THE GUILDFORD INSTITUTE

Registered charity 1125031 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Guildford Institute provides educational and cultural activites in a social atmosphere. The organisation makes facilities available for individuals and organisations to provide such activities in the community

Objects

3.1 TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR BY THE DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE, CONTRIBUTING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURAL LIFE AND HERITAGE AND MAKING AVAILABLE EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES; AND3.2 TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE BOROUGH OF GUILDFORD AND SURROUNDING AREAS, AND OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net income improved significantly to £21,387, a turnaround from the previous year's loss, driven by increased course revenue and room hire income. The charity holds total unrestricted reserves of £435,214, of which £334,573 is designated for specific future projects, leaving a general unrestricted fund of £100,641. The trustees consider the current level of revenue to be sustainable despite challenging economic conditions.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sallie Barker MBEchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Alyson Stock
• Andrew Waters
• DAVID STEWART CHEESEMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• JANET CROWE
• Michael Francis Kirby
• Paulus Cornelis Antonius Hienkens
• Philip Leslie Graham Davies
• Tammy Odette Ellis

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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