SOLL (VALE)

Registered charity 1107823 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Management of sports and leisure facilities

Objects

THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC FOR THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES: •TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND SERVICES FOR RECREATIONAL, SPORTING OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, SUCH FACILITIES BEING PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE SAVE THAT SPECIAL FACILITIES MAY BE PROVIDED FOR PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES MAY HAVE NEED OF SPECIAL FACILITIES AND SERVICES; AND/OR•TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION; AND/OR•TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR ART, CULTURE AND HERITAGE; AND/OR•TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION AND MANAGEMENT OF PARKS AND OPEN SPACES; AND/OR· SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.'

Area of benefit: VALE OF WHITE HORSE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.

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 reported a surplus of £174,485 for the year ended 31 March 2025, increasing its unrestricted reserves to £388,081. The trustees and auditors confirm that the charity is operating on a going concern basis with sufficient funds to continue operations for at least twelve months. The charity manages a single site and has no controlling parent company.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wenn Townsend. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

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 · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PAUL ANDREW TURNER
• PAUL SAMBROOK
• ROGER BOOKER
• TIMOTHY ALLAN HAMPSON

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SOLIHULL.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SOLIHULL income £853k
• SOCIAL LIFE OPPORTUNITIES (SOLO) income £2.3m
• THE SOLE 2 SOUL FOUNDATION income £237k
• SOLEV CO LIMITED income £276k
• SHERBORNE SPORTS AND LEISURE LIMITED income £1.3m
• HAVANT & WATERLOOVILLE SWIMMING CLUB income £236k

Side by side with its peers

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