Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 5

Volatile income
spending growth: -1
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 3

THE DISABLED SAILORS ASSOCIATION

provide recreation facilities and information for disabled and disadvantaged people

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees
Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained

Established: 30 years

disabledsailing.org

MIKEWOOD@DISABLEDSAILING.ORG

07541754196

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
31/12/23		£291	£237	£53	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	11
31/12/22		£408	£347	£61	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/12/21		£434	£332	£102	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/12/20?		£154	£152	£1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/18		£191	£243	£-52	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£220	£218	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£195	£163	£33	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£186	£183	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	*	£200	£191	£9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£267	£249	£17	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£246	£188	£58	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£166	£146	£20	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£137	£123	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£167	£136	£31	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£159	£134	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£157	£134	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06	*	£128	£136	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£201	£191	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£89	£82	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Amateur Sport
Disability

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Other charitable activities
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

France, Spain, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Other Defined Groups
People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
11 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

CHK Foundation	£30,000
Sport England	£23,895
Henry Smith Charity	£20,000
DCMS	£9,600

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£20,000	21/11/2022	to further the charitable objects
CHK Foundation - CHK Discretionary Grant
£10,000	29/12/2021	unrestricted, to further the Charitable Objects
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£9,200	01/02/2021 6	Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project is a Sailing & Yachting project, with a focus on ....more Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project is a Sailing & Yachting project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,600	18/09/2020	"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Disabled Sailors Association
£20,000	07/08/2020 24	towards two years' salary costs of a Skipper for a project providing access to sailing for disabled people in Hampshire.
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£6,700	01/07/2020 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 Sailing & Yachting
Sport England - Increase onboard mobility for disabled sailors
£7,995	23/06/2020 9	Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Increase onboard mobility for disabled sailors. This project is a Sailing & Yachting project, with a ....more Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Increase onboard mobility for disabled sailors. This project is a Sailing & Yachting project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards updating the safety equipment
£500	01/05/2007	Towards updating the safety equipment for their wheelchair accessible yachts for young people.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

DALE MUFFET Appointed: 2023

TALAN SKEELS-PIGGINS Appointed: 2023

DAVID BULLEN Appointed: 2023

MICHAEL WOOD MBE (Chair)

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 24/11/1993, number: 1028993

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
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
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR14: 24 days late, AR09: 13 days late, AR06: 11 days late, AR05: 4 days late,

Main office

53 WYCH LANE
GOSPORT
PO13 0TA

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF DISABLED PEOPLE BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

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