ASKHAM AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRE

Registered charity 1170307 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity provides and hosts social, leisure and health promoting activities. These include coffee mornings, weekly lunches, community breakfasts, an annual village show, keep fit classes, yoga, film nights, history and archaeology society, and various other clubs and societies. The facilities we provide are a village hall, swimming pools and car park.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO ESTABLISH AND RUN A VILLAGE HALL, RECREATION GROUND AND SWIMMING POOL AND TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF ASKHAM AND DISTRICT ("AREA OF BENEFIT") WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AGE, DISABILITY, NATIONALITY, RACE OR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND 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 · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westmorland and Furness, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Received the assets of ASKHAM AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRE (charity 523049) — merger registered 04/03/2020.

Source: Charity Commission register of merged charities (OGL v3.0).

Latest income

£51k

Latest spending

£74k

Registered

2016

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net operating surplus of £13,985.02 for the year ended 31 December 2025. Total consolidated net assets decreased from £47,407.16 in the prior year to £28,859.49, primarily due to significant capital expenditure on refurbishment and maintenance projects funded by grants and reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Hall and Pool Hire (83% of income)

“Hall and Pool Hire 7,019.00 21,994.64 29,013.64” — page 2

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 2 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
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 10
Government income: £12,507 — grants £12,507 (2); 24% of the £51,291 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 5
Government income: £1,707 — grants £1,707 (2); 4% of the £40,928 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 8
Government income: £1,507 — grants £1,507 (1); 3% of the £55,004 total gross income on the same return

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

Register events

Received assets from another charity (04/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Malcolm Francis Holtchair
JOHN BANKS
JUNE BRATTON
LAURA HARKER
Lorna Marie Rand

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£51k	£74k
31/12/2024	£41k	£44k
31/12/2023	£55k	£52k
31/12/2022	£43k	£25k
31/12/2021	£38k	£31k

Common questions

Is ASKHAM AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net operating surplus of £13,985.02 for the year ended 31 December 2025. Total consolidated net assets decreased from £47,407.16 in the prior year to £28,859.49, primarily due to significant capital expenditure on refurbishment and maintenance projects funded by grants and reserves. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds ASKHAM AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name ASKHAM AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRE as a grant recipient include THE HADFIELD CHARITABLE TRUST, THE HOLEHIRD TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE HADFIELD CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£3k	Social Needs
THE HOLEHIRD TRUST	FY2024	£2k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
Northern Rock Foundation	12/07/2005	£50k	Grant awarded to Askham and District Community Centre (Cumbria)

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON	2	£73k
THE LONDON MARATHON CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED	1	£70k
MERTON VOLUNTARY SERVICE COUNCIL	1	£29k
MARGARET DAVIES CHARITY	1	£10k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTH MITCHAM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.

SOUTH MITCHAM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £298k
WECOCK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £261k
LONGTOWN MEMORIAL HALL COMMUNITY CENTRE income £113k
CWMPARC COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £296k
WHICKHAM COMMUNITY CENTRE income £39k
CHALKHILL COMMUNITY CENTRE LTD income £224k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
ASKHAM AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRE	£51k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
SOUTH MITCHAM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2025	£298k	—	below	—	no doubt
WECOCK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2025	£261k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
LONGTOWN MEMORIAL HALL COMMUNITY CENTRE FY2026	£113k	—	below	—	no doubt
CWMPARC COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2025	£296k	—	below	—	no doubt
WHICKHAM COMMUNITY CENTRE FY2025	£39k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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