BROMLEY HOUSE LIBRARY

Registered charity 1074752 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7063691 · Wikipedia

The principal activity is:-1. That of carrying on a subscription library2. To preserve for the benefit of the public the building and gardens known as Bromley House.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE PROVISION OF SUITABLE LITERATURE FOR THE PUBLIC PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN THE CITY OF NOTTINGHAM AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING A LIBRARY TO PROMOTE THE STUDY AND KNOWLEDGE OF LITERATURE AND ALL ARTISTIC AND SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS AND BY PROVIDING LIBRARY FACILITIES FOR REFERENCE AND RESEARCH FACILITIESTO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE BUILDING AND GARDENS KNOWN AS BROMLEY HOUSE, BEING A PLACE OF HISTORIC AND ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST, VALUE AND BEAUTY

Area of benefit: CITY OF NOTTINGHAM 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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Registered contact address: Nottingham, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a healthy operational surplus of £63,243 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by increased charitable activities and trading income. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,748,053, significantly exceeding the stated policy target of £275,000, indicating strong financial resilience.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (50% 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: 2.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catharine Arnold
• David Anthony Hoskins · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr Erin Connelly
• Martin Gorman
• Michaela Butter MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Harrison
• Peter Timothy Ware

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

Operates in: Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRADBURY COMMUNITY HOUSE CHARITY.

• BRADBURY COMMUNITY HOUSE CHARITY income £142k
• Bromley Homeless income £433k
• PRESTON COMMUNITY LIBRARY income £28k
• THE OLD LIBRARY income £31k
• BROMSGROVE COMMUNITY ARTS income £409k
• THE LONDON LIBRARY income £6.3m

Side by side with its peers

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