CLIFFE WOODS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1161737 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Community centrehires hall to local groups & clubs Organises events for local people

Objects

(1) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE CLIFFE WOODS AREA OF BENEFIT WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AGE, DISABILITY, NATIONALITY, RACE, OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.(2) TO SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME IN FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTS.(3) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AS MADE FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED.THE CHARITY SHALL BE NON-PARTY IN POLITICS AND NON-SECRETARIAL IN RELIGION.THE AREA OF BENEFIT SHALL BE THE CLIFFE WOODS WARD OF THE CLIFFE AND CLIFFE WOODS COUNCIL.

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: Medway, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £87,005.35 for the year, resulting in a significant decrease in net assets from £243,519.78 to £156,514.43. Despite the operational deficit, the charity maintains a cash balance of £185,933.36, which the trustees indicate is sufficient to continue operating the community centre.

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

What the accounts disclose

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 handling
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 27/02/2024, 27 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• IAN DOWNESchair
• CHRISTOPHER JOHN FRIBBINS FRIBBINS
• Denise Andrett Madgwick
• Di Harper
• Fred Harper
• IAIN ANTHONY WALTON
• Kinberley Evans
• Susan McDermid
• Vivienne Walton · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LITTLEWORTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.

• LITTLEWORTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £26k
• QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY CENTRE income £26k
• WHITCHURCH (CARDIFF) COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £44k
• ABBOTSWOOD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £106k
• HEALEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £26k
• COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HALL income £78k

Side by side with its peers

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