PORTHTOWAN VILLAGE HALL

Registered charity 226962 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of facilities for local community clubs, educational activities and recreation, and to provide a space for community activities and events.

Objects

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL TRAINING & RECREATION AND SOCIAL MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF READING AND RECREATION ROOMS, LIBRARY, LECTURES, CLASSES, RECREATIONS AND ENTERTAINMENTS OF OTHERWISE AS MAY BE FOUND EXPEDIENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: VILLAGE OF PORTHOWAN.

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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Latest income

£36k

Latest spending

£25k

Registered

1963

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an operating surplus of £4,061 and an overall surplus for the year of £11,098, driven by increased income from hall hires and community events. The trustees consider the financial position satisfactory, with total unrestricted cash funds of £54,006, of which £35,000 is designated as a maintenance reserve for future repairs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: adequate reserves to safeguard the long-term future of the charity and to provide funding for significant repairs and renewals (held: £54k)

“The trustees recognise the need to maintain adequate reserves to safeguard the long-term future of the charity and to provide funding for significant repairs and renewals. At 30 September 2025 the charity held unrestricted cash funds of £54,006 and the trustees have designated £35,000 of these funds as maintenance reserves” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

Anna Shekhdar
Jeffrey Edmund Cruz
Joanne Everill-Taylor
Nick Barry
Oliver Girvan Riddett

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

Operates in: Cornwall

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/09/2025	£36k	£25k
30/09/2024	£25k	£22k
30/09/2023	£25k	£20k
30/09/2022	£19k	£18k
30/09/2021	£28k	£12k

Common questions

Is PORTHTOWAN VILLAGE HALL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated an operating surplus of £4,061 and an overall surplus for the year of £11,098, driven by increased income from hall hires and community events. The trustees consider the financial position satisfactory, with total unrestricted cash funds of £54,006, of which £35,000 is designated as a maintenance reserve for future repairs. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	26/04/2006	£5k	purchase tables etc