FOXHALL CENTRE

Registered charity 1171154 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FOXHALL CENTRE LAVENDER TRUST, THE FOXHALL CENTRE

The Foxhall Centre is a centre providing day services for older people living in Ipswich and the surrounding area. It provides essential services which are greatly valued by its current members It provides a ground level day centre facility which includes facilities for a range of services to support older people and who live within the local community to remain independent as long as possible

Objects

TO RELIEVE ELDERLY PEOPLE AND THOSE WITH A DISABILITY RESIDENT IN IPSWICH AND SURROUNDING AREAS WHO ARE IN NEED, BY THE PROVISION OF A DAY CENTRE FOR SUCH PERSONS, AND ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES CALCULATED TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PERSONS.TO PROMOTE AND ASSIST THE GENERAL GOOD OF ALL ELDERLY PEOPLE BY ASSISTING THE WORK OF STATUTORY AUTHORITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ENGAGED IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL RECREATION, DEVELOPING PHYSICAL IMPROVEMENT, FURTHERING HEALTH, RELIEVING POVERTY, DISTRESS OR SICKNESS.TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SICKNESS AND POOR HEALTH AMONGST ELDERLY PEOPLE

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 that the charity reported a surplus on unrestricted funds of £6,470 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £180,443. Although the Chair noted that expenditure had exceeded income at times due to increased staff costs, the charity maintains sufficient financial reserves to continue operations unaffected. The trustees consider the charity’s financial position at the balance sheet date to be satisfactory.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• IAN MEIGHchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gordon Low
• Jana Burton
• Tracey Murrell
• Victoria Hosking

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Hockley and Hawkwell Day Centre.

• Hockley and Hawkwell Day Centre income £139k
• FOXHILL AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £135k
• THE FOXTON CENTRE income £3.6m
• CASTLE HILL COMMUNITY CENTRE TRUST income £174k
• THE HUNTER CENTRE income £240k
• ST MARYS CARE CENTRE income £162k

Side by side with its peers

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