TRAWDEN FOREST COMMUNITY CENTRE

Registered charity 1158193 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Manage & care take a Community Centre which was gifted by asset transfer via the local council. Our aim is to maintain and upkeep the centre, so that people from the local area and it's environs have use of a facility which offers a range of daily group activities and also to enable them to privately hire the centre for family and personal functions. We raise funds continually for its upkeep.

Objects

To promote, support, further or otherwise benefit the residents of Trawden Forest and the surrounding area, without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, race, or of political, religious or other opinions.To do so by associating together the said residents, the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations, in a common effort to achieve the following:- the promotion and advancement of education, community development, health, environmental protection and improvement, the prevention or the relief of poverty, and of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill health, disability, financial hardship, or other disadvantage.- the provision, or assistance in the provision, of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation, in the interests of social welfare, with the objective of improving the conditions of life for the said residents.In furtherance of these objectives, but not otherwise, the trustees shall have the power to establish, or secure the establishment of, a community centre, community shop, community library and any other community asset or space, and to maintain, manage, or cooperate with any statutory authority in the maintenance and management of such centres, assets or spaces, in order that they may be used to facilitate activities promoted by the charity in furtherance of their objects.

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 unrestricted reserves excluding property and subsidiary reserves were £165,943, with free reserves of £124,943. The trustees note that the charity is committed to self-funding two vital posts for the next three financial years following the expiry of grant funding, relying on income from the community shop to maintain financial self-sufficiency.

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 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: TRAWDEN FOREST COMMUNITY SHOP LTD Companies House 12578019

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Trawden Forest Community Centre (matched by registered charity number).

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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Ann Boocockchair
• Andrew William Froud
• Ann Myers · trustee of 1 other charity
• Chris Whitaker - Webb
• ELIZABETH KAY BERRIDGE
• Helen Elizabeth Welsh
• Helen Margaret Hodkinson
• Karen Bradley
• Kevin McNulty
• Robert David Boocock
• Sara Jane Swann

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

Operates in: Lancashire

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• FOREST COMMUNITY CENTRE (MELKSHAM) income £128k
• FORESTDALE RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION income £335k
• THE COLDEN COMMON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £123k
• LLANI COMMUNITY CENTRE LIMITED income £112k
• LINWOOD COMMUNITY CO-OPERATIVE LTD income £243k
• FLEETVILLE COMMUNITY CENTRE income £120k

Side by side with its peers

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