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Registered charity · Cornwall

Surfers Against Sewage

Surfers Against Sewage is a registered charity (number 1145877) based in Cornwall, governed by 7 trustees and chaired by Gabriel William Davies since 2024. Latest income £4.0m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as SAS (Charity Commission)

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £4.0m (2025)
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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
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.sas.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Surfers Against Sewage
Registered
2012

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.0m£4.1m
  • 2024£3.4m£3.3m
  • 2023£2.9m£3.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.8m£2.4m
  • 2021£2.4m£2.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO UNDERTAKE AND PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION, IMPROVEMENT AND ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT INCLUDING ASSOCIATED LAND, SHORELINE AND STRUCTURES.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION, IMPROVEMENT AND ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT INCLUDING ASSOCIATED LAND, SHORELINE AND STRUCTURES.

Grants received

11 grants · £1,403,925 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

  • SHAREGIFT £5,0002025-06-24
  • Postcode Green Trust £300,0002025-02-25
  • Postcode Green Trust £300,0002023-12-01
  • The Grocers' Charity £15,0002023-04-28
  • Postcode Earth Trust £300,0002023-02-07
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.

7 trustees on the board

6.7y median 4y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (2)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 7Environment/conservation/heritage 7Arts/culture/heritage/science 1General Charitable Purposes 1

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

Other services 7Professional services 6Arts and leisure 1

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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£3.4m latest income
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.

6.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 14.8 in 2020

46 from 20 in 2020
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
1145877
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20 APR 1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 04/01/2012 as amended on 22 Feb 2022
Companies House
Company number 02920815 · Active
Contact on the register
01872553001 · info@sas.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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