Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: -4
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Gov Income
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

WOOLACOMBE SURF LIFE SAVING CLUB (CIO) 

TO TEACH AND DEVELOP SURF LIFE SAVING SKILLS
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received Government grants
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • There are only 4 trustees

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
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/09/23£62£61£1n/an/an/an/an/a20
30/09/22£39£42£-2n/an/an/an/an/a18
30/09/21£14£21£-7n/an/an/an/an/a18
30/09/20£29£16£13n/an/an/an/an/a25
30/09/19£31£30£1n/an/an/an/an/a25
30/09/18£32£27£5£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 7 years
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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Devon,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports 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 - Growing Adult Participation in Board Paddling
£9,824 02/08/2016
11
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Growing Adult Participation in Board Paddling. This project lists its main activity as Surf Life Saving

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 13/12/2017, number: 1176269
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Filing Record
6 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from WOOLACOMBE SURF LIFE SAVING CLUB on 12/01/2020
Main office

8 ARLINGTON PLACE
WOOLACOMBE
EX34 7BD

Objectives

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO SAVE LIFE BY PREVENTION OR RESCUE AND TO PROMOTE THE METHODS OF SURF LIFE SAVING AND FIRST AID FOR RESUSCITATION OF THE RESCUED FROM THE BEACH IN WOOLACOMBE, DEVON.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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