COTTINGLEY TOWN HALL CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE

Registered charity 1186614 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Primary activities - to promote religious, moral & secular knowledge in Cottingley providing for this, & purposes beneficial to the local community, the Town Hall premises where church services are held, lunches/snacks provided & groups such as keep fit, dog training, NCT, history society, bible study, women's guild & young theatre group hire rooms at generous rates for the use of their members.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE TRUST SHALL BE TO PROMOTE RELIGIOUS, MORAL AND SECULAR KNOWLEDGE IN COTTINGLEY AND TO PROVIDE THE TOWN HALL BUILDING FOR THESE PURPOSES AND OTHER PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY SUCH AS THE PROVISION OF MEETINGS IN RELATION TO WIDER SOCIAL SUBJECTS. ANY RELIGIOUS SERVICES WILL CONTINUE TO BE PROTESTANT NON-DENOMINATIONAL SERVICES.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £78,159 at the end of the period, with a specific reserve account balance of £65,994.56 held as a contingency. The trustees confirmed the financial position was satisfactory, noting that the reserve fund generates interest income while current account funds are maintained for everyday expenditure.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Hilary Barbara Charnockchair
• ANDREA TAYLOR
• BARONESS ELLEN MARGARET EATON DBE DL · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN GOODE
• KATHLEEN MCGUINNESS
• MICHAEL TAYLOR
• Martin Francis John Holdsworth
• Peter Earp · trustee of 3 other charities
• Raymond Kingsley Firth
• THOMAS WILLIAM STEAD
• Victoria Frances Whitehead

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

Operates in: Bradford City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THUNDERSLEY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH income £574k
• TOTTERIDGE AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY CENTRE LTD income £356k
• KETTERING CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £67k
• TANG HALL COMMUNITY CENTRE income £178k
• THE COMMUNITY CHURCH IN THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND income £331k
• COLLINGHAM COMMUNITY TRUST income £31k

Side by side with its peers

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