2025-03-31-accounts

Trustees’ Annual Report for the period

From 1[st] April 2024

To 31[st] March 2025

Charity name: Tavistock Swimming Club (est.1990)

Charity registration number: 1157854

Objectives and Activities

SORP reference	SORP reference	SORP reference
Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document Para 1.17 The promotion of community participation in healthy recreation in particular by the provision of facilities for the teaching, development and practice of swimming for all age groups within the town of Tavistock, Devon and its locality.
Summary of the main activities in relation to those purposes for the public benefit, in particular, the activities, projects or services identified in the accounts. Para 1.17 and 1.19 Swimming coaching to all age groups from approximately 7 up to senior citizens, provided by Swim England qualified coaches. Training and skills development for volunteers – e.g. technical judging, team management, timekeeping and coaching skills. This includes grants towards Swim England recognised coaching and other training courses.
Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit	Para 1.18	Yes

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SORP reference	SORP reference	SORP reference
Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Grants are available for Swim England coaching courses. The amount of grant paid depends on: the course, the financial state of the club, other funding available to the applicant and the trustees being satisfied that paying the grant will benefit the club’s work (e.g. the club needs coaches with the qualification in question and the person receiving the grant will use their new skills for the club’s benefit.)
Policy on social investment including program related investment	Para 1.38	The club does not hold, or make use of, social investments.

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Volunteers are involved in all aspects of the
Para 1.38 charity: the only people who are paid are
Contribution made by some of the coaches.
volunteers • The trustees, who are all
volunteers, run the club.
• The head coach and one of the
assistant coaches are volunteers.
• Volunteers also:
o organise fundraising;
o publicise the club and its activities;
o run and assist at swimming
competitions (“galas”) – e.g. helping on
poolside, acting as officials and judges;
and
o deal with child welfare matters.
Other
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Achievements and Performance

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SORP reference
• The club provided swimming
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Achievements and Performance	Achievements and Performance	Achievements and Performance
SORP reference
		• The club provided swimming
Summary of the main achievements of the charity, identifying the difference the charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole.	Para 1.20	coaching throughout the year. The number of swimming members training with us fluctuated at around 75-80 during the year. Almost all the members are under 21, but adults who want to join are welcomed too. A ”masters” session was restarted in Dec 2024. • Members included swimmers with disabilities and differences. All are fully integrated in the club’s activities. • Coaching is provided at below cost price, the difference being made up by fundraising and donations. • Free membership continued to be offered to refugees from the war in Ukraine. • It also ran three “introduction to club swimming” courses, each lasting about eight weeks, aimed at giving children who were drawing to the end of basic swimming lessons a taste of swimming as a sport. These courses were completely free to the participants. • In addition, it supported about 25 swimmers from a neighbouring club while that club was waitingfor Swim England

affiliation, so allowing them to continue to
compete during the hiatus.
• The club held several licensed
galas, allowing members to experience
competition, one jointly with another club.
It also ran two informal galas for the
youngest swimmers.
• The club joined with another local
charity to hold a swimming gala and an
aquathlon for local primary school
children.
• The club supported teenagers who
wanted to volunteer, whether as part of
their Duke of Edinburgh award or
otherwise.
• Ten adults and two under 18s
gained poolside qualifications (as
swimming officials or team managers).
Competitions cannot be run without
officials or team managers, so the
recruitment and training of volunteers is
essential for the future of the sport of
swimming. Training as team managers
includes training in child and vulnerable
adult safeguarding.

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Achievements against objectives set	Para 1.41
Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set	Para 1.41
Investment performance against objectives	Para 1.41
Other

Financial Review

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Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 • The club aims approximately to
financial position at the end break even over the year, excluding
of the period
investment in capital items or other
payments of long-term benefit.
• The main expenses are coaching
costs and pool hire.
• After making a significant loss in
2022-3, the club succeeded in coming
back into balance in 2023-24. It did
unexpectedly well in 2024-25, thanks to an
increase in the number of “membership
only” swimmers, who joined to be able to
compete while their main club was become
registered with Swim England.
• The club made a net profit of about
£5.7k in 24-25.
The club’s balance sheet shows reserves
of about £20k.
Statement explaining the Para 1.22 The club holds reserves:
policy for holding reserves • to give it scope to invest in capital
stating why they are held items which will enhance its services or ro
make other payments of long-term benefit;
• to allow it to smooth out fluctuations
and cope with downturns and unexpected
events (eg. the pandemic and the cost-of-
living crisis); and
• because the reserves represent
contributions from previous swimmers and
therefore, save in exceptional
circumstances, should be spent for the
benefit of the club as a whole, rather than
used to reduce fees paid by current
swimmers.
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 £20k
Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22 N/A
reserves
Details of fund materially in Para 1.24 N/A
deficit
Explanation of any Para 1.23 None
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern
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The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising)	Para 1.47	The club’s principal source of funds are: • membership and training fees • gift aid on membership fees

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• grants from a tech firm, pursuant to
“donation matching” for the hours worked
by one of the volunteer coaches
• a swimming meet run annually
• fundraising – cake sales at galas,
bucket collections, donations from parking
at a local fair
The principal risks facing the club are:
• long-term or permanent closure of
A description of the principal Para 1.46 the local swimming pool
risks facing the charity • an inability to get sufficient pool
time, even if pools remain open (e.g. due
to other demands on the facilities)
• a significant increase in costs,
particularly pool hire costs, such that it can
no longer provide coaching at an
affordable cost.
• loss of the main donor, if we cease
to qualify for the match funding which is
provided – eg. the relevant volunteer
coach leaves/ we reach the match funding
limit/ the company’s policy changes
• a significant drop in membership,
whether caused by increased costs or
otherwise
• inability to replace key coaches:
swimming coaches are in high demand:
although we currently have sufficient
coaches for our needs, the future is never
guaranteed
• insufficient volunteers to carry on
the work of running the club, especially
with ever increasing administrative and
regulatory demands.
Other
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Structure, Governance and Management

Description of charity’s trusts:		N//a
Type of governing document (trust deed, royal charter)	Para 1.25	Written constitution, based on the Charity Commission’s model constitution for Charitable Incorporated Organisations (2014) and the Swim England model constitution for swimming clubs.
How is the charity constituted? (e.g unincorporated association, CIO)	Para 1.25	CIO
Trustee selection methods including details of any constitutional provisions e.g. election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees	Para 1.25	• Trustees are appointed by the members at the AGM, with one third of the trustees retiring each year but being eligible for re- election. • Up to three trustees can be appointed during the year by the other trustees; such trustees serve until the conclusion of the following AGM.

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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction Para 1.51
and training of trustees
The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider Para 1.51
network with which the
charity works
Relationship with any related Para 1.51
parties
Other
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Reference and Administrative details

Charity name	Tavistock Swimming Club (est 1990)
Other name the charity uses	Tavistock Swimming Club, TSC
Registered charity number	1157854
Charity’s principal address	2 Barley Market St, Tavistock Devon PL19 0JF

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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Dates acted if not for whole )
Trustee name Office (if any)
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1 Caroline Furze Chairman
2 Claire Palmer Secretary
3 Melanie Oxborough Treasurer
4 Ian Higham Until November 2025
5 Lisa France
6 Lyn McKechnie
7 Samantha Lake Until November 2024
8 Katherine Kelly From November 2024
Liam Sebag-
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Montefiore
10 Sarah Shutt From January 2025
11 Henry Shearman From November 2025
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved

Director name None

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity

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Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year
None
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Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others

Description of the assets None held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of Name Address adviser Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Exemptions from disclosure

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details

~~pT~~ Other optional information

~~PT~~ Declarations

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Caroline Furze Mel Oxborough Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)[Chairman ] Treasurer ~~ee ee~~ Date 28/11/25 28/11/25 ~~: ee ee |~~

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Tavistock Swimming Club Est.1990 ACCOUNTS FOR YE 31 MARCH 2025 Registered charity no.1157854
Profit and loss account 2024-25 2023-24
Membership Fees £ 22,251 £ 15,133
Training Fees £ 16,326 £ 23,396
Direct Income £ 38,577 £ 38,529
Less :
Coaches Wages -£ 7,517 -£ 12,656
Pool Hire Fusion -£ 28,651 -£ 24,982
Mount Kelly -£ 5,916 -£ 3,346
-£ 34,567 -£ 28,328
Profit/ loss on Coaching -£ 3,507 -£ 2,455
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Other Income
Joining Fees				£	1,614			£	676
Galas	Income	£	5,115			£	4,034
	Costs	-£	5,208			-£	3,989
	Transaction fees	-£	48			-£	89
	Total			-£	140			-£	44
Dartmoor meeet		£	5,342
		-£	2,236
		-£	674
				£	2,432
Presentation/ social	Income	£	1,084			£	351
	Costs	-£	1,139			-£	308
	Total			-£	55			£	44
Swimshop	Income	£	308			£	153
	Costs	-£	267			-£	426
	Total			£	41			-£	273
Fundraising	Easy Fundraising & Smile	£	71			£	140
	Donations	£	3,394			£	3,070
	Club Champs	£	152			£	299
	Tesco collections	£	-			£	829
	Other fundraising	£	381			£	285
	Total			£	3,998			£	4,623
Miscellaneous and grants				£	252			£	159
Gift aid (estimated)				£	2,853			£	2,666
Gift aid correction from previous years								-£	26
Total other income				£	10,994			£	7,824
Other expenses (next	page)			-£	1,764			-£	3,040
TOTAL PROFIT/ LOSS				£	5,724			£	2,329

Tavistock Swimming Club Est.1990

ACCOUNTS FOR YE 31 MARCH 2025

Registered charity no.1157854

Balance sheet

Balance sheet
Starting balance 23,824 £ Profit/ loss over the year 5,724 £ Adjustment: swim shop cost of sales 1,270 -£ Ending balance 28,278 £ Consisting of: Current account 19,328 £ Prepayments & accruals (not gift aid) 1,419 £ Gift aid not yet received 7,532 £ Total 28,279 £	21,495 £ 2,329 £ - £
	23,824 £

Breakdown of "other expenses" in profit & loss account

Alora register	-£	29
Card fees	-£	2
Coaches' expenses	-£	69
Domian name	-£	29
Equipment	-£	577
Flyers - printing costs	-£	36
Gifts	-£	50
Invitation cards	-£	37
Other fees/costs	-£	22
Printing & stationery	-£	15
Software excl.Team Unify	-£	9
Swim England	£	62
Team Unify	-£	472
Training	-£	46
Trophies and awards	-£	328
Trophy engraving	-£	104
Total other expenses	-£	1,764

Inde endent Examiner's re ort to the Trustees of Tavistock Swimmin Club This report on the financial statement of the Trust for the year ended 31 March 2025 is in respect of an examination carried out in accordance with s.145 of the Charities Act 2011. Res ective res onsibilities of the trustees and the examiner The Trustees are responsible for the preparation of the financial statement. You consider that the audit requirement of s.144(2) of the Charities Act does not apply. It is my responsibility to issue this report on those accounts in accordan￿ with the terms of the Regulations. Basis of this re ort My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission under s.145(5)(b) of the Act. That examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the Charity and a comparison of the accounts with those records. It also includes considering any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations from you as trustees conceming any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts. Inde endent examiner's statement In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention: i. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements . to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Act" and to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the requirements of the Act and the Regulations have not been met; or ii. to which, in my opinion. attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed Robert Leigh Palmer House Brentor Road Mary Tavy TAVISTOCK PL19 9PY Dated 12 November 2025