THE MEMORIAL HALL OSWESTRY

Registered charity 1069385 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Public Hall in the centre of Oswestry with 8 rooms available to let, ranging from holding 6 people to 200. The purpose of the charity is to allow community use of the building, and provide a nurturing, supportive and collaborative environment to enable positve community impact. The hall provides a range of volunteer and work experience opportunities to the local community.

Objects

THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A VILLAGE HALL FOR THE USE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, INCLUDING USE FOR MEETINGS, LECTURES AND CLASSES, AND FOR OTHER FORMS OF RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS

Area of benefit: OSWESTRY TOW N, BOROUGH AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £6,600 for the year ending June 30, 2025, with total income of approximately £72,900 against costs of £66,300. The trustees report that the hall's financial performance had been recovered and that it was re-established as a valued community venue. However, the filing also highlights significant past governance weaknesses, including a period where only the Chair remained in post and the absence of a Management Committee.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• VIVIEN EUNICE JANE BYRNEchair
• David Michael Kynaston
• madeline moore

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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