FORDCOMBE VILLAGE HALL

Registered charity 235361 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides facilities for pre-school group and other local village organisations.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS LIVING IN THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF FORDCOMBE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF POLITICAL RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS.

Area of benefit: ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF FORDCOMBE

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 · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Get email alerts

Latest income

£44k

Latest spending

£40k

Registered

1964

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a small surplus of £3,732 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £43,648.50 against expenditure of £39,915.73. Per the summary of balances, net assets increased to £345,386.56, held primarily in bank savings accounts. The trustees report that the hall operated satisfactorily with healthy demand from users.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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.

Risk 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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 10

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 12

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 12

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

Brent Gebbie
Matthew Holgate
Peter william crabb
Rachel Clare Whitley
Tara Davies

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£44k	£40k
31/12/2024	£39k	£41k
31/12/2023	£143k	£71k
31/12/2022	£39k	£107k
31/12/2021	£169k	£487k

Common questions

Is FORDCOMBE VILLAGE HALL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a small surplus of £3,732 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £43,648.50 against expenditure of £39,915.73. Per the summary of balances, net assets increased to £345,386.56, held primarily in bank savings accounts. The trustees report that the hall operated satisfactorily with healthy demand from users. 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	31/01/2020	£90k	Fordcombe Village Hall Rebuild

Charities like this

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

NOTGROVE VILLAGE HALL income £30k
COPTHORNE VILLAGE HALL income £25k
SWANMORE VILLAGE HALL income £58k
VILLAGE HALL income £38k
VILLAGE HALL BARKHAM income £13k
THE VILLAGE HALL income £25k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
FORDCOMBE VILLAGE HALL	£44k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
NOTGROVE VILLAGE HALL FY2026	£30k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
COPTHORNE VILLAGE HALL FY2025	£25k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
SWANMORE VILLAGE HALL FY2025	£58k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
VILLAGE HALL FY2026	£38k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
VILLAGE HALL BARKHAM FY2024	£13k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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