HENLEY COMMUNITY CENTRE CHARITY

Registered charity 1150878 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The main object of the Charity is to provide recreational and sporting facilities, playing fields, playgrounds and the Community Centre in the Parish of Henley. The Henley Parish Council owns the Hall and the surrounding grounds. The Henley Community Centre Charity holds a 99-year lease commencing on the 6th January 1998 from the Parish Council.

Objects

TO PROVIDE RECREATIONAL AND SPORTING FACILITIES PLAYING FIELDS PLAYGROUNDS COMMUNITY CENTRES AND OTHER AMENITIES OF A SIMILAR CHARACTER FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AND INHABITANTS WITHIN THE PARISH OF HENLEY IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK AND SUCH NEIGHBOURING PARISHES AND AREAS AS THE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE IN ITS ABSOLUTE DISCRETION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF ADVANCING EDUCATION FURTHERING HEALTH RELIEVING POVERTY DISTRESS OR SICKNESS OR IN PURSUING ANY OBJECTS WHICH NOW ARE OR WHICH HEREAFTER MAY BE DEEMED IN LAW TO BE CHARITABLE BY IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR SUCH INHABITANTS AS AFORESAID.

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 the charity recorded a significant deficit for the year ending March 2025, driven by declines in hire and bar income alongside overspending on refurbishments. Despite this, the trustees confirm that the charity maintains sufficient accumulated funds and designated reserves to support future developments and ongoing operations.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/08/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barrie John Pyke
• David Jason Ford
• Grahame James Hughes
• Robert John Earey
• Stephen Andrew Brock

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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