WINDMILL COMMUNITY GARDENS MARGATE

Registered charity 1194612 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

WCGM will run activities, events and learning opportunities for the whole community that promote and support the development of skills, knowledge and confidence in chemical free food growing and healthy eating. School visits, work experience placements for unemployed, volunteering and well-being activities will be delivered from our Community Garden and Market Garden sites in Dane Valley, Margate.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) AREI)TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THANET 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.II)TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE SUBJECTS OF HORTICULTURE, HEALTHY EATING, CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND IMPROVEMENT OF WILDLIFE DIVERSITY, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING IN WINDMILL COMMUNITY GARDENS MARGATE.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £78,658 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total funds increasing to £90,737. Unrestricted reserves stood at £49,036, exceeding the stated policy target of £40,000. The accounts state there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gordon Hattchair
• Clare Lewis-Holder
• Elizabeth Potts
• Martin Millbank
• Melanie Sarah Watts
• Nadia Salman Abdulrasool Ahmed Khalef
• Philip Gregory Smiley
• Philippa ALice Hunt

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

Operates in: Kent

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Government & lottery funding

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