KENDAL BRIDGE CLUB

Registered charity 1151223 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Playing brdge and encouraging the development of bridge playing in the Kendal area

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT(1)THE ADVANCEMENT OF AMATEUR SPORT BY PROMOTING THE GAME OF BRIDGE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF KENDAL AND THE SURROUNDING AREA;(2)THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE LEARNING, TEACHING AND PLAYING OF BRIDGE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF KENDAL AND THE SURROUNDING AREA WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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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Registered contact address: Westmorland and Furness, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted cash funds total £39,763, which is above its stated reserves policy target of £25,000. The trustees report that the financial accounts show healthy balances with no cause for concern. The charity is entirely volunteer-run and does not employ paid staff.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Peillchair
• David Mark Harris
• Dennis William Pook
• Helen Claire Finch
• Janice Mitchell
• John Christopher Sellar
• John Malcolm Farmer
• Timothy Martin Harrison

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHELTENHAM BRIDGE CLUB.

• CHELTENHAM BRIDGE CLUB income £101k
• THE YORK BRIDGE CLUB income £95k
• THE YOUNG CHELSEA BRIDGE CLUB LIMITED income £117k
• WEARSIDE BRIDGE CLUB income £38k
• THE ROTARY CLUB OF KENDAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £33k
• LEEDS BRIDGE CLUB TRUST income £34k

Side by side with its peers

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