THE RETREAT ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1150792 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Producing resources and information leaflets on retreatsOffering individual, appropriate and impartial advice to enquirers about retreatsFacilitating networking events and conferences for members and providing a national conference every three years0001

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO ADVANCE RELIGION BY PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE THROUGH RETREATS.

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

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £22,131, which the trustees consider to be three months of unrestricted payments, meeting their stated policy target. The charity reported a net expenditure of £3,180 for the year, reducing total funds from £82,876 to £79,696, but maintains adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08385106

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.

• FEUELL, Crystal Rosemary — director, appointed 03/03/2026on trustee list
• MATTMAN, Urs — director, appointed 20/09/2024not on trustee list
• CHASTNEY, Susan — director, appointed 11/09/2019on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Shirley — director, appointed 11/09/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/07/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Crystal Rosemary Feuell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev WILLIAM MARTIN DAVIES · trustee of 4 other charities
• Sheila Pollard · trustee of 1 other charity
• Shirley Taylor
• Susan Chastney · trustee of 2 other charities
• Urs Mattmann · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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