HOLMCROFT YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTRE

Registered charity 1140305 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Organised clubs and activities for the elderly, i.e. dancing, crafts, bowls, outings, and other activities. Preschool Playgroup.Advice and Guidance, signposting.Information & IT support: Open to the whole community 5 days per weekCafe providing snacks and hot drinks..We operate in an area of high deprivation, & high unemployment and a high population of less mobile isolated elderly

Objects

4.1. TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF STAFFORD INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION, LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID RESIDENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR SPIRITUAL NEEDS AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT); AND4.2. TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN SUCH PARTS OF STAFFORD AS THE DIRECTORS IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Area of benefit: STAFFORD

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stafford, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £4,006 for the year ended 31 March 2026, compared to a deficit in the previous year. Total unrestricted funds increased to £308,690, supported by tangible assets valued at £285,000. The directors confirm that major risks have been reviewed and mitigated, and the accounts were prepared on a going concern basis.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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 10/02/2024, 10 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07512889

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.

• DOWN, Kenneth Windsor — director, appointed 05/11/2015on trustee list
• HERRIOTT, Timothy Mark — director, appointed 05/11/2015on trustee list
• LAWRENCE, David Lloyd — director, appointed 01/02/2011on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/06/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev DAVID LLOYD LAWRENCEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• KENNETH WINDSOR DOWN
• TIMOTHY MARK HERRIOTT · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NEWTON AYCLIFFE YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTRE.

• NEWTON AYCLIFFE YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTRE income £101k
• HARRATON AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRE income £68k
• HOLBORN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £648k
• TWYFORD DISTRICT YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE income £31k
• HENFIELD AND DISTRICT SELF HELP GROUP income £27k
• YMCA Dulverton Group income £15.8m

Side by side with its peers

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