LITTLE CHALFONT COMMUNITY LIBRARY

Registered charity 1154802 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance the education of the public by the provision of a lending library service for the benefit of residents of Little Chalfont and the surrounding area.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROVISION OF A LENDING LIBRARY SERVICE FOR THE BENEFIT OF RESIDENTS OF LITTLE CHALFONT AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.

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 holds reserves of £50,000 against annual expenditure of approximately £20,000, describing its financial position as strong. The trustees note that the principal risk is the removal of funding from local councils, with one grant fixed until March 2027 and another determined annually. No staff are employed, and the library is run entirely by volunteers.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/05/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Graham Yellowleychair
• DAVID WOLSTENHOLME
• Geraldine Newman
• Gillian Anne Hudgell
• Lady Julia Katrin Hughes-Morgan
• MR JON FANTES
• Michael Graham Richardson
• ROHAN DALE
• ROWLAND GAVIN BUCK
• Wendy Yellowley

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.