## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1[st] January 2025 to 31[st] December 2025** **Charity name: City Kids Surfing** ## **Charity registration number: 1182899** ## **Objectives and Activities** City Kids Surfing works for the public benefit to advance the lives of young people living in urban locations in the United Kingdom through providing recreational and leisure activities in the interest of social welfare for young people who have a need by reason of their social and economic circumstances, with a view to improving the conditions of life of such persons, in particular by providing opportunities to go surfing. Specifically City Kids Surfing works to raise children’s awareness of ocean-related activities and concerns including: - Improving their swimming ability - Raising awareness of beach safety - Raising awareness of coastal conservation issues - Giving an understanding of the wider surfing industry - To share the benefits of engaging with the ocean for an individual’s physical, mental, social and environmental wellbeing. ## **Achievements and Performance** In 2025, City Kids Surfing continued its focus on improving the governance of our organisation. We also sought to develop our fundraising activities and began a review of our strategy. In September, we welcomed Joe Taylor as a Trustee. Joe brings a wealth of experience from the charity and surf therapy sectors having founded the Wave Project. Joe has immediately helped City Kids Surfing to step back and review its strategy, bringing Trustees and City Kids Surfing founder to a consensus on the charity’s mission, vision and direction. During the year a number of fundraising activities were carried out by our volunteers, including half-marathons and grueling 24 hour swims. We also ran our first ever event: a celebration of cold water surfing at Brockwell Lido, where we held family friendly races on surfboards across the pool, a raffle with generous prizes from local businesses and surf brands and yoga and breath classes. The event was a success, with raising just under £1k and developing a new relationship with Brockwell Lido and Fusion who are keen to explore further events with us. We ran another brilliant programme with three primary schools in South London, working with a total of 24 pupil premium children in year 5. This involved spending time with the staff, parents and pupils in school, raising their awareness of both ocean conservation and coastal safety, as well as developing their understanding of both physical and mental wellbeing. Our programme culminated in a fantastic weekend in North Devon, where the children had the opportunity to experience the benefits of spending time in and near the ocean, to step out of their comfort zones and try surfing for the first time and build new friendships through play and exploration. This year we delivered some of the surf sessions ourselves, with two of our Trustees who are qualified surf instructors. We also ran daily yoga and fitness sessions to build understanding of the importance of physical and mental wellbeing and provide the children with simple tools to implement positive practices in their lives back in London. Each evening we ran fun and educational sessions including a Q&A with a professional surfer and a surf instructor, films to highlight diversity in surfing and an awards ceremony to celebrate everyone’s progress in and out of the water over the programme. This year, we also developed a new short film, in collaboration with talented directors and cinematographers from London. The film depicts the experience of one of the children, and highlights how her two different worlds (one of a big city and the other an ocean) inform each other and teach her lessons of discovery and growth. We plan to launch this film exclusively with the children and their families in 2026, and submit to a number of film festivals. We will use the film as a tool to increase our reach, gain new supporters and attract new funding. With work underway on our new strategy, 2026 will focus on accessing new and larger grants to deliver a pilot across 2026/27, demonstrating the impact of our interventions and seeking expansion of our work. ## **Financial Review** The trustees do not have a reserves policy. City Kids Surfing’s principal sources of funding are currently through: - Donations - Grants - Parents contributing to the costs of the programme and connected trips ## **Financial Activities for Year End 31[st] December 2025:** Total Income - £13,945.44 (of which £1600 was a grant from the Finisterre Foundation, £940.86 came from our Lido event, £11244.58 came from fundraising efforts and donations from our volunteers and supporters, and £160 were contributions from parents) ## Expenditure - Trip: £4387.58 - Film: £2632.32 - Lido fundraising event: £187.50 - Business travel: £90.47 - Admin: £490.69 ## Total Expenditure - £7788.56 ## **Structure, Governance and Management** City Kids Surfing is a CIO, operating from the governing document submitted in April 2019. In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO. ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|City Kids Surfing| |---|---| |
Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1182899| |
Charity’s principal address|5 Brayford Square
London
E1 0SG
England| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
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7||SandyKerr||| |---|---|---|---|---| |||Kate Rudland||| |||Khadija Niang||| |||Joe Taylor||18.09.25 - present
Jo Deagle, Sandy Kerr, Kate
Rudland,Khadija Niang| |||Daniel McKay
Wood||05.01.26 - present
Jo Deagle, Sandy Kerr, Kate
Rudland, Khadija Niang, Joe
Taylor| |||Tony Martin Smith||05.01.26 - present
Jo Deagle, Sandy Kerr, Kate
Rudland, Khadija Niang, Joe
Taylor| ## **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)** Joanna Deagle **Position (eg** Trustee **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 04/05/2026 **City Kids Surfing 1182899 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 1/1/2025 **To** 12/31/2025 **from Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted Endowment Restricted funds Total funds Last year funds funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ A1 Receipts** |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Donations||**-**|**11,245-**|||**-**|**160-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**11,405-**|||**-**|**4,558-**|| |Grants||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**1,600-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**1,600-**|||**-**|**1,250-**|| |Fundraising event||**-**|**941-**|||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**941-**|||**-**|**--**|| |||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**-**|**12,186-**|||**-**|**1,760-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**13,946-**|||**-**|**5,808-**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||||||||||||| |**(see table).**||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||||| |||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |**_Sub total_**||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_ **||**-**|**12,186-**|||**-**|**1,760-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**13,946-**|||**-**|**5,808-**|| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||||||||| |business travel||**-**|**90-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**90-**|||||| |surf programme||**-**|**2,628-**|||**-**|**1,760-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**4,388-**|||**-**|**4,725-**|| |film||**-**|**2,632-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**2,632-**|||||| |fundraising event||**-**|**188-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**188-**|||||| |postage||**-**|**86-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**86-**|||||| |insurance||**-**|**191-**|||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**191-**|||**-**|**151-**|| |website||**-**|**214-**|||||||||||**-**|**214-**|||**-**|**183-**|| |||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **||**-**|**6,029-**|||**-**|**1,760-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**7,789-**|||**-**|**5,059-**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||||||||||| |**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||||| |||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||||| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Total payments_ **||**-**|**6,029-**|||**-**|**1,760-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**7,789-**|||**-**|**5,059-**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**-**|**6,157-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**6,157-**|||**-**|**749-**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**-**|**1,255-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**1,255-**|||**-**|**506-**|| |**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**-**|**7,412-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**7,412-**|||**-**|**1,255-**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** ||||||||**Unrestricted**|||**Restricted funds**|**Restricted funds**||||**Endowment**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**Categories**|**Details**||||**funds**||||||||**funds**|| ||||||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**|| |**B1**|**Cash**|**funds**|Account Balance|||**-**|**7,412-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| |||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| ||||**_Total cash funds_**|||**-**|**7,412-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|| ||||(agree balances with receipts and payments account
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