LARC DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Registered charity 1142290 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LARC, LEOMINSTER AREA REGENERATION COMPANY LTD

LARC owns and operates Grange Court in Leominster as a Heritage, Community and Enterprise Hub.It is working with community and voluntary groups across the area to promote its charitable objectives.

Objects

1) TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF LEOMINSTER AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS 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 RESIDENTS. 2) THE PRESERVATION OF BUILDINGS OR SITES OF HISTORICAL OR ARCHITECTURAL IMPORTANCE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE BUILDING KNOWN AS GRANGE COURT, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY OF THE BUILDING AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. 3)SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net expenditure of £35,023 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. The trustees report that charitable and fundraising income is insufficient to finance large new investments, such as exterior refurbishment, which require external grant funding. Despite this, the charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £42,853, which is below its stated policy target of £60,000.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Herefordshire Council — “Without the support from the following, the Grange Court Project would not have been possible: Herefordshire Council” (source page)

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): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jacqueline Anne Herschychair
• Andrew Charles Scholar
• Felicity Norman
• John Stone · trustee of 2 other charities
• PATRICIA ANN POTHECARY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Russell Sutcliffe
• Stephen Thornhill

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

Operates in: Herefordshire · Shropshire · Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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