SEEND TRUST

Registered charity 269973 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Operating the village Community Centre, improving its facilities and increasing its attraction for educational, recreational and entertainment opportunities to a wider range of participants from the local communities.

Objects

1. THE CONSERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE VILLAGE AND PARISH OF SEEND AND ITS SURROUNDINGS.2. TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF SEEND AND ITS SURROUNDINGS, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS. IN FURTHERANCE OF OBJECT 2 BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN OR MANAGE OR CO-OPERATE WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUCH A CENTRE FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE CHARITY IN FURTHERANCE OF THE THIS OBJECT.÷

Area of benefit: VILLAGE OF SEEND AND SURROUNDINGS

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted cash funds increased from £84,157 to £118,784 during the year, resulting in a net surplus of £34,626. The trustees maintain that reserves should be kept at the current level to meet future expenditure on the Community Centre premises. No specific unrestricted reserves policy target is stated in the document.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• THE RT HON SIR MATHEW ALEXANDER THORPEchair
• CHAIRMAN OF SEEND PARISH COUNCIL
• FRANCIS MICHAEL CHARLES GODDARD

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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