THE FARNHAM COMMON COMMUNITY LIBRARY

Registered charity 1189181 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Objects of the CIO are to advance the education of the public by the provision of a lending libraryservice and such other events and activities for the education of the residents of Farnham Common andthe surrounding area, as the Trustees deem appropriate.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROVISION OF A LENDING LIBRARY SERVICE AND SUCH OTHER EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE RESIDENTS OF FARNHAM COMMON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA AS THE TRUSTEES DEEM APPROPRIATE

Area of benefit: FARNHAM COMMON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

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 · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £174,033, with £120,000 designated for future running costs and £54,033 available as general reserves. The trustees are confident that sufficient funds are available to operate the library for the period of the current agreement and beyond, despite noting there is no certainty regarding future County Council funding levels.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/04/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Pictonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Barbara Richards
• Brian English
• Carol Williams · trustee of 1 other charity
• Glenys Anne Stone
• Janet Elizabeth Stone
• Maria Hall
• Nicky Hamblin
• Pauline Jones
• Vivien Hopkirk

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FALLOWFIELD LIBRARY & COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE.

• FALLOWFIELD LIBRARY & COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE income £178k
• THE COLDEN COMMON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £123k
• FARNHAM LIONS CLUB (CIO) income £126k
• Libraries Connected income £2.7m
• Forum CIO income £2.1m
• Barnham and Eastergate Community Trust income £281k

Side by side with its peers

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