COMMUNITY MANAGED LIBRARIES NATIONAL PEER NETWORK

Registered charity 1184488 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The promotion of the efficiency and effectiveness and the effective use of charitable resources of community libraries for the public benefit:Providing and co-ordinating the effective use of workshops, conferences and training activitiesProviding support to assist in the good governance and practice of community libraries in the delivery of servicesProviding a forum for shared learning

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARETHE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF CHARITABLE RESOURCES OF COMMUNITY LIBRARIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:1. PROVIDING AND CO-ORDINATING THE EFFECTIVE USE OF WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES;2. PROVIDING SUPPORT TO ASSIST IN THE GOOD GOVERNANCE AND PRACTICE OF COMMUNITY LIBRARIES IN THE DELIVERY OF SERVICES3. PROVIDING A FORUM FOR SHARED LEARNING AND NETWORKING

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 unrestricted reserves stood at £16,210, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of £50,000 required to cover a six-month period beyond the current grant end date. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern, noting that future activities will only be undertaken when funding has been secured.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• SUSAN JANE KERRchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Benjamin John Gould · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher John Lawrey CLARKE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jeremy Clynes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Margaret Adjaye
• Peter Ranken MBE
• Sarah Marissa Clothier
• Susan Elizabeth Wills

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Libraries Connected.

• Libraries Connected income £2.7m
• V22 COMMUNITIES income £529k
• LIBRARIES UNLIMITED SOUTH WEST income £9.4m
• THE SOCIETY OF COLLEGE, NATIONAL AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES income £769k
• MANCHESTER COMMUNITY CENTRAL income £2.2m
• PEER UK LTD income £263k

Side by side with its peers

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