Trustees Annual report for period : 1st October 2024 - 30 Sep 2025
Enterprise Sailing (Charity no 1167252) – A Charitable Incorporated Organisation
Purposes of the Charity:
1 Provide grants to schools and youth groups to allow under-privileged children to learn to sail dinghies within Birmingham and to then progress to off-shore yachting adventures in the future;
- 2 A pathway to employment as sailing coaches in the future;
3 Uses sailing as a means of bringing young people together from different communities within Birmingham to aid community cohesion. Through the medium of sail training, it aims to introduce young people from different backgrounds, who are sometimes schooled within mono-cultures, to the great diversity that the region (and the country) has to offer. By removing young people from their immediate environment and placing them in a physically challenging environment where people from all backgrounds are equally bewildered, Sail Training provides a context where lasting friendships across communities are forged, where cross cultural understanding is encouraged and where the fear of the "other" is broken down. Some of the participants will become life-long sailors – a pastime which involves a commitment to the discipline and joy of life-long learning. The charity aims to give all participants an experience that will help them develop into adults who are more empathetic, more tolerant of difference, more emotionally intelligent and less susceptible to radicalisation (in all its forms) than they might otherwise be.
Summary of Activities & Achievements for this reporting period relating to our charitable aims:
2025 was the year the Trust grew in strength as a body of volunteers but faced some challenges financially. The recent success of summer ventures meant volunteers are showed greater than ever commitment and willingness to support and lead activities with children, but this has not been matched by the trust’s ability to secure the needed income.
This has meant our greatest ever level of dependency on partners to help us out, and there are two in particular who made 2024-25 a remarkable success. Our thanks is particularly due to the Norfolk Heritage Fleet Trust and to their chair, Neville Khambatta in particular. This Trust has been a partner for the past twelve years as we sail with them and they have seen our work more closely than anyone has. Such is their awareness of the needs we meet that they worked tirelessly over this period to raise over £5000 to help meet our costs for summer 2025.
The second partner is Chartwells, a school catering company that one of our schools contracts with. Chartwells is part of a much bigger company, the Compass Group. When
they heard about what we do and the impact we have on under-served young people they made a thee year commitment to work with Enterprise Sailing. Their support involved the provision of our food for the Norfolk week for fifty people. In addition to providing food they joined us over the last half of the week to provide pop-up catering on the river bank, which meant that children and volunteers alike experienced the best ever level of catering we have known in all our years of operating.
Norfolk Broads Sailing : 2025
The ongoing pressures on schools continues to present us with challenges as a culture of holiday working and adventurous activity continues to be eroded. This year again we had schools keen to participate with headteachers and young people enthusiastic, but staff not willing to give up their time. The benefit of our status as a provider in our own right allows us to take children without necessarily having a staff member from the school which is helpful, but diminishes the impact of the week being carried back into school life.
In 2025 again we had fantastic weather with warm dry conditions and a fair amount of wind! Our participants came from all corners of Birmingham. Christ Church Secondary Academy in the South of the city returned for a second time and Ninestiles Academy, our most faithful participating school, came from the East of Birmingham. Taking advantage of new flexibilities we turned to the Newbigin Trust in the North West of Birmingham, in Winson Green to bring young people with a wider spread of needs and ages, from different schools, but united by their links with this excellent youth project.
We have quietly increased the number of female skippers we have which is a joy to behold and in 2025 one of our girl’s boats won the week’s competition for excellent sailing as well as the crew best at looking after their yacht.
While we know the sailing works, one of the aspects of the cruise that has always needed improving is the structure of other activities and evening play. Thanks to the help of our Norfolk (local) expert volunteers, this continues to improve with a pattern now of mooring sites linked to playing fields and spaces where we can provide organised sport and play in the evenings.
Once again the benefit and impact on individual children is reported back to us through the year, with some most encouraging illustrations of how the positive affirmative and confidence building work of the cruise bears fruit in the lives of maturing young people.
The Trustees have carried out their duties during this period with full regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance regarding public benefit.
Trustees:
Timothy Boyes Chair Gillian Cloke Treasurer Andrew Faux Kate Squires
Registered Address:
Enterprise Sailing – 106 Arden Road Acocks Green Birmingham B27 6AG
Signed:
T J Boyes (Chair) Date: 25/072026
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Charity Name No (if any)
Enterprise Sailing 1167252
Receipts and payments accounts
CC16a
Period start date Period end date
For the period from To
01/10/2024 30/09/2025
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
funds funds funds Total funds Last year
to the to the to the to the to the
nearest £ nearest £ nearest £ nearest £ nearest £
A1 Receipts
Grants - - - - -
Donations 3,761 - - 3,761 1,535
- - - - -
- - - - -
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Sub total (Gross income for AR) 3,761 - - 3,761 1,535
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 3,761 - - 3,761 1,535
A3 Payments
Boat & equipment hire for courses
- 13,081 - 13,081 2,376
Instructors & Instructor training
- - - - -
Project development - - - - -
Catering for courses - 656 - 656 985
Equipment purchase - - - - -
Membership costs 170 - - 170 150
Salaries & NI - - - - -
Phone, internet & IT 138 - - 138 272
Travel - 295 - 295 256
Fundraising - - - - -
Insurance - 1,129 - 1,129 1,073
Other office costs 71 - - 71 783
Sub total 379 15,161 - 15,540 5,895
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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Sub total - - - - -
Total payments 379 15,161 - 15,540 5,895
Net of receipts/(payments) 3,381 - 15,161 - - 11,780 - 4,360
A5 Transfers between funds - 14,084 14,084 - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 10,704 8,500 - 19,204 23,564
Cash funds this year end 1 7,423 - 7,424 19,204
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
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| B1 Cash funds | Cash at bank | 1 | 7,423 | - | |||||
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| Total cash funds | 1 | - | 7,423 | - | |||||
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| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |
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| Tim Boyes | 25/07/2026 | ||||||||