WINTON HOUSE CENTRE

Registered charity 1140306 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing - a centre for the refreshment of the public, an information desk, a contact point for booking volunteer-provided transport for people in need, help and support to local voluntary groups and charities by - making available meeting rooms & an office desk, hiring equipment, photocopying and encapsulating facilities, and postbox facilities

Objects

(1) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT 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 ECONOMICCIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE INDIVIDUALSAND(2) THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE "THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR" MEANS CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS CHARITIES ARE ORGANISATIONS WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED EXCLUSIVELY FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND "VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS" MEANS INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION, BUT DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased significantly to £840,121 due to a £205,714 operating deficit and the sale of investments to fund building refurbishments. The trustees report that reserves remain slightly in excess of their stated policy target but are actively investigating strategies to stabilize finances. The charity confirms it is a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations for at least 12 months.

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
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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 (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/06/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/06/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Richard Peter Phillips CMGchair
• JONATHAN WILDERSPIN
• Linda HATHAWAY
• MELANIE HUGHES
• Michael WADDINGTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Jeanette Crawford

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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