Cardigan Bay Watersports

Provision of courses in dinghy Sailing, Yacht Cruising, Windsurfing and Powerboat Handling following the syllabus set down by the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) and issuing appropriate certificates to successful candidates. Providing taster sessions and recreational activities for schools, youth groups and individuals in Watersports.

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

In Wales

• Ceredigion

Area of benefit in its governing document: Cardigan Bay

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £63,813 and spent £98,974.

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 59%, from £155,213 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £63,813 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 155% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Reardon Smith Nautical Trust gave £13,892 in the year to 31 December 2024, 9% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

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 31 December 2025: Not reported. 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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 December 2024, the charity named 1 funder who gave £13,892. £0 of that came from public bodies.

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No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

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.

4 trustees run the charity.

• Carl Andrew RichAppointed 27 November 2024
• Crawford MclearyAppointed 19 June 2015
• Mark Andrew Rex WillisAppointed 6 March 2018
• Stephen Richard BerryAppointed 26 June 2012

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, 5 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

1117225

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

12 December 2006

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 6 MARCH 2006

Company number

05731116This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.cardiganbaywatersports.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Ceredigion

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Ceredigion Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Ceredigion's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Ceredigion Penfro