MERE AND DISTRICT DAY CENTRE

Registered charity 1207117 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ROSEMARY GODDARD CENTRE

The Mere and District Day Centre is an independent charity which provides a safe and caring place for older people to meet on Mondays and Fridays throughout the year. They enjoy a range of stimlulating activities, together with a hot lunch. Most of our guests live locally to Mere or the surrounding villages, but some come from further afield if they have no provision in their own area.

Objects

THE CIO’S OBJECTS ARE TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF OLDER PEOPLE IN AND AROUND MERE, WHO ARE IN DANGER OF ISOLATION AND LONELINESS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PROVIDING A SAFE PLACE TO MEET, WITH A NUTRITIOUS LUNCH AND STIMULATING ACTIVITIES.

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: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £5,537 for the year ending 31 March 2026, with total funds increasing from £22,461 to £27,998. The trustees aim to maintain reserves close to one year's costs, with a designated minimum of £7,200, and the current unrestricted cash balance of £27,997 exceeds this target. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters were found during the examination of the accounts.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2025) to "above" (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.

• 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

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Wiltshire Community Lottery — “We also benefit from the Wiltshire Community Lottery .” (source page)

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jennifer Jane Masonchair
• Frank Marshall
• Julia Cole
• Peter Anthony Gane
• Simon Moon · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Dorset · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CAPE COMMUNITY CARE DAY CENTRE.

• CAPE COMMUNITY CARE DAY CENTRE income £136k
• ASCOT DISTRICT DAY CENTRE TRUST income £143k
• DUNMOW DAY CENTRE income £44k
• GROVE DAY CENTRE FOR THE ELDERLY income £43k
• CHIPPING BARNET SENIORS DAY CENTRE income £72k
• THE OVER DAY CENTRE ASSOCIATION income £170k

Side by side with its peers

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