THE AMMERDOWN CENTRE LIMITED

Registered charity 1010244 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AMMERDOWN

Conference and Retreat Centre with special focus on spiritual renewal, interfaith dialogue, peace and reconciliation

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £54,184 and free reserves of £288,805, which the trustees note are below their stated policy target of six months' recurring overhead expenditure. The trustees acknowledge that reserves are currently equivalent to 3.56 months of expenditure and intend to work to restore them to the six-month target over the next few years.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02685658 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Ammerdown Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BAKER, Hilary Mary, Rev — director, appointed 17/03/2025on trustee list
• BALL, Susan Kathryn — director, appointed 12/09/2023on trustee list
• TEGALLY, Narinder, Rev — director, appointed 12/09/2023on trustee list
• JOLLIFFE, Diana — director, appointed 12/09/2023on trustee list
• JOLLIFFE, John Raymond Edward Arthur — director, appointed 12/09/2023on trustee list
• POWELL, Gareth — director, appointed 14/02/2020not on trustee list
• BURGESS, Stuart John, Revd Dr — director, appointed 29/09/2014on trustee list
• GLANVILLE, Susan Lesley — director, appointed 24/06/2014not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/04/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Diana Jennifer Jolliffe
• Dr STUART BURGESS · trustee of 2 other charities
• John Raymond Edward Arthur Jolliffe
• Rev Hilary Mary Baker
• Rev Narinder Jit Kaur Tegally · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sue Glanville
• Susan Kathryn Ball

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).