CLEMENT'S HALL TRUST

Registered charity 1084425 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST CLEMENT'S HALL PRESERVATION TRUST

To establish, secure and develop community facilities in Clements Hall for the benefit of the local community and for York generally.

Objects

TO PRESERVE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF YORK AND OF THE NATION, THE HISTORICAL, ARCHITECTURAL, AND CONSTRUCTIONAL HERITAGE THAT MAY EXIST IN AND AROUND YORK INCLUDING, BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, ACQUIRING, RENOVATING AND RESTORING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BENEFICIARIES, THE STRUCTURE, CURTILAGE, SITE AND ENVIRONS OF ST CLEMENTS HALL

Area of benefit: YORK

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

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£85k

Latest spending

£85k

Registered

2001

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased by £641 to £18,440, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of three to six months' revenue expenditure. The charity reported a net deficit of £641 for the year, driven by rising costs including doubled energy bills, despite an increase in incoming resources largely due to grant funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy

“The Trustees’ objective is to establish Unrestricted Funds of between 3 months 'and 6 months' revenue expenditure .” — page 10

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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 handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
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
Paying staff
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

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 30

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 30
Government income: £7,142 — grants £7,142 (1); 10% of the £70,023 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 10
Government income: £4,694 — grants £4,694 (1); 8% of the £61,034 total gross income on the same return

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

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 04088514

The charity’s company — latest Companies House iXBRL filing (balance sheet 31 December 2025)

Equity: £22k
Average employees: 4

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.

WEST, Sharon Elizabeth — director, appointed 21/06/2022on trustee list
OLAND, Gleanna — director, appointed 13/05/2022on trustee list
THOMPSON, Karen Kleven — director, appointed 11/01/2022on trustee list
KURREIN, Ann — director, appointed 23/06/2018on trustee list
BERL, Rose Elizabeth — director, appointed 10/10/2012on trustee list
MCCABE, Julia Clare — secretary, appointed 01/09/2010

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

Ann Kurrein
Gleanna Oland
Karen Thompson
ROSE BERL
Sharon West

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

Operates in: City Of York

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£85k	£85k
31/12/2024	£70k	£70k
31/12/2023	£61k	£79k
31/12/2022	£45k	£56k
31/12/2021	£69k	£80k

Common questions

Is CLEMENT'S HALL TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased by £641 to £18,440, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of three to six months' revenue expenditure. The charity reported a net deficit of £641 for the year, driven by rising costs including doubled energy bills, despite an increase in incoming resources largely due to grant funding. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	14/10/2015	£10k	"The impact and legacy of the First World War on our neighbourhood in York"

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
Charity of Thomas Dawson	1	£15k
JOHN MARTIN'S CHARITY	1	£11k
AUDREY EARLE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£8k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST CLEMENT'S COMMUNITY PROPERTY TRUST.

ST CLEMENT'S COMMUNITY PROPERTY TRUST income £369k
YORK EVANGELICAL CHURCH income £175k
WELLS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL TRUST income £300k
LLYSWEN PUBLIC HALL income £31k
SAMUEL WALLACE SMEDLEY TRUST income £503k
OLD HEATH COMMUNITY CENTRE income £26k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CLEMENT'S HALL TRUST	£85k	—	—	below	—	no doubt
ST CLEMENT'S COMMUNITY PROPERTY TRUST FY2026	£369k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
YORK EVANGELICAL CHURCH FY2025	£175k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
WELLS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL TRUST FY2025	£300k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
LLYSWEN PUBLIC HALL FY2025	£31k	—	0	below	—	noted
SAMUEL WALLACE SMEDLEY TRUST FY2026	£503k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.