BAKEWELL TOWN & COMMUNITY TRUST

Registered charity 1113707 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Responsible for the day to day management, maintenance and internal refurbishment of the town's principal asset. Major building repairs completed and a lift installed. Large function room(with stage) refurbished and adjoining catering standard kitchen installed. Facilities available for a wide range of activities from community events to business meetings.

Objects

3A. TO PRESERVE AND RESTORE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE BAKEWELL TOWN HALL, BEING OF CONSTRUCTIONAL, ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORICAL HERITAGE.B. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON FOR THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY, OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.C. TO PROMOTE OTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC RESIDENTS OF BAKEWELL AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE DERBYSHIRE

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 charity reported total incoming resources of £130,511 against total expenditure of £131,556, resulting in a net deficit for the year. Unrestricted free reserves stood at £81,555 at the end of the financial year, providing a buffer against the identified risks of economic climate impacts and funding availability.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05687413

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SEARL, Philip John — director, appointed 08/07/2026not on trustee list
• BENTLEY, Alison — director, appointed 20/08/2024on trustee list
• HORROD, Michael James Richard — director, appointed 24/11/2020on trustee list
• HORROD, Helen Katharine — director, appointed 10/07/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Bentley
• Helen Katharine Horrod
• Michael James Richard Horrod

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

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 ALL, SAINTS, BAKEWELL WITH ST. ANNE, OVER HADDON.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ALL, SAINTS, BAKEWELL WITH ST. ANNE, OVER HADDON income £175k
• WEM TOWN HALL COMMUNITY TRUST LTD income £257k
• BAKEWELL AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY income £206k
• BEDWELLTY HOUSE AND PARK income £198k
• WHEATLEY HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £336k
• BEECH VILLAGE HALL AND RECREATION GROUND income £143k

Side by side with its peers

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