BERKELEY BOOKS

Registered charity 1149718 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Berkeley Books is a community run hub and library. It offers a wide range of activities and educational services to all the community and be a meeting place for clubs and other social events. It will continually expand its activities in line with community demand.

Objects

TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF BERKELEY, GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, 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 LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS.

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 · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net loss of £17,044 for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily due to significant project costs for constructing a new building. The charity reports it is self-sustaining through its own fundraising activities and a grant from Gloucestershire County Council, with net assets increasing to £576,374.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/10/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN STANTONchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ann Elizabeth Rugman
• Diane Joyce Bainbridge
• Gary Michael Keating
• Timothy White

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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