SAST Charity Status announcement
We are delighted to announce that the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) has confirmed that South Ayrshire Swim Team (SAST) meets the charity test and has been entered into the Scottish Charity Register. This means that SAST now has charitable status under the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005.
The advantages of becoming a charity: we can benefit from an increase in public recognition and trust (because we cannot use assets for any purpose other than the pursuit of charitable objectives); we can benefit from tax relief; we are now eligible for additional sources of funding.
Changes now we are a charity: we need to ensure that we publicise that we are a charity in all communications; we are now eligible for gift aid; we have additional reporting responsibilities at the end of each financial year.
What doesn’t change now we are a charity: we will continue to operate in the same way as we always have; our Constitution and annual accounts will continue to be available for anyone that would like to see them.
We are not the first swimming cub to become a charity and are following in the footsteps of the Carnegie SC, North Ayrshire ASC, M&B ASC, Bathgate ASC and Scotia ASC as well as numerous other aquatic based organisations.
If you would like more information on OSCR, please visit their website https://www.oscr.org.uk/
Watch out for more information on how we plan to make use of our new charity status. We will report progress via Team Unify, club emails and annually at our AGM. And if you have any ideas on how to do so, please contact us at [email protected]
Charity Information
| Charity’s registered name |
South Ayrshire Swim Team |
| Charity number |
SC050025 |
| Type of charity |
Unincorporated association |
| Charity registered on |
10 March 2020 |
| Charity’s ‘known as’ name |
SAST |
| Charity website |
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| Principal contact address |
c/o Prestwick Swimming Pool Bellevue Road Prestwick South Ayrshire Scotland KA9 1NW |
| Principle contact (as of July 2020) |
Helen Dorrance |
| Charity trustees (as of July 2020) |
Catherine Hardy Stephen Erentz |
| Accounting reference date |
30 June |
Our charitable purpose is:
The advancement of public participation in sport.
Our charitable objects are (as per the Constitution):
C2.1 The objectives of the Club are best understood from the Club’s Mission and Values.
C2.2 The Club’s Mission is:
Striving for excellence in swimming, allowing all swimmers to achieve their full potential
C2.3 The Club’s Mission is underpinned by the core values of Participation, Opportunity, Achievement, Respect and Inclusivity. These values are at the heart of everything the club does and ensure that effort, commitment, teamwork and performance are valued and rewarded in equal measure.
C2.4 Taken together these allow the Club to advance the public participation in Aquatic Sports by promoting and managing the teaching, knowledge and practice of one or more Aquatic Sports, in accordance with paragraph C2.1 of the SASA Constitution.
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