## **Swim Inspiration** Charity registration number 1210839 ## ANNUAL REPORT AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 December 2025 ## **Swim Inspiration** ## LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION |Trustees|M Percival
P Smith
H Dowen
S Jones
B Holliday
B Lafford
C France
N John| |---|---| |Charity number|1210839| |Bank|Lloyds Bank
48 Bellevue Terrace,
Worcestershire
WR14 4QG| ||| ||| ## **Swim Inspiration** |Contents||Page| |---|---|---| |Trustee report||4| |Objectives||4| |Main activities||4| |Trustees|4|| |Grants||4| |Instructors|4|| |Sessions|4|| |Members|5|| |Attendees and Instructors|6|| |Training||6| |Financial review||6| |Financial CC16a report|8|| ## **Swim Inspiration** ## Trustees Report For the year ended 31[st] December 2025 The trustees present their annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025 The financial Statement below is in compliant with the CC16a form and guidance notes ## Objectives The objects of the charity set out in the constitution are:- to advance the health and wellbeing of people of all ages who are living with, or are recovering from, long term health conditions and/or , particularly but not exclusively, have a disability as defined in s.6 of the Equality Act 2010 by, providing facilities for them to enjoy being in the water, whether swimming or not, and in so doing to not only relieve health conditions but also, where appropriate, to increase their mobility and to provide social support to overcome problems associated with isolation which are often associated with disability and ill health ## Main Activities Over the course of 2025 the main activities of the group have been ## i) Trustees All 7 Trustees have remained in place for the initial 3 Years commencing 2024. We have asked Naomi John to also join us and she has accepted ## ii) Grants We have had 2 new grants from Lottery for £9000 this is restricted funding to be used by May 2026 Waitrose for 1250 this is unrestricted funding We have some residual funding restricted to Aqua Yoga from MHCF which has been used by year end. ## iii) Instructors There have been a number of changes to the instructors and volunteers. We try and have a minimum of 3 Instructors at each session We have had 2 new volunteers join this year we welcome them to the group and hope that they will be regular contributors, one of our original instructors has rejoined the group and a new volunteer has Joined Sincere thanks also go to the longer standing Helpers Their help is very much appreciated ## iv) Sessions We will have had 43 sessions this year slightly down from last year but the pool has again been closed for a short period. We continued with the Land Yoga again during this period. We continued with the family and wave sessions over the summer with friends and family included. New this year was the introduction of a Coffee and Cake session. This was held in the Christmas half term and attracted 25 people. Thanks to the Lottery funding of “outside activities” ## **Swim Inspiration** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Sessions per year
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
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## v) members We have, for the first time, provided over 850 (859 to be exact) member/sessions over the course of the year. 120 more member/sessions with 2 less sessions. **----- Start of picture text -----**
Number of member/sessions
1,000
900
800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
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## **Swim Inspiration** ## vi) Attendees and instructors We have had the highest attendance per session we have ever had, reaching 20 averaged over the whole year As well as the increase numbers per sessions we have added 2 new Instructors/Volunteers to cover the increase average attendance maintaining our volunteers per member figure It is a difficult balance to make, but the feeling of the trustees is that the quality of our offering would be reduced with too many in each session. It will be a challenge for next year to try and resolve this. **----- Start of picture text -----**
Ratios
25.00
20.00
15.00
10.00
5.00
0.00
2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Average members/session average members/instructor
average Instructors/session
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## vii) Training We have continued with our commitment to training the volunteers and trustees. With some inclusion of the members. We have had the Swim England “Teaching disabled people to swim” and also the “safeguarding” internet based courses made available to the new volunteers and also the trustees. We are looking at the handling and assisting course again and have included through “Young Solutions” a “first aider at work” course for volunteers and Trustees for the first time this year ## viii) Financial review We have a net incoming totalled £13,383 (2024 £3,260). This was made up of £4383 unrestricted and £9000 restricted income The total funds held by the charity at the year end amounted to £13,223 (2024 £7,980) of which £3286 are restricted funds (2024: £7468) and £9937 are restricted funds (2024:£451). Our total out goings this year were £8,140 ( 2024: £8411). We have paid for the pool hire for 2026/2027 in advance which is included in the above figures ## **Swim Inspiration** We are dependent on grants and donations for our continued operation and we are truly grateful to the organisations and individuals who have supported us this year, enabling us to continue our work including those who have devoted time and effort to fundraising internally.. It is the policy of the charity that unrestricted funds which have not been designated for a specific use should be maintained at a level where the group can support itself for one year (about £7500) assuming an average income from subscription (£2500). This means a bank balance of around £5000. The trustees consider that reserves at this level will ensure that, in the event of a significant drop in funding, they will be able to continue the charity's current activities while consideration is given to ways in which additional funds may be raised. This level of reserves has been maintained throughout the year. Swim Inspiration CHARITr (thWSSION FOR ENfjWAIID W￿5 Receipts and payments accounts CC161 F¢*tr* pwknj 0IW1r2025 T• JIMW2025 Section A Receipts and payments Ur#•*trfthrt Jn To￿1 L¥iy• Sub lo￿{G￿$S ￿￿?￿OrA￿l 176 It* 44fa Subfoltst 4412 41 1112 13323 Swim Inspiration Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period lundi nd* fur BI Cmh fund• d• fvrrt* cjthi ri•tsil• B4AB*•ts r•laln•d forthe Yo￿ ?erci ¢&