HODDESDON AND DISTRICT OLD PEOPLE'S WELFARE COMMITTEE

Registered charity 214137 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity acts as a managing committee for two halls. These halls are used for various clubs mainly for older persons. We have now started letting the halls be used for youth clubs and to learn ballroom dancing.

Objects

PROMOTING AND ASSISTING THE GENERAL GOOD OF ALL PEOPLE WITHIN THE DISTRICT OF HODDESDON BY ASSISTING THE WORK OF STATUTORY AUTHORITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS.

Area of benefit: HODDESDON

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 · Disability · Religious Activities · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £16,311, resulting in an increase in cash funds to £51,722. The trustees report that the charity has no employees and is managed by volunteer members, with no trustees receiving remuneration. While a major refurbishment lottery bid was unsuccessful, the charity has revised its plans to proceed in phases.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Gloverchair
• Dr Christopher Waddington · trustee of 1 other charity
• MR TERRY DAY

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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