CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1090087 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide a community hall for the benefits of all Finchampstead residents.

Objects

THE PROPERTY HEREBY DEMISED TOGETHER WITH SUCH OTHER PROPERTY AS MAY BE ACQUIRED BY THE TRUSTEES SHALL BE HELD UPON TRUST FOR THE PURPOSES OF A VILLAGE HALL FOR THE USE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF FINCHAMPSTEAD IN THE COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE 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 CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: FINCHAMPSTEAD

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 achieved a surplus of £4,451 for the year ended 31 July 2025, improving upon the previous year's deficit. Per the trustees' report, the charity is in a very good financial position with unrestricted reserves (General Fund) of £348,538 and total accumulated funds of £349,049.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROLAND HENRY CUNDYchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• ALISON JAYNE RUMBLE
• JEAN WARWICK
• Jacquie Sheila Perryman
• KATHERINE JANE GEDDES
• Pauline Lesley Grainger
• Stephen Peter Bromley
• Yvonne Carol Pett Ridge

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

Operates in: Wokingham

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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