Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +1
Overall GiG Score: 5 ?

ROYAL CANOE CLUB TRUST 

The advancement of amateur sport, specifically watersports including; canoeing, skiffing, rowing and dragon boating. The charity has focused on making enhanced provision of facilities for children and young people and disadvantaged groups
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/22£116£109£7n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/12/21*£117£71£46n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/12/20£107£51£55n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/12/19£58£49£9n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/12/18*£58£49£9£0£0£0n/a020
31/12/17£75£28£47£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£34£36£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£42£33£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£34£22£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£30£31£0£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£33£31£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£34£24£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£33£24£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£130£30£101£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£139£439£-300£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07£88£134£-46£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/06£131£43£88£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/05£49£74£-25£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£106£37£69£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 29 years

davidlawrence.tamarisk@gmail.com

02089775269

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
GiG Classification
  • Sports activities
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£10,000 08/09/2021
5
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project lists its main activity as Canoeing

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 34-86
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 30/06/1995, number: 1047632
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/09/1993, number: 02857013
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Risk management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR21: 3 days late, AR18: 186 days late,
Main office

THE CLUBHOUSE
TROWLOCK ISLAND
TEDDINGTON
MIDDLESEX
TW11 9QZ

Objectives

THE ORGANISATION AND PROVISION (EITHER ALONE OR IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER BODIES CHARITABLE OR OTHERWISE) OF FACILITIES FOR WATER RELATED AND OTHER PHYSICAL RECREATION AT THE ROYAL CANOE CLUB AND THE SKIFF CLUB, LONDON (AND/OR ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH AND/OR SOCIAL AND/OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON AND/OR ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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