ST SAMPSON'S CENTRE

Registered charity 1198921 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide a warm and welcoming space with daily activities such as music, games afternoons, dancing, and speakers. We run a cafe providing low cost, high quality hot and cold food.

Objects

THE PROVISION OF A CENTRE WHICH WILL PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PERSONS IN AND AROUND YORK, WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES AS AFORESAID BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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 reported an excess of expenditure over income of £5,276 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds to £133,415. Unrestricted reserves stood at £132,511, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet unexpected costs and maintain the building, aligning with their policy of holding six months of normal expenditure. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters were identified during the examination of the financial statements.

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
• 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
• Investing charity funds 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

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Ormondroyd
• Graham Hutchinson
• Jacqueline Clerkin
• MICHAEL CHARLES FOX · trustee of 3 other charities
• Martin Robert Kirby

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

Operates in: City Of York

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AFGHAN EKTA CULTURAL/RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY CENTRE.

• AFGHAN EKTA CULTURAL/RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY CENTRE income £1.4m
• STOCKWELL PARK ESTATE COMMUNITY TRUST LTD income £363k
• ST PAULS (SPENNYMOOR) CENTRE LTD income £250k
• HAMPSTEAD COMMUNITY ACTION LIMITED income £421k
• MOORDOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £126k
• CITY PRAISE CENTRE CIO income £763k

Side by side with its peers

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