ECCLES COMMUNITY HALL ORGANISATION (ECHO)

Registered charity 1152625 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ECCLES COMMUNITY HALL ORGANISATION, ECHO

PROVIDES SPACE AND FACILITIES FOR LOCAL VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY GROUPS AND FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE EVENTS IN REFURBISHED PARTS OF ECCLES TOWN HALL. PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON IMPROVING SOCIAL CAPITAL, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH AND, BY OFFERING VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES, REDUCING ISOLATION OF VULNERABLE MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.

Objects

TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF [AREA OF BENEFIT] 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 CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS. IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER: TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN OR MANAGE OR CO-OPERATE WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUCH A CENTRE FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE CHARITY IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity's unrestricted reserves stand at £18,000, which the trustees describe as satisfactory despite recent capital expenditure. The accounts state that income exceeds daily running expenditure, although total cash funds decreased by £2,500 during the year due to the acoustic improvement project. The trustees confirm that current reserves are expected to be sufficient to meet future needs, including stage lighting replacement.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Kualo — “Thank you to Kualo for supplying Free charity hosting” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Pamela Hugheschair
• Frances Bernadette Boyle
• JAMES EDWARD RAYNER BA HONS
• Peter Gordon Sharpe
• Stephen John Hopkins
• Vania Elizabeth Burnell

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

Operates in: Salford City

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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