## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1[st] January 2021 To 31[st] December 2021**
**Charity name: Wittering Surf Life Saving Club**
**Charity registration number: 1188584**
## **Objectives and Activities**
To save lives and prevent drowning and to provide education and training in all areas relating to lifesaving, rescue and resuscitation for the benefit of the public in the local community by; the promotion and provision of surf lifesaving qualifications and training in water safety, rescue, lifesaving, coaching, resuscitation and first aid; the promotion and organisation of lifesaving and rescue, beach and pool training, water sports and lifesaving activities for training, recreation and enjoyment that encourage fitness, team work, responsibility and excellence in pursuit of these objects; the promotion of and the provision of voluntary lifesaving and rescue services to the community and public at large; the provision of lifesaving safety awareness and prevention of drowning information; the promotion of the CIO and its activities within the local community.
All trustees have regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.
## **Achievements and Performance**
The main achievements of the charity are that we are in a financially good position and the CIO has a good structure, we look forward to getting the wider public involved.
## **Financial Review**
The charity is in a good financial position having not spent any of its income in 2021. We are in the progressing of building the club structure and planning a operating procedure.
We currently have £3000 in reserves.
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
The charity’s governing body is a trust deed and is set up as a CIO. At the first annual general meeting of the members of the CIO all the charity trustees shall retire from office;
(2) At every subsequent annual general meeting of the members of the CIO, one-third of the charity trustees shall retire from office. If the number of charity trustees is not three or a multiple of three, then the number nearest to one-third shall retire from office, but if there is only one charity trustee, he or she shall retire;
(3) The charity trustees to retire by rotation shall be those who have been longest in office since their last appointment or reappointment. If any trustees were last appointed or reappointed on the same day those to retire shall (unless they otherwise agree among themselves) be determined by lot;
(4) The vacancies so arising may be filled by the decision of the members at the annual general meeting; any vacancies not filled at the annual general meeting may be filled as provided in sub-clause (5) of this clause;
(5) The members or the charity trustees may at any time decide to appoint a new charity trustee, whether in place of a charity trustee who has retired or been removed in accordance with clause [15] (Retirement and removal of charity trustees), or as an additional charity trustee, provided that the limit specified in clause [12(3)] on the number of charity trustees would not as a result be exceeded;
(6) A person so appointed by the members of the CIO shall retire in accordance with the provisions of sub-clauses (2) and (3) of this clause. A person so appointed by the charity trustees shall retire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting after the date of his or
her appointment, and shall not be counted for the purpose of determining which of the charity trustees is to retire by rotation at that meeting.
## **14. Information for new charity trustees**
The charity trustees will make available to each new charity trustee, on or before his or her first appointment:
a) copy of this constitution and any amendments made to it;
and
b) a copy of the CIO’s latest trustees’ annual report and statement of accounts.
## **15. Retirement and removal of charity trustees**
(1) A charity trustee ceases to hold office if he or she:
(a) retires by notifying the CIO in writing (but only if enough charity trustees will remain in office when the notice of resignation takes effect to form a quorum for meetings);
(b) is absent without the permission of the charity trustees from all their meetings held within a period of six months and the trustees resolve that his or her office be vacated;
(c) dies;
(d) in the written opinion, given to the company, of a registered medical practitioner treating that person, has become physically or mentally incapable of acting as a director and may remain so for more than three months;
(e) [is removed by the members of the CIO in accordance with sub-clause (2) of this clause;] or
(f) is disqualified from acting as a charity trustee by virtue of section 178-180 of the Charities Act 2011 (or any statutory reenactment or modification of that provision).
[(2) A charity trustee shall be removed from office if a resolution to remove that trustee is proposed at a general meeting of the members called for that purpose and properly convened in accordance with clause [11], and the resolution is passed by a [two-thirds] majority of votes cast at the meeting.
(3) A resolution to remove a charity trustee in accordance with this clause shall not take effect unless the individual concerned has been given at least 14 clear days’ notice in writing that the resolution is to be proposed, specifying the
circumstances alleged to justify removal from office, and has been given a reasonable opportunity of making oral and/or written representations to the members of the CIO.
## **16. Reappointment of charity trustees**
Any person who retires as a charity trustee by rotation or by giving notice to the CIO is eligible for reappointment.
## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name Wittering Surf Life Saving Club
Other name the charity
uses
Registered charity 1188584
number
Charity’s principal West Wittering Beach,
address Pound Road,
West Wittering,
West Sussex
PO20 8AJ
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 Thomas Ward Chair
Natalie Emma Trustee
2
Dobson
Lucy Louise Trustee
3
Howell
4 Craig Maltby Trustee
5 Keith Rathbone Trustee
6 Adrian Roldan Trustee
Mark Colin Trustee
7
Robbins
8 Max Ambrose Trustee
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
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## 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
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
**None**
## **Other optional information**
**None**
## **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date**
## **Balance Sheet**
## **Wittering Surf Life Saving Club**
## **As at 31 December 2021**
||**£**|**£**|
|---|---|---|
|**Capital Assets**|||
|Net Book Value|£0||
|**Current Assets**|**3,000**||
|Bank Account: Business Current Account|3,000||
|**Current Liabilities**
**_less_**||**3,000**|
|Director Loan Account: Maxwell Ambrose||3,000|
|**Net Current Assets**|**£0**||
|**Total Assets**|**£0**||
|**Owner's Equity:**|||
|Retained Profit||0|
|**Total Owner's Equity**||**£0**|