WORLESTON AND DISTRICT VILLAGE HALL ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1115499 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity provides, runs and maintains a village hall for the inhabitants of four local parishes.

Objects

THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED TO PROVIDE A VILLAGE HALL TO BE HELD UPON TRUST FOR THE USE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH (ES) OF WORLESTON IN THE COUNTY OF CHESTER (HEREINAFTER CALLED 'THE AREA OF BENEFIT') WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, INCLUDING USE FOR MEETINGS, LECTURES AND CLASSES, AND FOR OTHER FORMS OF RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: WORLESTON, CHESTER

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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Registered contact address: Cheshire East, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves at the year-end stood at £72,506, which is within the charity's stated policy target of retaining three months of operating income as unrestricted reserves. The charity reported a net increase in cash funds of £2,639 for the period, moving from £69,867 to £72,506.

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• 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.

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 31/03/2023 (received 26/02/2024, 26 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• MARK ASTBURYchair
• HARRY STANLEY DUTTON
• LYNN MCGILL
• TRENA DUTTON

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

Operates in: Cheshire East

Income and spending

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