RECREATION IN ASTON

Registered charity 1120779 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Managing recreation facilities including football pitch, cricket pitch and sports hall plus changing rooms and meeting room. Set up management group with main sports users, meet monthly. Raise funds through events such as Santa around the Village, Fun Run, Yard Sale, musical evenings and quizs.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF ASTON AND THE SURROUNDING DISTRICT THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS; AND2) TO ACQUIRE, REBUILD AND MANAGE THE ASTON SPORTS PAVILION AND/OR OTHER LAND, BUILDINGS AND PROPERTY FOR THE USE OF THE INHABITANTS OF ASTON AND THE SURROUNDING DISTRICT BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS, THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: ASTON AND SURROUNDING DISTRICT

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net deficit of £5,457 for the year ended 30 November 2025, primarily due to expenditure on solar panel installation. Per the trustees' report, the Centre's ongoing operating costs have increased due to staff appointments, prompting a review of rental charges to ensure long-term financial sustainability.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media 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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lindsay Pilkingtonchair
• Anthony Hurrell
• Elizabeth Anne Blackshaw · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Edward Hicklin · trustee of 2 other charities
• Robin Bell

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

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Government & lottery funding

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