Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 8
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

THE ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB CHARITABLE TRUST 

Supporting young and/or disadvantaged people to participate in maritime and education related activities, and from time to time support appropriate disaster relief to coastal communities affected by maritime disasters.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 19 years

charity@royalthames.com

01983760979

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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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£7£13£-6n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/21£28£5£23n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/12/20£20£13£7n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/12/19£6£25£-19n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/12/18£13£24£-11£0£0£0n/a04
31/12/17£10£17£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£27£22£5£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£35£25£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£21£20£1£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13?£6£18£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£6£9£-4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£31£13£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£11£4£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£16£7£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£9£2£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£28£21£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£63£40£23£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides other finance
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • 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
Barrow Cadbury Trust - Changing the narrative about EU citizens 2023-25.
£50,000 07/09/2023
To continue to support the3million's communications work 2023-2025
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to the3million
£10,133 27/02/2023
Towards core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Greater London Authority - Citizen Led Engagement Programme
£11,830 26/03/2019
Citizen-Led is a peer research project designed to enhance engagement with communities whose voice and influence over public policy has previously been unheard. 

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 02/03/2005, number: 1108385
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
There are no Policies registered with the Charities Commission
Filing Record
17 returns made; all on time
Main office

WELLOW HOUSE
MAIN ROAD
WELLOW
YARMOUTH
PO41 0SZ

Objectives

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST AT THEIR SOLE AND ABSOLUTE DISCRETION TO APPLY THE INCOME AND ALL OF SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES AT THEIR SOLE AND ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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