Porthcawl Lifeguard Club

New lifeguard station 2010. Provide education and training in surf lifesaving skills and first aid procedures. Improve Voluntary Patrols and support paid lifeguards on both Sandy Bay and Trecco Bay. Attend/host events with SLSA Wales also affiliated to RLSS. Adopted Sandy Bay under the Marine Conservation Scheme and take part in regularly Beach Cleans with the support of Keep Wales Tidy.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Bridgend

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 1 April 2025, it had income of £7,955 and spent £12,339.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Down 48%, from £15,309 in the year to 1 April 2021 to £7,955 in the year to 1 April 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 155% of its income in the year to 1 April 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 1 April 2021: £10,000 from 1 grant. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 3 grants to this charity since 2007, worth at least £29,780.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

2 trustees run the charity.

• Penelope JohnAppointed 1 April 2026
• Stephanie Davenport

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 3 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1058945

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

30 October 1996

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 26 AUGUST 1996

Website

www.porthcawlifeguards.comAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Bridgend

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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