Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 10
  • No PartB
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

SEAS SAILABILITY 

Providing sailing, boating and waterborne activities for disabled people of North Wales, their families and carers.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received

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

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/23£29,738£26,186£3,5526
31/03/22£30,115£19,317£10,79827
31/03/21*£14,581£1,691£12,89012
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 4 years

seassailability.org.uk

seassailability@yahoo.com

01492440625

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebook
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Gwynedd, Isle Of Anglesey,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 6 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
National Lottery Community Fund£57,000
The Fore£12,000
Co-Operative Group£2,387
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - SEAS Director of Operations.
£47,000 13/06/2023
SEAS Sailability in Conwy will use a grant of £47000 over two years to carry out its SEAS Director of Operations' project. The grant will be used to improve the organisation’s resilience and ....more
The Fore - Grant to SEAS Sailability
£12,000 11/11/2021
36
SEAS Sailabiliy is a local charity for the disabled poeple, their carers and families in North Wales based at The Conway Centre on the Menai Strait. SEAS Sailability is using funding from The Fore to ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to SEAS Sailability
£2,387 23/10/2021
Our project will organise sailing and water-based activity sessions for disabled people of North Wales in a safe and controlled way.
National Lottery Community Fund - SEAS Sailability
£10,000 07/05/2021
SEAS Sailability on the Isle of Anglesey will use £10000 to run a programme of boating and sailing activities over the summer for people with disabilities and their families to share experiences and ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 02/06/2020, number: 1189761
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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
3 returns made; AR21: 18 days late,
Main office

16 OVERLEA CRESCENT
DEGANWY
CONWY
LL31 9TB

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN NORTH WALES TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE, IN PARTICULAR BY ENCOURAGING THEIR PARTICIPATION IN RECREATIONAL AND COMPETITIVE SAILING AND BOATING RELATED ACTIVITIES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LOCAL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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