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Registered charity (CIO) · Plymouth

South West Coast Path Association

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.1m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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, Environment/conservation/heritage, Recreation
Where
Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and more
Website
www.southwestcoastpath.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.1m£1.1m
  • 2024£923k£1.0m
  • 2023£910k£967k
Earlier years
  • 2022£645k£731k
  • 2021£520k£601k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 45%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION ARE:1. TO SECURE THE PROTECTION, IMPROVEMENT AND CONSERVATION OF THE SOUTH WEST COAST PATH AND PUBLIC ACCESS TO IT IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC.2. TO EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO A GREATER KNOWLEDGE OF, RESPECT AND CARE FOR, THE COAST AND COUNTRYSIDE BY PROMOTING THE SOUTH WEST COAST PATH.

Grants received

8 grants · £686,135 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

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £411,704 (4 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £220,000
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £29,431 (2 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £25,000

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £20,0002024-12-03
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £1,9182024-02-09
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £348,4302023-05-11
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £220,0002022-06-08
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £1,3572021-03-18
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.

10 trustees on the board

3.4y median 3y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

1
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 10Environment/conservation/heritage 10General Charitable Purposes 10

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 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£923k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

5.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 4.1 in 2020

12 from 8 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
1163422
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Association Registered 04 Sep 2015
Contact on the register
01752 896237 · hello@southwestcoastpath.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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