Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 6
  • Qualified accounts: -3
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

ALL-ABOARD! WATER SPORT AND WATER RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY (BRISTOL)

The charity provides the equipment, facilities and personnel to enable disabled, underprivileged people in Bristol and adjoining post code areas, to participate in various forms of water sports and water recreational activities. It also provides the opportunity for the community in general to take part in water sport activity for the purpose of their health and welfare.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • The latest accounts were qualified
  • 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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
?31/12/23£327£273£55n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£294£249£45n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£301£244£57n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£218£213£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£253£318£-65n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18?£261£289£-28n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/17£243£232£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/16*£230£194£36n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/15*£276£223£53n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/14£296£156£140n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 12 years

www.allaboardwatersports.co.uk

admin@allaboardwatersports.co.uk

01179290801

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • Recreation
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bath And North East Somerset, Bristol City, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
Garfield Weston Foundation£43,000
Quartet Community Foundation£41,422
Henry Smith Charity£20,000
Sport England£8,040
National Lottery Community Fund£7,800
The Clothworkers Foundation£6,900
True Colours Trust£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£23,000 07/08/2023
Expand fleet of sailing dinghies
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to All-Aboard Watersports
£1,810 28/06/2023
For equipment needed to run regular, year round, water based litter picking activities to help clear floating rubbish from the water in Bristol harbour.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to All-Aboard Watersports
£2,350 05/01/2023
As requested by the donor to provide watersports sessions at reasonable cost to those facing challenging circumstances.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to All-Aboard Watersports
£4,000 19/07/2022
Toward replacing one of the group's petrol outboard engines with an electric engine outboard that runs on a rechargeable battery, which will serve as a pilot for the replacement of all the group's petrol outboard engines.
National Lottery Community Fund - Purchase x2 replacement Access 303 dinghies
£7,800 10/06/2022
The project will allow the organisation to purchase fully accessible and adaptable dinghies to support inclusive sailing activities for people with disabilities and older people who have been disproportionately impacted through the pandemic with a ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to All-Aboard Watersports
£10,000 17/03/2022
8
To implement a new CRM system and towards a new Funded Activities Manager role that will help the organisation to develop new relationships with local community and support groups.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to All-Aboard Watersports
£3,074 26/07/2021
As requested by the donor to provide watersports sessions at reasonable cost to those facing challenging circumstances.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to All-Aboard! Water Sport & Water Recreational Activity (Bristol)
£6,900 08/06/2021
purchase equipment for a charity supporting people with disabilities in Bristol
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£3,000 16/03/2021
1
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 Multi Sports
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£20,000 29/01/2021
Core cost funding for 2021 due to effects of coronavirus on our activities
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to All-Aboard Watersports
£6,188 16/12/2020
As requested by the donor to provide watersports sessions at reasonable cost to those facing challenging circumstances.
True Colours Trust - Towards water sports sessions for disabled children – COVID19 response
£5,000 06/10/2020
Towards water sports sessions for disabled children – COVID19 response
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to All-Aboard Watersports
£10,000 29/09/2020
Towards core costs at an inclusive watersports centre affected by complete Centre closure March - June 2020 and subsequent reduced capacity due to group size restrictions.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to All-Aboard Watersports
£4,000 10/06/2020
As requested by the donor towards the core cost of the organisation
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£5,040 21/05/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Sport participation and capacity building
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to All Aboard Watersports
£20,000 11/05/2020
24
towards two years' running costs of a project providing watersports for people with a disability or long term illness in Bristol
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 09/05/2018
Aiming Higher
Quartet Community Foundation - Watersports to improve mental health
£4,960 26/03/2018
12
To provide a set of 30 water-sports sessions to benefit young people affected by mental health issues and pupils from a local special educational needs school, over the coming year.
Quartet Community Foundation - Inclusive Watersports Project
£2,500 27/02/2018
12
Toward the cost of providing 18 watersports sessions for three groups of beneficiaries: primary school children, children with special education needs and young asylum seekers.
Sport England - All-Aboard Bristol project
£29,661 18/05/2017
49
Funding under Sport England's Community Sport Activation Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled All-Aboard Bristol project. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports
Quartet Community Foundation - Watersports Project
£5,000 02/03/2017
11
To enable students from Warmley Park, a Special Educational Needs School which caters for individuals with learning disabilities, to complete their Duke of Edinburgh Award and also enable the Riverside Unit (CAMS service) , a unit for adolescents ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Watersports for SEN Schools
£3,000 12/12/2016
11
To support 3 Special Educational Needs Schools to attend All-aboard for a watersport session.
Sport England - All-Aboard UCanoe
£9,971 17/04/2015
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'All-Aboard UCanoe'. This project is a Canoeing project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
Sport England - All-Aboard Bristol project
£119,605 30/04/2014
Funding under Sport England's Community Sport Activation Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'All-Aboard Bristol project'. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports.
Sport England - Get equipped - Access Paddle Sports
£10,000 17/02/2014
Funding under Sport England's Get Equipped funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Get equipped - Access Paddle Sports'. This project is a Rowing project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
Sport England - Development of indoor rowing area at All Aboard!
£8,986 24/01/2014
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Development of indoor rowing area at All Aboard!'. This project lists its main activity as Rowing.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ANDREW CLAY Appointed: 2024
  • ANTHONY JOHN CHERRY (Chair) Appointed: 2024
  • KAREN DURSLEY Appointed: 2022
  • PETER TRUSS Appointed: 2024
  • SARAH PYNE-CARILLO Appointed: 2024
  • SIMON CHAPMAN Appointed: 2016
  • STEPHEN WEEKS Appointed: 2023
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 25/03/2013, number: 1151374
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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
  • Investment
  • 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
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; AR16: 24 days late, AR15: 31 days late,
Main office

All Aboard Water Sports
Baltic Wharf
Cumberland Road
BRISTOL
BS1 6XG

Objectives

1) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BRISTOL AND THE SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE PARTICIPATION IN WATER SPORTS AND SUCH OTHER RELATED ACTIVITIES, OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS. 2)TO PROVIDE TRANSPORT FACILITIES IN BRISTOL AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE SPECIAL NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BECAUSE THEY ARE ELDERLY, POOR OR DISABLED, PEOPLE WITH YOUNG CHILDREN OR THOSE LIVING IN ISOLATED AREAS WHERE THERE ARE NO ADEQUATE PUBLIC TRANSPORT FACILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE THE ACTIVITIES PROVIDED BY THE CIO.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BRISTOL AND SURROUNDING AREA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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