THE WITCOMBE AND BENTHAM VILLAGE HALL

Registered charity 1154722 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT OF WITCOMBE & BENTHAM VILLAGE HALL

Objects

THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A VILLAGE HALL FOR THE USE OF THE INHABITANTS OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, INCLUDING USE FOR:(A) MEETINGS, LECTURES AND CLASSES, AND(B) OTHER FORMS OF RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE INHABITANTS.

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £21,844 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £381,357. The trustees confirmed that no audit was required under the Charities Act 1993 and that the accounts were subject to an independent examination which found no matters requiring attention.

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 3 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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 (11/05/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CAROLINE MARY HOPE
• David John Clyde Hitchcock
• Jane Frances Wintle
• Robin Danielli FCCA
• STEPHEN HAWKINS · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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