LENHAM COMMUNITY CENTRE

Registered charity 1166995 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing a Community Centre for the Parish of Lenham & surrounding area

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO OPERATE A VILLAGE HALL FOR THE USE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF LENHAM AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD ("AREA OF BENEFIT") WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS AND IN PARTICULAR FOR USE FOR MEETINGS LECTURES AND CLASSES AND FOR OTHER FORMS OF RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS 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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ran at a deficit of £14,294.34 for the year ending 31 December 2025. However, the trustees report that the charity remains financially healthy, meeting its reserve policy threshold with unrestricted reserves of £46,396. The primary source of income is from charging for room bookings, with a small portion from fundraising and grants.

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

What the accounts disclose

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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 (02/08/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Needhamchair
• BARBARA DOMINY
• Barbara Ann Kyprianou
• Christine Godden
• DAVID ABSON
• Edmund Ault
• JULIA ALLEN
• Katrina Hammond
• Luke Wilson
• MARSHALL PETER OSBORNE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Margaret Baines
• Martyn Simms
• Pat Abson
• RICHARD POWELL
• Rhonda Bailey
• Rosie Hadaway
• Stephanie Richardson
• Vivienne Lawrence
• William Taylor

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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