PADDOCK WOOD U3A

Registered charity 1179959 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The U3A members share their knowledge and talents freely with each other in informal learning interest groups. They create their own opportunities to learn in the ways that suit members best. As a result, members contribute to a wide range of engaging and stimulating interest groups in an atmosphere of mutual support and companionship. Members study not for qualifications but for enjoyment.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR, THE EDUCATION OF OLDER PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO ARE RETIRED FROM FULL TIME WORK, BY ALL MEANS INCLUDING ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES CONDUCIVE TO LEARNING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, IN PADDOCK WOOD AND ITS SURROUNDING LOCALITY.

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's financial position is healthy, having generated a small surplus in general expenditure for the year ended 30 June 2025. The charity holds £9,000 in reserves, held in a deposit account, aimed at covering unforeseen contingencies and supporting interest groups. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention regarding the accounting records or the accuracy of the accounts.

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 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barry William Ednie
• George Trevor Carney
• Jenny Carney
• Linda Fearnley
• Margaret Ellen Bourne
• Margaret Warner
• Michael James Smith
• NEIL MACKINLAY LYNN
• Steven John Hann
• Trevor George Sampson

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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