THE THOMAS GIFFORD TRUST

Registered charity 1155669 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trust owns and operates the Charlbury Community Centre, which includes a large sports hall, a cafe and a multi-purpose space, and provides facilities for a public library operated by Oxfordshire County Council. The Trust also maintains The Playing Close for the benefit of the residents of Charlbury.

Objects

TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN A RECREATION GROUND (THE PLAYING CLOSE) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF CHARLBURY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA AND TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SAID INHABITANTS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL THINK FIT.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated operating income of £257,119 against total expenditure of £229,453, resulting in a surplus. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds unrestricted cash reserves of £271,734 and remains cash flow positive, with no part of its operations in deficit.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Charlbury Youth Fundraiser (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Town Council — “The Trustees gratefully acknowledge funding from the Town Council to assist in the maintenance of the Playing Close.” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £484k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER DAVID CHARLES POTTSchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Arne Kuehl
• Ashley Beighton
• Catherine Darya Ball
• DAVID JOHN COURT · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Thomas Holah
• John Paul Cregan
• Kim Harrison
• Matthew Roy Alexander Scott · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Michael Doyle
• Steven Brannan Fairhurst Jones
• Stuart Robin Scott Duff

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN TRUST.

• CHIPPING SODBURY TOWN TRUST income £99k
• THE TOWCESTER COMMUNITY CENTRE TRUST income £7k
• GARFORTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £49k
• ST GEORGE'S COMMUNITY CENTRE AND PLAYING FIELDS CHARITY income £32k
• TATWORTH PLAYING FIELDS income £49k
• COLYFORD MEMORIAL HALL income £33k

Side by side with its peers

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