ADASTRA HALL HASSOCKS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1201464 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ADASTRA HALL

Operation of a community centre, Adastra Hall

Objects

(A) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF HASSOCKS AND NEIGHBOURHOOD WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND INHABITANTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE. (B) TO ESTABLISH OR TO SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE SUCH A CENTRE FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE ASSOCIATION.

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 FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity experienced significant expenditure on major construction projects, leading to periods where it was 'very much hand-to-mouth.' While income from grants, donations, and hall hires has increased, the trustees emphasize the need to rebuild reserves to ensure the charity can maintain business as usual in future events.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2025) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Patrick Hobbschair
• Barbara Irene O'Rourke
• DAVID JAMES FRANCIS FENNELLY
• Debra Anne Harris
• Lara Ann Thompson
• Stella Dorothy Jenner
• Susan Margaret Hatton · trustee of 1 other charity
• linda hawkins

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE GREIG HALL.

• THE GREIG HALL income £151k
• ASHTEAD PEACE MEMORIAL HALL income £122k
• THE AZELIA HALL CHARITY income £107k
• ADWICK PARK COMMUNITY AND SPORTS ACADEMIES CIO income £129k
• HITCHIN TOWN HALL GYMNASIUM AND WORKMAN'S HALL TRUST income £106k
• THE SCOTTER VILLAGE HALL ASSOCIATION income £348k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.