Elizabeth Slinn
• NIGEL IEUAN REES · trustee of 3 other charities
• NORMAN EDWARD NOBLE DONEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Naomi Day · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Surrey · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CARDIGAN BAY WATERSPORTS.

• CARDIGAN BAY WATERSPORTS income £64k
• BRADFORD UNIT 50 OF THE SEA CADET CORPS income £36k
• OULTON BROAD WATER SPORTS CENTRE income £89k
• LEISURE FOCUS TRUST income £1.2m
• MIKE THURSTON WATER ACTIVITIES CENTRE income £30k
• SOUTH CERNEY SAILING CLUB LIMITED income £116k

Side by side with its peers

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