2025-12-31-accounts - The Coastguard Association Charity

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The Coastguard Association Charity

Registered Charity No 279359

Trustees Report for 2025

The Association continued to uphold its goal of raising our profile with all stakeholders. We are particularly grateful for a continuously developing relationship with various departments and within the Senior Leadership Team from the Maritime Coastguard Agency (MCA), who actively maintain support for our activities.

The MCA are actively promoting awareness of the Coastguard Association amongst MCA employees and volunteers and continue to encourage more engagement from within the agency to interact with the Coastguard Association further.

As reported in 2024, we are not only engaged in providing financial support, for 2025 we were successful in providing training in peer-to-peer Mental Health Awareness and Support within the membership. We understand this has been viewed positively as beneficial for those involved, both in terms of volunteer training and those that have used and engaged with this welfare provision.

In 2025, the Coastguard Association leased an Office in Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire as a formal base of operations and activities going forward. As reported in 2024, our aim is make the Coastguard Association more professional, proactive and to improve the management of our activities to foster further growth by way of increased membership, merchandising and donations.

We have simultaneously introduced a member relationship management system to facilitate our interactions with our members, embraced online payment systems to streamline our operations, merchandising functions and the wide variety of local and national fundraising activities we undertake. Our membership is growing steadily, reserves are continuing to show strength, and we are maintaining our ability to provide the help and assistance to our stakeholders appropriate to our stated aims.

We again continued our presence at the Emergency Services Show (ESS) at the NEC in Birmingham in order to maintain visibility to our members, and our online and digital

Registered Charity Number 279359 Email: Treasurer@coastguardassociation.org.uk

presence continues to be a vital part of our mission to inform all stakeholders of our ongoing activities and is at the forefront of promoting membership.

Our Membership Assistance Programme initiative in partnership with a leading service provider, enables members to access Health and Wellbeing facilities as well as providing other benefits associated with lifestyle preferences, and continues to be a universal benefit of membership.

Looking forward, 2026 is our 50[th] Anniversary year and it is our intention to take the Coastguard Association on the road to visit all 18 Operational Coastguard areas across the UK to further promote the activities and benefits of the Coastguard Association to our stakeholders. We are grateful to our private sector partners who are sponsoring much of this activity and our progress will be visible to all online over the summer of 2026.

Once again, we are grateful to our loyal supporters, volunteers and partners without whose efforts much of our aims would not be possible.

Our next Annual General Meeting will be held at Louth and Mablethorpe in March 2026 .

Stuart Arundel

Trustee and Chairman of the Committee 21st March 2026.

Registered Charity Number 279359 Email: Treasurer@coastguardassociation.org.uk

The Coastguard Association Registered Charity No 279359 Receipts and Payment Accountfor the year ended 31 December 2025 Yèar ended 31 Dec 2024 £ 122,206 8,464 927 Year ended 31 De¢ 2025 £ 487,665 8.525 Recelpts Donation5 and subscrlptions lincludin8 estate le8acyl Property rental income Interest and investment income Income from promotional emS and fundraising Branch income Total r•c•lpts Sn t y•ar 7.310 8,573 21500 161,669 506,994 Paym•nts Grants and rellel. 7 recipients Ipreviou5 yr 131 56 Retired OffScers Xma5 Gifts & Cards Memb•r Asslstance and Support Ser¥ices Postage & stationery Promotlonal ilems and prlntlng Show and exhibitions Travel Property Aunnln8 costs and repalTS Property Agent's Fees Insurance Offlce rental IT expenses Professlonal fees Sub5Crtptlons AGM e¥penses GDPR / Governance Telephones Other 8eneral expenses Tot•1 poym•nts lfi th• y••r 113,SWI 11.1201 17.0801 11.3781 14,0851 {1,8251 17451 11,3931 11.2281 19881 15,5941 15.0911 11.0421 11,4221 12.9851 13901 11621 17431 150.7701 122.3251 12,8801 11.5281 14,5591 13,8411 16421 11621 11,2101 14331 13.4311 17971 15931 11.5311 14921 144.4231 ÉMcÈss of rec•lpts •xpens•s 456,224 117,247 Ye•r ended 31 Dec 2025 £ 620,612 456,224 1.076,837 Ye•r ended 31 Dec 2024 £ RKonclllatlon of lynds In th• y•ar Cash and Investment balan¢es at the stsrt ol the year Excess of intome over expenses in the year Fund balances at the end of the year 503,366 117.247 620.612 V••r ended 31 Dec 2025 £ 142,687 813,777 99.807 419 2Q,146 1,076,837 Year erKled 31 Dec Z014 £ R•presented by: Residential Property (original costl Cash - Charlty Actounts Cash - General Accounts Petty Cash 8ranch Cash 142,687 314,262 141.191 973 21,500 620,612 Approved. I have exarnlned the above receipts and paytnents of The Coastguard Asgxlation and confimi them to be in agreement with the bkS and recor(ts prèsented to me.