THE WHITWORTH CENTRE

Registered charity 1122436 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

A RANGE OF CONFERENCE AND SPORTING ACTIVITIES FOR THE LOCAL AND WIDER COMMUNITY

Objects

TO PROMOTE EDUCATIONAL, LEISURE AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE PARISH OF DARLEY DALE AND THE ADJOINING OR NEIGHBOURING PARISHES OR DISTRICTS IN SUCH MANNER AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME SHALL SEE FIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY DEVELOPING THE USES TO WHICH THE CENTRE, A CONFERENCE CENTRE, A LECTURE HALL, A BALLROOM AND A SPORTING VENUE.

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.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Derbyshire Dales, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £18,737 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted funds from £396,747 to £336,614. The trustees maintain a reserves policy of approximately three months of unrestricted charitable expenditure, and the current unrestricted balance of £336,614 is held against this target. The filing confirms no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06330264 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Whitworth (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• ASH, Peter Alan — director, appointed 06/03/2025on trustee list
• WHEELER, David Lawrence — director, appointed 24/10/2024on trustee list
• WOOD, Jonathan Ross — director, appointed 10/10/2024on trustee list
• DYMOND, Crewenna Isabel — director, appointed 14/08/2024not on trustee list
• RAGG, Christopher — director, appointed 20/05/2024on trustee list
• DARLEY DALE TOWN COUNCIL — corporate director, appointed 01/08/2007not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Gordon Ragg
• David Lawrence Wheeler
• Jonathan Ross Wood
• Peter Ash

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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Side by side with its peers

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