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Registered charity · Hampshire

Oarsome Chance

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (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
Where
Hampshire
Website
www.oarsomechance.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Oarsome Chance
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.5m£1.4m
  • 2024£708k£794k
  • 2023£578k£767k
Earlier years
  • 2022£819k£753k
  • 2021£689k£571k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 63%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 25 LIVING IN THE UK BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE, AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF: (A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION;(C) ADVANCING EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS (D) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY, SPECIFICALLY COASTAL AND INDOOR ROWING PROGRAMMES, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.

Grants received

20 grants · £744,575 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £394,4322024-04-25
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,1002024-03-21
  • The Berkeley Foundation £5,0002023-04-26
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £9,5342022-11-25
  • BBC Children in Need £5002022-10-20
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.

9 trustees on the board

1.8y median 1y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
4.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

9
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 9General Charitable Purposes 9

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

Education 9Arts and leisure 2Tech and media 2

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£1.5m 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.

2.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 8.1 in 2021

20 from 15 in 2021
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
1167787
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 19 OCT 2015 as amended on 24 May 2018 as amended on 26 Feb 2020
Companies House
Company number 09829935 · Active
Contact on the register
02392 504492 · paul.napthine@oarsomechance.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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