NORTHCHURCH COMMUNITY CENTRE

Registered charity 1180455 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We operate the Northchurch Social Centre.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1) TO PROMOTE THE WELL-BEING OF THE RESIDENTS IN NORTHCHURCH AND SURROUNDING AREAS BY ASSOCIATING PUBLIC AUTHORITIES CONCERNED, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS, OTHER PARTIES AND RESIDENTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO FURTHER HEALTH, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL TRAINING AND RECREATION, AND SOCIAL, MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT, AND TO FOSTER A COMMUNITY SPIRIT FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THESE AND OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS.2) TO MAINTAIN, MANAGE AND DEVELOP THE COMMUNITY CENTRE (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE "CENTRE") OR TO CO-OPERATE WITH ANY LOCAL STATUTORY AUTHORITY, AUTHORITIES OR OTHER PARTIES IN THE COMMUNITY IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUCH A CENTRE, FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE ASSOCIATION AND ITS CONSTITUENT BODIES IN FURTHERANCE OF THE FOREGOING OBJECTS OR ANY OF THEM.

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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Registered contact address: Dacorum, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a deficit of £3,999 for the year, reducing total reserves to £272,434. Unrestricted reserves stood at £112,870, which the trustees consider slightly above their stated minimum target of £33,750. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/05/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gillian Austinchair
• ANDREW PAYNE
• Brian McGowan
• David John Terrace
• Therese Vanessa Kaplan
• Yvonne Larkins

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• NORTHGATE CHURCH TRUST income £270k
• NORTHCOURT CENTRE income £34k
• THE COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE income £77k
• PORTCHESTER FREE CHURCH TRUST income £149k
• NORTHBROOK COMMUNITY TRUST income £226k
• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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