Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 0
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +0
Overall GiG Score: -3 ?

ROYAL CHESTER ROWING CLUB 

Royal Chester Rowing Club promotes the sport of amateur Rowing in and around Chester and seeks to enable allin the community to participate either socially or competitively
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • 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 Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
28/02/23£153,196£128,820£24,37620
28/02/22£98,728£79,327£19,40112
28/02/21£201,285£70,495£130,79012
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 4 years

royalchesterrowingclub.co.uk

rcrcsecretary@gmail.com

01244322468

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
GiG Classification
  • Sports activities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cheshire West & Chester,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 20 volunteers

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 05/01/2021
6
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 Rowing
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£3,422 10/06/2020
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 Rowing
Sport England - Royal Chester Novice Rowing
£10,000 05/05/2017
11
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Royal Chester Novice Rowing. This project lists its main activity as Rowing

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 20/02/2020, number: 1188080
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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
Filing Record
3 returns made; all on time
Main office

ROYAL CHESTER ROWING CLUB
THE GROVES
CHESTER
CH1 1SD

Objectives

THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF CHESTER AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR AMATEUR ROWING (FACILITIES MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT, ACCESS TO COACHING AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES).

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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