PENNINE LANCASHIRE COMMUNITY FARM

Registered charity 1169862 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Pennine Lancashire Community Farm was established in February 2002 following the riots in Burnley, to use the medium of outdoor space to bring people together. Its central aims are to promote social inclusion, sustainability (of a community) and education.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION (PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) OF THE RESIDENTS OF EAST LANCASHIRE IN THE AREAS OF AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION, COUNTRY LIFE AND RELATED SUBJECTS.(B) TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ACTIVITIES AND OPEN SPACE, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS, PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY, SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Burnley, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £91,138 for the year ended March 31, 2026, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £337,038 to £245,900. The trustees' policy is to hold six months of operating costs plus winding-up resources, and the current unrestricted reserves of £211,883 are stated to be below this target. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters were found that would cause concern regarding the accuracy or compliance of the accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• 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

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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barbara Trencherchair
• Beatrice Foster
• George Kileen
• JANE WOOD
• Jenny Ann Sawley
• Philena Dugdale
• Richard Hoyle
• Rubina Walker
• Sareda Begum

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PENNINE MAGPIE.

• PENNINE MAGPIE income £1.6m
• PENISTONE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY LTD income £226k

Side by side with its peers

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