HYTHE AND DIBDEN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 267994 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide facilities to support social welfare, recreation and leisure time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life for the inhabitants of Hythe & Dibden. To secure the establishment of a Community Centre and to maintain and manage such a Centre for activities in furtherance of the Association's objectives.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF HYTHE AND DIBDEN AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR OF POLITICAL RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND INHABITANTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: DIBDEN AND NEIGHBOURHOOD

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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Registered contact address: New Forest, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at an expenditure excess of £4,086 for the year ended 31 December 2025, a reduction from the £6,326 excess in 2024. Free reserves (General Fund) decreased to £23,319 from £27,405 in the prior year. The Treasurer's report notes that while the overspend was less than the previous year, increasing income is necessary to address the ongoing deficit.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 19/11/2023, 19 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTINE MARY WHITE
• Corinne Diane Evans
• SHEILA REEVES

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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