CENTRAL COUNCIL OF CHURCH BELL RINGERS

Registered charity 270036 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CCCBR, THE CENTRAL COUNCIL

We bring ringers together, and represent them nationally and internationally, to promote public awareness of church bells and change ringing. We provide advice and assistance and information to church authorities and ringing societies. We assist in the provision, restoration and maintenance of church bells.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE PRACTICE, HERITAGE AND APPRECIATION OF BELL RINGING AS AN ENJOYABLE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL EXERCISE AND UNIQUE PERFORMING ART FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF BOTH CHURCH AND COMMUNITY.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND EIRE

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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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased to £397,802 from £419,257 in the prior year, with unrestricted reserves falling to £145,125. The Trustees note that cash reserves were tapped to meet running costs after the surplus from the pandemic era was exhausted, but confirm that assets and expected income are adequate to meet commitments for the foreseeable future.

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 4 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Tina Rae Stoecklinchair
• Alison Lesley Edmonds
• Beverly Faber
• Ernest William De Legh-Runciman
• Jason Lee Carter · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Ian Harrison
• Prof Ian Roulstone
• Victoria Louise Chapman

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

Operates in: Australia · Canada · France · Ireland · Italy · Kenya · New Zealand · Northern Ireland · Scotland · South Africa · United States · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

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