ANGUS BUCHANAN V C RECREATION GROUND

Registered charity 1198496 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of recreation ground, children's play area and space/activities for the general public including a building and bowling green etc

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF COLEFORD AND THE SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION 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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £15,588.02 at the end of the financial year, which the trustees consider roughly equivalent to their policy target of one year's expenditure. The charity reported a surplus for the year, with total receipts of £84,400.17 exceeding total expenditure of £78,131.07. The financial statements were prepared without an audit by an independent examiner.

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 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Angus Buchanan VC Recreation Ground (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Edward Dennis Barrowchair
• Clive Hooper · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Thomas Hart
• Douglas Roberts
• Malcolm Paterson
• Sarah Jane Cheese

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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