CHELTENHAM TOWN COMMUNITY TRUST

Registered charity 1180210 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

A charity set up to benefit the people of Gloucestershire by providing and assisting with sports participation; physical and mental health and well being; education; and social welfare

Objects

TO ASSIST AND PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES TO PLAY SPORT WHATEVER THEIR ABILITY OR BACKGROUND. TO ASSIST AND PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR PEOPLE TO BE PHYSICALLY ACTIVE AND TO LEAD HEALTHIER LIFESTYLES.TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND TO PRESERVE AND PROMOTE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING THROUGH HEALTHY RECREATION.TO ADVANCE AND ASSIST IN ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE.TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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 total income was £442,194 and total resources expended were £447,123, resulting in a net expenditure of £4,929 for the year. Unrestricted funds decreased from £258,249 to £253,320, while the charity maintains a reserves policy to cover twelve months of wages and administration costs. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and the accounts accorded with those records.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cheltenham Town Community Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PAULA LESLEY BALDWINchair
• Beccy Andrews
• David Craig Spencer Bloxham
• Gareth Mark Edmundson · trustee of 1 other charity
• PAUL ROBERT GODFREY
• PAUL SMITH
• Peter David Howard Jubb

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DEESIDE COMMUNITY TRUST.

• DEESIDE COMMUNITY TRUST income £599k
• HARTLEPOOL UNITED COMMUNITY SPORTS FOUNDATION income £199k
• Kettering Town F.C. Community Trust income £157k
• KESWICK COMMUNITY RUGBY TRUST LIMITED income £330k
• EXETER CITY COMMUNITY TRUST income £2.5m
• Stockport County Community Trust income £976k

Side by side with its peers

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