KNIGHTON AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRE

Registered charity 1167969 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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 residents.Manage Knighton and District Community Centre and to maintain and manage the Centre in co-operation with any other person or body, in furtherance of these objects.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO AREA) TO BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF KNIGHTON IN THE COUNTY OF POWYS, INCLUDING RESIDENTS OF SURROUNDING DISTRICTS (HEREAFTER CALLED THE ‘AREA OF BENEFIT’, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER FAITHS. B) TO WORK WITH RESIDENTS, LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, WELL BEING, MENTAL HEALTH AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR ALL RESIDENTS.C) TO MANAGE KNIGHTON AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRE (HEREAFTER CALLED KDCC) AND ITS BUILDINGS AND ASSETS IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS.

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 · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Powys, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operates in a challenging financial environment with rising costs and inconsistent income, resulting in a net decrease in funds for the year. The charity holds limited unrestricted reserves which are considered necessary only for short-term cash flow and core service operations. Key risks include increased utility and staffing costs and reduced grant availability.

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 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

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

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/08/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Thomas Cloughchair
• Bettina Mercedes Hayles
• Bob Andrews
• Caroline Eayrs
• Dawn Helen Ashley
• Michael Harding
• Peter Bruges
• Richard Simon Spear GILL · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Herefordshire · Powys · Shropshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KNIGHTON AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY SUPPORT.

• KNIGHTON AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY SUPPORT income £89k
• HUTTON COMMUNITY CENTRE income £160k
• THE LENTON CENTRE income £577k
• DUNKIRK AND OLD LENTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £68k
• THE HINTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £95k
• HONITON COMMUNITY COMPLEX income £437k

Side by side with its peers

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