THE PALMER CENTRE

Registered charity 1183959 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Palmer Centre provides a Dementia Friendly Cafe service that is open to all from 8.30 a.m. to 2.00 p.m., Monday to Saturday, every week, well-being and other recreational activities for older people and a room hire service.

Objects

I. TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF THE ELDERLY AND PEOPLE WITH A DISABILITY, THEIR FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND CARERS, WITHIN CHEPSTOW AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES DIRECTED TOWARDS RELIEVING THEIR NEEDS IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE. II. TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF CHEPSTOW AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS.

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 reported a net outgoing resource of £10,534 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £25,756 to £15,222. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves stood at £10,495 and that no funds were in deficit, while noting ongoing cost pressures and plans to reduce running costs in the coming year.

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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER STUART FARLEYchair
• Ann Webb
• Christopher Eric McGonagle
• Cllr Penelope Anne Jones
• Colonel Robert Richardson-Aitken Retd.
• MARC LE PELTIER
• Michael John Gollop · trustee of 2 other charities
• Michael Jonathan Gunn McLannahan

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire · Monmouthshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE HUNTER CENTRE.

• THE HUNTER CENTRE income £240k
• THE HENHAYES CENTRE income £138k
• THE WESTWAY COMMUNITY AND WELL BEING CENTRE income £230k
• ST SAMPSON'S CENTRE income £201k
• ALZHEIMER'S & DEMENTIA SUPPORT SERVICES income £3.2m
• DARWEN OLD PEOPLES WELFARE ASSOCIATION income £254k

Side by side with its peers

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