BORWICK & PRIEST HUTTON WAR MEMORIAL HALL

Registered charity 1197898 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a Community Hall serving the villages of Borwick and Priest Hutton and a wider catchment in North Lancashire.

Objects

THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A VILLAGE HALL FOR THE USE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF BORWICK, THE PARISH OF PRIEST HUTTON AND THE SURRPOUNDING NEIGHBOURHOODS WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS,INCLUDING USE FOR: MEETINGS, LECTURES AND CLASSES, AND OTHER FORMS OF RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR 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: Lancaster, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a small profit from entertainments but recorded a net operating deficit of £52 for the year, with unrestricted income of £12,445 against unrestricted expenditure of £12,506. Restricted income was £43,840 against restricted expenditures of £49,378. The trustees note that net energy costs have reduced significantly due to new infrastructure, and reserves are held in interest-bearing accounts to meet future costs and contingencies.

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 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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2023 (received 21/02/2024, 16 days after the 05/02/2024 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Roy Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• ERIC ROONEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kenneth Dunn
• Nigel David Adams
• Richard John Mellor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Steven Vaughan

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Side by side with its peers

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