RYE COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1083425 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

provide a community centre for the use of the inhabitants of Rye and the neighbourhood

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF RYE AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR OF POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING WITH THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND INHABITANTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THOSE INHABITANTS. (B) TO ESTABLISH AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE OR TO CO-OPERATE WITH ANY LOCAL STATUTORY AUTHORITY IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE CHARITY AND ITS MEMBERS IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECT.

Area of benefit: RYE AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD.

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: Rother, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a deficit of £9,965 for the year ended 31 August 2025, compared to a surplus in the previous year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves decreased from £17,801 to £7,836, while net assets fell from £53,153 to £43,188.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2023 (received 19/08/2024, 50 days after the 30/06/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03971481

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.

• FLETCHER, Roy — director, appointed 13/04/2000on trustee list
• BLATTMAN, Stephen James — director, appointed 13/04/2000on trustee list
• BOUDREAU, Geoffrey — director, appointed 13/04/2000on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/12/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GEOFFREY BOUDREAUchair
• DOREEN MARGARET SMITH
• Dawn May Avery
• John Arthur Holbrook
• ROY FLETCHER
• STEPHEN JAMES BLATTMAN · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EDENTHORPE COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION.

• EDENTHORPE COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION income £33k
• ABBOTSWOOD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £106k
• RYE RECREATION & WELLBEING CIO income £668k
• BELLE VALE COMMUNITY CENTRE income £136k
• THE PARK COMMUNITY CENTRE LIMITED income £1.3m
• RAINHAM AND WENNINGTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £49k

Side by side with its peers

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