ELSON COMMUNITY LIBRARY AND HUB

Registered charity 1192590 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide a library service to the community. Provide events and activities for the community for all ages. Provide a community building for volunteer and professional services to provide services and advice to the community. Provide a safe building within the community.

Objects

1. TO PROVIDE A SAFE AND WELCOMING ENVIRONMENT WHERE THE LOCAL COMMUNITY CAN FREELY ACCESS LITERATURE AND TECHNOLOGY. 2. TO ESTABLISH A COMMUNITY LIBRARY HUB WHERE GROUPS AND RESIDENTS CAN ENGAGE IN HOBBIES AND INTERESTS. 3. TO PROVIDE SCHOOLS, RESIDENTS AND ORGANISATIONS ACCESS TO A LEARNING CENTRE.4. PROVIDE A VENUE FOR COMMUNITY GROUPS AND EVENTS.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Gosport, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased from £64,438 to £73,581, reflecting a net incoming resource of £9,143 for the year. The charity notes that the loss of lottery funding will further test its finances, although it has adjusted fees to compensate. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention regarding the accounts.

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 4 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Karen Denise Hutchisonchair
• David Eugen Sekules
• JAMES HUTCHISON
• JANE HENRY
• Janice Almond
• Linda Hall
• Richard Philip Earle

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

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

• ELBWO income £44k
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• CATTERICK, RICHMOND AND COLBURN COMMUNITY LIBRARIES income £75k
• LEICESTER COMMUNITY ASSIST income £46k
• THE OLD LIBRARY income £31k
• MERLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £56k

Side by side with its peers

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