OLD WOKING AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRE

Registered charity 1164738 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OLD WOKING COMMUNITY CENTRE

The Old Woking Community Centre is to further or benefit the residents of Hoe Valley ward of Woking Borough Council ( hereafter called the Area of Benefit) and the neighbourhood, 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 objective of improving the conditions of life for the residents.

Objects

A) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE HOE VALLEY WARD OF WOKING BOROUGH COUNCIL ( HEREAFTER CALLED THE AREA OF BENEFIT) B) TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE OLD WOKING AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRE FOR THE BENEFIT OF RESIDENTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT.C) TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT FOR THE BENEFIT OF ITS RESIDENTS.

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 the charity reported a surplus of £4,039.68 for the financial year, with total bank balances increasing from £14,477.42 to £18,517.10. The trustees confirm there are no uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Reserves currently exceed £10,000, which is below the stated policy target of three months' operational expenditure (approximately £25,000).

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 6 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

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

• Woking College — “We are very grateful to Woking College for a significant contribution toward the cost of the lift.” (source page)

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/10/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• HOLGER MARSEN
• Ian George Hay · trustee of 1 other charity
• Louise Mary Morales · trustee of 1 other charity
• Pavandeep Kaur Dhuga
• Sandra Dawn Hay
• Stephen Alexander Morton
• TRACEY ANN NUNN
• Valerie Marsen

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WOKINGHAM VOLUNTEER CENTRE.

• THE WOKINGHAM VOLUNTEER CENTRE income £196k
• THE FRIENDS OF WOKING COMMUNITY HOSPITAL income £177k
• WOKING BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUB income £163k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST WOKING income £398k
• PARKSIDE COMMUNITY CENTRE income £170k
• WOKING HOMES income £2.9m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.