Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 0
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Latest return overdue -5
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

CENTRE FOR OUTDOOR ACTIVITY AND COMMUNITY HUB

COACH is a charity set up to build and run a community activity, education and sports hub for the benefit of those in and around Taunton.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 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 gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity
  • 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

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
30/06/22*£74£65£9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/21£54£57£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/20£65£30£34n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/19£44£33£10n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/18£44£37£6n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/17*£418£18£400n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/16*£651£1£650£0£659£9105.700
30/06/15£14£15£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/06/14*£10£25£-15n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 11 years
Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies HouseFacebookX
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Disability
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Somerset,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Somerset Community Foundation - Community Defibrillator
£1,000 04/01/2022
Installation of a community defibrillator unit in a secure cabinet
Sport England - Small scale facility improvement project
£24,630 15/03/2017
1
Funding under Sport England's English Institute of Sport funding programme for a Capital project titled 'Small scale facility improvement project'. This project lists its main activity as Canoeing. This funding has contributed towards a Outdoor ....more
Sport England - Small scale facility improvement project
£24,630 15/03/2017
0
Funding under Sport England's English Institute of Sport funding programme for a Capital project titled Small scale facility improvement project. This project lists its main activity as Canoeing
Somerset Community Foundation - Disability Kayaking
£3,220 26/07/2016
10
Kayaking for children with special educational needs
Sport England - COACH
£483,995 07/12/2015
15
Funding under Sport England's Improvement Fund funding programme for a Capital project titled 'COACH'. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries. This funding has contributed towards a Multi Facility - Water ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 28-76
  • BRENDA WESTON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired
  • BEN APPLEBY Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Fitness Trainer
  • DAVID FRANCIS BIRD Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired
  • ELIZABETH JASMINE ROSA HORSHAM Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Lawyer
  • ESTELLE CLAIRE SMILLIE (Chair) Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired
  • IAN PAYNE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Teacher
  • JANINE EAST Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Insurance
  • KAREN MARIE HOOD Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Cafe Owner
  • MELANIE SCANLAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired
  • MICHAEL COOK Appointed: 2022
  • SIMON LIPSCOMBE Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/11/2013, number: 1154680
  • Registered at Companies House on 14/06/2012, number: 08106171
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
9 returns made; AR22: 18 days late, AR17: 15 days late, AR16: 11 days late, AR14: 113 days late,
Main office

COACH
French Weir Park
French Weir Avenue
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 1AW

Objectives

TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND SERVICES TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, YOUNG PEOPLE, IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES, RECREATIONAL OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, SUCH FACILITIES BEING PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE SAVE THAT SPECIAL FACILITIES MAY BE PROVIDED FOR PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES MAY HAVE NEED OF SPECIAL FACILITIES AND SERVICES: AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH THROUGH COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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