2025-09-30-accounts - Aberdeen Kayak Club SCIO

Reference and Administrative Information

Current Trustees

Constitution

Charitable Purposes

Achievements and Performance

Pool Sessions

Seaton Park Sessions

River Trips

Slalom Competitions

General

Financial Review

ABERDEEN KAYAK CLUB SCIO

Annual Accounts

ABERDEEN KAYAK CLUB SCIO

Annual Accounts

Year ended 30 September 2025

1. Basis of Accounting

2. Nature and Purpose of Funds

3. Opening and Closing Balances

4. Equipment

5. Grants

6. Donations

ABERDEEN KAYAK CLUB SCIO

Annual Accounts

Year ended 30 September 2025

APPENDIX 3

APPENDIX 3

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Aberdeen Kayak Club SCIO Trustees’ Annual Report Year ending September 2025

The Trustees have pleasure in presenting their report together with the financial statement for the year ended September 2025.

Charity Name: Aberdeen Kayak Club SCIO Charity Number: SC045213 Registered Address:

Chairperson Secretary (Elected AGM 20/11/24) Treasurer

(Co-opted 10/12/24)

Note: No trustees resigned/left during the year.

Aberdeen Kayak Club SCIO has a two-tier structure with Members and Trustees; trustees who must be members, are elected at the Annual General Meeting, held annually. There must be a minimum of three and a maximum of ten trustees. All trustees are unpaid volunteers.

The promotion of public participation in the sport of Canoeing and the development of this by;
Making available provision in the City of Aberdeen and elsewhere facilities of any kind for participation in the sport of Canoeing.
Providing and making available training in the sport of Canoeing.
Working in partnership with other bodies to advance the purposes.

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Issue01

The year Oct 2024 to Sept 2025 had good attendance at the Pool, and at Seaton Park sessions. Overall membership at the end of 2025 is up to 85 members. A summary of the membership numbers is detailed below.

The pool sessions from 26" Sept 2024 to 27 Mar 2025 were well attended, with a good number of paddlers improving their Rolling technique. RGC have become more commercial, and have increased the pool hire costs, this has led to us reducing our time to one session per week.

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Issue01

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We appreciate the Trustees and club members who volunteer on the Rota, allowing the weekly sessions to go ahead. During the Summer, the number of paddlers attending Seaton Park was very positive as illustrated below. We managed a good number of Taster Sessions, and converted a significant number of these to AKC Members. All our Rota coaches and helpers are PVG scheme members.

The drought over the summer reduced the river levels to barely navigable, and hampered our summer trips. That said, we managed to carry out 14 trips over the report period, ranging from beginner trips (Persley to Seaton and Fun day at Persley), to intermediate trips (Middle Findhorn and Potarch to Banchory). Thanks to for organising and running these trips. The table below gives a breakdown of the trips.

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AKC ran a Slalom double competition “Persley Div 2/3 open”, on 26/27[th] July, which includes the Scottish Junior Championships. AKC successfully had 43 competing paddlers on Saturday 26[th] July and 40 competing paddlers on Sunday 27[th] July. A large thanks to all those who gave their time to coordinate the event, and helpers that ran the kitchen. The Persley Slalom event took in £2,154. After expenses a profit of £1,000 was received into club funds.

The Club renewed its Paddle Scotland Club affiliation in December 2024. This ensures we have Civil Liability Insurance for our Club activities and Employers Liability Insurance, as well as the benefit of advice, guidance and resources on club development.

The Club continued its Level Two Membership from Club Sport Aberdeen. Membership opens access to organisations within the Active Aberdeen Partnership.

AKC continues to have a positive relationship with the Friends of Seaton Park and with the City Council Environmental Management Team.

Paddle Scotland have introduced a new initiative “Standards for Deployment” for Affiliated clubs. The objective of this is to ensure that clubs provide a sustainable, safe and enjoyable environment for everyone who paddles or organises paddling activities. These requirements, have meant club operating procedures have been developed along with training and qualifications will be required for key individuals within the club. Currently AKC is working through these requirements, with the plan that we will be fully compliant by Dec 2026.

The Club acknowledges the effort of the volunteers, coaches, parents, active members and Trustees during the year. The tasks include doing Rota duties, arranging equipment maintenance, managing the Facebook/Instagram accounts, updating AKC webpage, managing the accounts, coordinating meetings, arranging Pools lets, coordinating membership enrolment and fees, etc to name but a few of the varied tasks.

The principal sources of funds are membership fees, Seaton Park sessions and annual Slalom competitions. Pool sessions (winter) are charged at a rate designed to recover costs of pool hire only.

The main Club outgoings are for Insurance of Boats and Equipment, Insurance for the Club’s activities provided through PS, Boat, Paddle and Kayak accessories maintenance and repair.

AKC has a healthy bank balance currently, which as we move forward will put us in a good position for new equipment purchases, repair and paddler training.

The accounts presented cover the year to 30[th] September 2025.

Trustee/Chairman Signed: Date: 12/11/2025

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Issue01

Year ended 30 September 2025

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Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 30[th] September 2025

These accounts have been prepared on the Receipts and Payments basis in accordance with the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended).

The funds are those that may be used at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the objects of the Charity. Although the trustees maintain a single Bank Account and associated Cash, the receipts and payments system includes coding to separately identify restricted and unrestricted monies. During this financial period there have been no restricted funds.

The opening balance for the SCIO is £12,295

The closing balance for this financial period is £13,310

After purchase and sale of equipment during the year the estimated value of equipment is £8780 –> [£5280 (Boats, paddles, Buoyancy aids, decks etc) + £3500 (Trailer)]

There have been no grants applied for or received during the year.

No donations were received during the year.

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Charitable Activities Income and Expenditure

The income and expenditure associated with the day-to-day activities of the charity are summarised as:

Prepared by: Treasurer Chairman ~~Pe~~

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Scottish Charity Regulator
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	Independent examiner’s report on the accounts	=~
Report to the trustees/members of	Charityname Aberdeen Kayak Club
Registered charity	$C045213
number
On the accounts of the	Period start date Period end date
charity forthe period	Da Month Year Da Month 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025	Year
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Respective responsibilities Of trustees and examiner	The charity'strustees are responsible forthe preparation ofthe accounts inaccordance with thetermsofthe Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland)2005Actand the CharitiesAccounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (asamended).Thecharitytrustees
	consider that the audit requirement of Regulation 10(1) (d) ofthe Accounts Regulations
	does not apply. It is my responsibility to examinethe accounts as required under	section
	44(1) (c) oftheActand to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis ofindependent examiner's statement	Myexamination iscarried out inaccordancewith Regulation 11 ofthe2006Accounts Regulations. An examination includes a reviewofthe accounting records kept bythe
	charity and a comparison ofthe accounts presented with those records. It also includes
	consideration ofany unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeks
	explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken
	do not provide all the evidence thatwould be required in an audit and, consequently,
	not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.
Independentexaminer's statement		rthecourse ofmy examination, nomatter hascometomy attention
	1. which givesme reasonablecause fo believe that in any material respect the
	requirements:
	* to keep accounting records in accordance with section 44(1) (a) ofthe 2005	Actand
	Regulation 4 ofthe 2006 Accounts Regulations, and
	* — to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting recordsand complywith
	Regulation 9 ofthe 2006 Accounts Regulations
	have not been met, or
	2. towhich, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper
	i nts to be reached.
Signed:	Date: 06/02/2026
Name:
Relevant professional
qualification(s) orbody (ifany):	MA(Hons) Accounting and Legal Studies
Address:	AcVvo
	38 Castle Street
	Aberdeen

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