CHARLTON DOWN VILLAGE HALL

Registered charity 1097442 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HERRISON HALL

Provision Of Community Building Facilites

Objects

(A) PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF CHARLTON DOWN IN THE PARISH OF CHARMINSTER, NR. DORCHESTER, DORSET AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD TOGETHER DEFINED BY COUNTY OF DORSET AND SOUTH SOMERSET (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE AREA OF BENEFIT") WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS;(B) ESTABLISH, OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF, A VILLAGE HALL (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE HALL") AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME (WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY LOCAL AUTHORITY OR OTHER PERSON OR BODY) IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS.(C) PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED.

Area of benefit: CHARLTON DOWN IN THE PARISH OF CHARMINSTER, NR. DORCHESTER, DORSET AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD TOGETHER DEFINED BY COUNTY OF DOREST AND SOUTH SOMERSET

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity continues to provide community space, with income from room hire covering running costs. However, the trustees report that necessary maintenance and building improvements present a financial challenge, requiring the drawing on reserves to meet these costs. The document does not provide specific financial figures for reserves or income.

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 3 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Trustee expenses 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Diane Thorpe
• John Yeoman
• Mark Henry Herring
• Morcia Ankcorn
• Peter Jefferies
• Sally Wyatt
• Trevor David Thorpe

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OVERTON VILLAGE HALL.

• OVERTON VILLAGE HALL income £35k
• CLAYTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £70k
• CULMINGTON VILLAGE HALL income £36k
• DRAYTON VILLAGE HALL income £334k
• URCHFONT VILLAGE HALL TRUST income £18k
• VILLAGE HALL income £15k

Side by side with its peers

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