MARCHAM COMMUNITY GROUP

Registered charity 1144407 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MCG

Providing the community with leisure facilities to meet local needs:As a membership organisation with elected directors, MCG represents its members' views. On important issues, and to report back to members and seek their views, MCG holds open meetings to which non-members are welcome. Since June 2020, MCG operates village hall and playing fields on behalf of the local community.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE PROVISION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF MARCHAM AND THE SURROUNDING AREA OF FACILITIES (INCLUDING A COMMUNITY BUILDING AND PLAYING FIELDS) FOR MEETINGS, LECTURES AND CLASSES, AND FOR OTHER FORMS OF RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.

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

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity closed the year with a surplus of £18,522 and total unrestricted reserves of £115,651, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover working capital and maintenance costs for up to 12 months. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a cash balance of £125,375, including designated funds for community investment and capital maintenance, indicating a stable financial position despite inflationary pressures.

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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07470307

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.

• ADAMS, David Nicholas — director, appointed 16/10/2025on trustee list
• WARNE, Nathan Mark — director, appointed 16/10/2025on trustee list
• PAM, Jennifer Francis — director, appointed 31/10/2024on trustee list
• DIX, Geoffrey Paul — director, appointed 03/12/2021on trustee list
• HOATH, Michael Trevredyn — director, appointed 02/07/2020on trustee list
• GRADY, Adam Patrick — director, appointed 05/12/2019on trustee list
• MANDER, Ruth Elizabeth — director, appointed 05/12/2019on trustee list
• BARNES, Daniel Peter Robert — director, appointed 05/12/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam Patrick Gradychair
• Daniel Peter Robert Barnes
• David Nicholas Adams
• Geoffrey Paul Dix
• Jennifer Francis Pam
• Michael Trevredyn Hoath
• Nathan Warne
• Ruth Elizabeth Mander

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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