H. O. ROE CHARITY

Registered charity 1190706 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity manages and maintains the buildings known as the Roecroft centre and associated house as a community centre for the benefit of Stotfold residents

Objects

(1) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, STOTFOLD AND THE SURROUNDING AREA FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE HOLDING OF PRAYER MEETINGS, LECTURES, PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS, PRODUCING AND/OR DISTRIBUTING LITERATURE ON CHRISTIANITY TO ENLIGHTEN OTHERS ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. (2) TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, STOTFOLD 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.IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER: TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN OR MANAGE OR CO-OPERATE WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUCH A CENTRE FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE CHARITY IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS.

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Recreation · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that operating income exceeded expenditure by £663 for the year. The charity ended the year with cash reserves of £73,543, an increase from £72,880 in the previous year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev William Thomas Brittchair · trustee of 5 other charities
• ELIZABETH JANE HYDE · trustee of 5 other charities
• Jennifer Bennett · trustee of 4 other charities
• Patrick Joseph Partington Harris
• STEPHEN WILLIAM HAYES · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Central Bedfordshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).