Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 5

Support Score: 5

Strong growth: +2
Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Mainly male board: -1

Large volunteers +3
Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: 7

MEDWAY WATERSPORTS TRUST LIMITED

Provision of water sports, including sailing, canoeing and kayaking and other outdoor activities for the local community, and especially schools and youth organisations, through access to the River Medway and lake facilites at Alpha Lake, Cliffe.The Trust has a five year plan to build a new water sports centre at the Strand, Gillingham., Kent, on the river frontage.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

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
Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year

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
31/03/23		£20	£33	£-13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/22		£68	£28	£40	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/21		£35	£21	£13	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/20		£29	£22	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	19
31/03/19		£35	£18	£17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/18	*	£28	£18	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£15	£12	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£12	£21	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£95	£48	£47	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£4	£20	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£27	£22	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 12 years

www.medwaywaterpsorts.co.uk

sails@medwaywatersports.co.uk

01634582100

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Education/Training

GiG Classification

Sports activities

How it operates

Provides services

Where it operates

Kent, Medway,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
The General Public/Mankind

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 - Flood Relief
£19,156	13/04/2021 11	Funding under Sport England's Community Asset Fund funding programme for a Capital project titled Flood Relief. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£4,000	30/09/2020	towards core costs over the next 12 months (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Medway Watersports Trust
£3,084	19/11/2018	We want to buy a tractor to enable us to launch and recover our safety boats which are vital to providing a safe environment for students.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 42-72

JAMES DAVID ROSS Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Hotel Manager

LESLEY JULIE SNOWDON Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired

PETER SNOWDON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Retired

ROBERT OAKLEY Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Railway Signaller

MARK FALKINGHAM (Chair) Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Local Govt. Officer, Other trusteeship: THE WEST KENT DOWNS COUNTRYSIDE TRUST,

ROBERT WALKER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/03/2012, number: 1146485
Registered at Companies House on 13/04/2010, number: 07222523

Gift Aid

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
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

11 returns made; AR18: 33 days late,

Main office

Medway Watersports Trust Ltd
Strand Approach Road
GILLINGHAM
ME7 1TT

Objectives

1. TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.2. TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

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