HEMPSTEAD VILLAGE HALL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

Registered charity 252744 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEMPSTEAD VILLAGE HALL

The Hall provides space and facilities for community services and activities.

Objects

TO MANAGE THE HEMPSTEAD VILLAGE HALL FOR THE BENEFIT AND WELFARE OF THE PEOPLE OF HEMPSTEAD

Area of benefit: HEMPSTEAD

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

£38k

Latest spending

£50k

Registered

1967

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintains a reserves policy target of £15,000 to cover emergencies and maintenance. The filing notes that the committee provides services on a voluntary basis and employs a caretaker and cleaner for daily servicing. No specific unrestricted reserves figure or total income/expenditure is provided in the text to assess overall financial health.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £15,000 held in a bond to cover emergency situations that may arise and to ensure maintenance of the hall can continue should our income from hirers be prevented

“It is management policy to maintain a balance on unrestricted funds which equates to £15,000 held in a bond to cover emergency situations that may arise and to ensure maintenance of the hall can continue should our income from hirers be prevented.” — page 4

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
Conflicting interests
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Trustees · trustee networks

SARAH CROSSchair
ANN SALTER
Anne Hookway
DAVID FULLER
David Gorf
Maureen Chipperfield
Natalie Jarvis
STEPHEN MANNING · trustee of 1 other charity
VALERIE GORF
Vivien Fuller

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

Operates in: Medway

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£38k	£50k
31/03/2024	£41k	£48k
31/03/2023	£34k	£24k
31/03/2022	£31k	£13k
31/03/2021	£14k	£22k

Common questions

Is HEMPSTEAD VILLAGE HALL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity maintains a reserves policy target of £15,000 to cover emergencies and maintenance. The filing notes that the committee provides services on a voluntary basis and employs a caretaker and cleaner for daily servicing. No specific unrestricted reserves figure or total income/expenditure is provided in the text to assess overall financial health. 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
Postcode Lottery	02/11/2023	£5k	Millionaire Street 2023 10w4