LYTCHETT MINSTER & UPTON BEACON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1182444 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of facilities & services to allow inhabitants to meet & take part in social interaction via clubs, activities & events such as drama, dance instruction, concerts, produce shows & others. Space will be offered for hire for private parties & functions. To act as an umbrella & source of help & advice for groups undertaking social & cultural activities (e.g Community Art Festival, Carnival)

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:3.1 TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AGE, DISABILITY, NATIONALITY, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND WELL-BEING AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF ENHANCING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS;3.2 TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE COMMUNITY CENTRE AND ANY OTHER PROPERTIES IT HOLDS OR LEASES (WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY OR OTHER PERSON OR BODY) IN FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTS;3.3 TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED.

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: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds stood at £79,640.98 with no fixed assets or current liabilities reported. The committee report notes that a full audit was not required by members, and the accounts were prepared from records supplied to the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Tibbs Accounting Services. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints 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
• 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

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 01/01/2023 (received 06/12/2023, 35 days after the 01/11/2023 due date); year ending 31/07/2020 (received 05/10/2021, 127 days after the 31/05/2021 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Talbot Village trust — “One from Talbot Village trust £7,700” (source page)
• Turbary Trust — “part funded also by Turbary Trust £1,563” (source page)
• Awards for all from the lottery — “and £10K from Awards for all from the lottery.” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lynn Sandra Wrightchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• CAROL TILLING
• James Ronald Burns M.Sc.
• Mabel Fraser
• PENNY BROWN
• RICHARD TAZEWELL BSC MA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Suzanne Waters BA hons

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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