GORSE COVERT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1108732 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GORSE COVERT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, GORSE COVERT COMMUNITY CENTRE

The community centre offers a varity of activities to all age groups including, Playgroups, Toddler Groups, Quilting, Dance, Aerobics, Tai Chi, Drawing and Painting, Craft classes, Adult Learning, hire facilities for Training Events and much more.

Objects

(1) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, SOCIAL WELFARE AND RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THE INHABITANTS OF NORTH LOUGHBOROUGH AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THEREOF(2) FOR SUCH PURPOSES TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE BUILDING KNOWN AS "THE GORSE COVERT COMMUNITY CENTRE"

Area of benefit: NORTH LOUGHBOROUGH AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THEREOF.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £94,537, with unrestricted funds rising to £56,101. The charity reports steady income from its café and room hire, while noting that funding for its youth project runs out in March 2025. Trustees are committed to maintaining reserves and keeping spending on building facilities to a minimum.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• VALERY LOUISA WATTSchair
• PETER RIPPON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Raymond Harry Monk
• Roger Eric Reynolds

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

Operates in: Leicestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LINWOOD COMMUNITY CO-OPERATIVE LTD.

• LINWOOD COMMUNITY CO-OPERATIVE LTD income £243k
• WECOCK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £261k
• GORSEINON DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £1.3m
• SOUTH MITCHAM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £298k
• HILTINGBURY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £122k
• THE VILLAGE PRE-SCHOOL (GORSE COVERT) income £148k

Side by side with its peers

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