SESSAY COMMUNITY TRUST

Registered charity 1171804 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Multi-use Village Hall supporting activities for all ages including social clubs,Rural arts activities, 10 cricket teams across gender and age groups and bowls clubs.

Objects

The objectives of the CIO are to run a village hall and provide and maintain a recreation and sports ground and other community facilities and projects in the interests of social welfare, with the aim of improving the conditions of life of the inhabitants of Sessay and Hutton Sessay. To provide appropriate help and support to the poor and needy of the Parish.

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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Latest income

£109k

Latest spending

£19k

Registered

2017

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £409,627 against a policy of holding free reserves for financial flexibility. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern, with total incoming resources of £109,014 significantly exceeding total expenditure of £19,055 for the year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: free reserves to provide financial flexibility over the next financial period (held: £410k)

“The trustees have established the policy whereby the unrestricted funds not committed or invested in tangible fixed assets are held as general funds at such a level as there are free reserves to provide financial flexibility over the next financial period.” — page 4

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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Register events

Received assets from another charity (30/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Carole Marie Trowchair
COLIN DAVID SYERS
David Willoughby
Dennis John Ayling
Laura Jane Kirkbright Hudson
Peter Ernest Dale
Peter John Hawkins
Richard Anthony Lupson
WILLIAM GUY MUSGRAVE

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/09/2025	£109k	£19k
30/09/2024	£137k	£21k
30/09/2023	£50k	£25k
30/09/2022	£198k	£22k
30/09/2021	£0	£1k

Common questions

Is SESSAY COMMUNITY TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £409,627 against a policy of holding free reserves for financial flexibility. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern, with total incoming resources of £109,014 significantly exceeding total expenditure of £19,055 for the year. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	13/05/2024	£20k	Refurbishment of Sessay Village Hall
UK government	01/01/2024	£32k	Platinum Jubilee Village Halls Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund	21/10/2022	£10k	Improving the audio and visual experience for the users of Sessay Village Hall.

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
THE FAIRFIELD CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£20k
THE TRUE COLOURS TRUST	1	£10k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHARITY FOR RELIGIOUS AND OTHER PURPOSES.

CHARITY FOR RELIGIOUS AND OTHER PURPOSES income £29k
SALTFORD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £171k
CAPEL COMMUNITY TRUST income £222k
STANWAY VILLAGE HALL income £103k
WEMBDON VILLAGE HALL AND PLAYING FIELDS TRUST income £282k
NASH VILLAGE HALL income £113k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
SESSAY COMMUNITY TRUST	£109k	—	above	—	no doubt
CHARITY FOR RELIGIOUS AND OTHER PURPOSES FY2024	£29k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
SALTFORD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2026	£171k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
CAPEL COMMUNITY TRUST FY2025	£222k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
STANWAY VILLAGE HALL FY2024	£103k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
WEMBDON VILLAGE HALL AND PLAYING FIELDS TRUST FY2025	£282k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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