BINGHAM LIBRARY TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1163250 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

For the benefit of Cirencester, to advance public education & the arts/music. Also to provide facilities for recreation or leisure, in the interests of social welfare, to improve life for people who live in or visit the area and/or people who have particular needs by reason of youth, age, infirmity, disability, poverty or social and economic circumstances.

Objects

THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF CIRENCESTER (THE AREA OF BENEFIT) AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, TO:1 ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION BY SUPPORTING LIBRARY FACILITIES (ADDITIONAL TO THOSE NORMALLY PROVIDED BY PUBLIC BODIES AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER PUBLIC LIBRARIES LEGISLATION) AND BY PROMOTING THE APPRECIATION OF ARTS (INCLUDING MUSIC) AND2 PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE PARTICULARLY FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN OR VISIT THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND/OR PEOPLE WHO HAVE PARTICULAR NEEDS BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY OR POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.

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 total expenditure exceeded income by £36,664, a shortfall met from general reserves. The charity holds unrestricted funds of £795,263 and investment property valued at £2,962,003, providing significant asset backing despite the current year 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 5 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 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09317378

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• TUTTLE, Robert Edwin — director, appointed 30/09/2025on trustee list
• FOWLES, John Anthony David — director, appointed 24/11/2020on trustee list
• NOLES, Joanna — director, appointed 04/03/2019on trustee list
• ALEXANDER, Shirley Anne — director, appointed 18/11/2014on trustee list
• LICHNOWSKI, Andrew Jerzy — director, appointed 18/11/2014on trustee list
• SELWYN, Gary Martyn — director, appointed 18/11/2014on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Joanna Noleschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANDREW LICHNOWSKI
• GARY MARTYN SELWYN · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Anthony David Fowles
• Robert Edwin Tuttle · trustee of 1 other charity
• Shirley Anne Alexander · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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