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Swinton Lock Activity Centre

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £604k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield City and more
Website
www.swintonlock.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Swinton Lock Activity Centre
Registered
2004

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£604k£486k
  • 2024£518k£455k
  • 2023£519k£413k
Earlier years
  • 2022£421k£324k
  • 2021£352k£262k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, INCLUDING EDUCATION IN THE SOCIAL, PHYSICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE ASSOCIATED WITH CANALS2. THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) THROUGH THE PROVISION OF AN ACTIVITY CENTRE AND CANAL AND ARTS BASED ACTIVITIES3. TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED BY THE TRUSTEES

Grants received

32 grants · £2,008,944 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

4 trustees on the board

4.8y median 4.5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

4
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 4Education/training 4General Charitable Purposes 4

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 4Other services 2Professional services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£604k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

85.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 7.1 in 2021

9 from 10 in 2023
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1103160
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 6 FEBRUARY 2004 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 5TH AUGUST 2005 AS AMENDED ON 02 JUL 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07 SEP 2020
Companies House
Company number 05037431 · Active
Contact on the register
01709 578778 · info@swintonlock.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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