ASHENGROUND COMMUNITY CENTRE

Registered charity 1093850 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Operating a community centre providing and hiring facilities to bodies involved in the activities listed.

Objects

TO PROVIDE FACILITIES AND SERVICES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE INHABITANTS OF HAYWARDS HEATH, WEST SUSSEX AND THE SURROUNDING AREA WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF GENDER , SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE, DISABILITY OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS ("THE OBJECTS")

Area of benefit: HAYWARDS HEATH

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

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Mid Sussex, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net decrease in total funds of £19,498 for the year ended 30 April 2025, with unrestricted funds falling from £38,713 to £35,388. The trustees confirm the adoption of the going concern basis and note that financial targets are being met despite the loss of hire income from a pre-school. The charity maintains a reserves policy target of at least three months of overall running costs.

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 5 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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
• Trustee expenses 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 30/04/2023 (received 20/05/2024, 81 days after the 29/02/2024 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lord RICHARD GODDARDchair
• Beth Hinton
• Cllr Lasitha Sujan Wickremaratchi
• Dr Alexander Kent
• Helena Jane Brightey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jeremy Charles Whitehead
• KEVIN MARTIN
• MARTIN JOSEPH STANTON
• Rev Martin Jones

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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