COLEHILL COMMUNITY LIBRARY LIMITED

Registered charity 1151552 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COLEHILL COMMUNITY LIBRARY LTD, COLEHILL COMMUNITY LIBRARY OR CCL

Provision of a community library and associated services

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN COLEHILL AND THE SURROUNDING AREA BY THE PROVISION OF A COMMUNITY LIBRARY FACILITY AND ASSOCIATED SERVICES.

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

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

Registered contact address: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that income exceeded expenditure by £16,369 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds of £77,475. Per the trustees' report, free reserves totalled £66,444, which the trustees consider sufficient to deliver charitable objectives for the next twelve months. The financial future is described as being in a good place in the short to medium term, supported by ongoing grants from Colehill Parish Council.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08124849 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• STEADMAN, Dave — director, appointed 07/09/2026not on trustee list
• MORTIMER, Barry — director, appointed 26/08/2024on trustee list
• FOOT, Andrew Saville, Dr — director, appointed 03/09/2022on trustee list
• REDMAN, Kenneth John — director, appointed 26/01/2022on trustee list
• HOLMAN, Jennifer Rosemary — director, appointed 17/08/2019on trustee list
• REDMAN, Mary Teresa — director, appointed 31/08/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barry Mortimer
• David Steadman
• Dr Andrew Saville Foot
• Jennifer Rosemary Holman
• Kenneth John Redman
• MARY TERESA REDMAN
• Susan Julie Cowsill

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CATTERICK, RICHMOND AND COLBURN COMMUNITY LIBRARIES.

• CATTERICK, RICHMOND AND COLBURN COMMUNITY LIBRARIES income £75k
• PRESTON COMMUNITY LIBRARY income £28k
• LONGHEATH COMMUNITY CARE AND CHURCH CENTRE income £37k
• CHALKHILL COMMUNITY CENTRE LTD income £224k
• BEXHILL COMMUNITY CHURCH income £47k
• COLEHILL AND WIMBORNE YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE income £84k

Side by side with its peers

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