BRAINTREE RECREATION CIO

Registered charity 1193648 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity provides facilities for recreation and sports for use by the People of Braintree. This comprises sports fields, hard courts and Gym areas. The Charity currently hosts several local football teams, an armature boxing club and a martial arts club on a regular basis.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BRAINTREE & BOCKING AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.

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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Registered contact address: Braintree, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reports total funds of £20,269, comprising £15,072 in unrestricted reserves and £5,197 in restricted funds. The trustees' policy aims to maintain unrestricted reserves of no less than two months of gross payments, a target the current reserves fall below. The accounts were subject to an independent examination which reported no material matters requiring attention.

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2022 (received 08/03/2023, 31 days after the 05/02/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Smith Farquharchair
• Donna Farquhar · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Mark Doughty
• Paul McQuillan
• SHAUN DEDMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Steven Robert Thompson

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CRICK COMMUNITY SPORTS CENTRE.

• CRICK COMMUNITY SPORTS CENTRE income £30k
• BRAINTREE DISTRICT MENCAP CIO income £208k
• THE WALLINGFORD SPORTS TRUST income £615k
• FC HARTLEPOOL income £293k
• BEIGHTON WELFARE RECREATION GROUND income £36k
• BRAITHWAITE INSTITUTE income £52k

Side by side with its peers

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