Church House (Hitchin) Trust

Registered charity 255448 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHARITY OF EDITH ELISABETH MARIE WILSHERE, CHARITY OF EDITH ELIZABETH MARIE WILSHERE, CHURCH HOUSE - HITCHIN, CHURCH HOUSE CHARITY · filing overdue (register status)

The maintenance and improvement of the property, Church House, Hitchin, offices for the Vicar of St Mary's Church and the parish of Hitchin and to provide a hall for the use of the Parish, other charities and voluntary bodies.

Objects

THE MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PROPERTY, ST. MARY'S CHURCH HALL,

Area of benefit: ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. MARY, HITCHIN

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

Causes: Education/training · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Hertfordshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted General Funds alongside restricted funds for furniture and repairs. The trustees maintain a risk review policy and hold investments in approved funds, noting that investment values increased by a net amount of £5,391 during the year. The charity's freehold property is not valued in the accounts, with costs of fixtures and equipment written off in the year of expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 06/06/2025, 218 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 09/04/2024, 161 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 16/11/2022, 16 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Elizabeth Marguerite Senechal MA · trustee of 2 other charities
• Anne Elizabeth Marguerite Senechal MA · trustee of 2 other charities
• Elizabeth Cranfield
• Rev Christopher Bunce
• Stephen Halpin · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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