MERE LECTURE HALL TRUST

Registered charity 202620 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of 3 Halls, stage, committee room, kitchen and toilets for the advantage of the people of Mere, in Wiltshire, and to promote spiritual, intellectual and social activities, i.e. Plays, films, sporting, medical and social activities, lectures and public meetings. Annual grants are also offered to organisations and local charities within 8 mile radius of Mere.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE SPIRITUAL MORAL INTELLECTUAL OR SOCIAL WELFARE ALONG LINES NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NON-CONFORMING CHRISTIANITY OR OF THE PROMOTION OF TEMPERANCE AMONGST THE INHABITANTS. THE PROMOTION OF SIMILAR CHARITABLE OBJECTS ELSEWHERE.

Area of benefit: MERE AND DISTRICT

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust reported a net profit of £31,922 for the year ended 30th June 2025, an increase from the previous year's £19,994. The Trust holds unrestricted net assets of £261,339, financed by its capital account, indicating a stable financial position without disclosed reserves policy targets or material uncertainties.

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 3 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLES RUTTERchair
• ANDREW BRISTOW
• ANDREW REES · trustee of 1 other charity
• BRIAN JAMES WATTS
• Caroline Nichola Morton
• Christopher Wood
• David Norman Lamb
• GEORGE JEANS · trustee of 2 other charities
• HELEN WATTS
• JANE HURD
• Jennifer Mary Wilding
• MARY WHITE
• Michael John Durkee
• Peter Manning
• Sandra Jayne Catley
• Simon Rutter
• Stephen John Harwood Fletcher

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

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