THE CHORLEY COMMUNITY TRUST

Registered charity 1159200 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHORLEY RUGBY UNION FOOTBALL TRUST · filing overdue (register status)

The Chorley Community Trust has been established to provide sporting and leisure facilities and opportunities for the residents of Chorley and District.

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF CHORLEY, LANCASHIRE, AND THE SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.

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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Registered contact address: Chorley, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has total unrestricted funds of £2,765,651, representing a net increase from the prior year. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties identified. The charity is currently developing a multi-sport community facility and has commenced trading activities to support its operations.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 08/09/2026, 312 days after the 31/10/2025 due date); year ending 31/12/2023 (received 14/11/2024, 14 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 19/02/2024, 111 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 20/06/2023, 232 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTHONY JOHN CALLANDER J.P.
• Graeme Richard Brown
• SIMON ANDREW ROBINSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• STEPHEN TONY GOODMAN

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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