ST LEONARDS AND ST IVES VILLAGE HALL

Registered charity 270967 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of a village hall for use of the inhabitants of the Parish of St Leonards and St Ives.

Objects

A VILLAGE HALL FOR THE USE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF ST LEONARDS AND ST IVES IN THE COUNTY OF DORSET WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS INCLUDING USE FOR MEETINGS, LECTURES AND CLASSES AND FOR OTHER FORMS OF RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: THE PARISH OF ST. LEONARDS AND ST IVES

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: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £62,288 against a policy target of 13 weeks of operational costs, indicating reserves are above the stated minimum. The independent examiner confirmed no material matters were found, and the trustees reported no major concerns regarding financial viability for the next 12 months.

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 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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 31/03/2023 (received 14/03/2024, 43 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Low Carbon Dorset — “Our project has been part funded by Low Carbon Dorset as part of the European Regional Development Fund” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• Margaret Goringechair
• Dorothy Tuck
• Gillian Rix
• Jane Adams
• Karen Stidston
• Marie Drake
• Myra Anne Barter
• Sarah Morris

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NEWBALD VILLAGE HALL.

• NEWBALD VILLAGE HALL income £39k
• CHAPEL SAINT LEONARDS VILLAGE HALL income £52k
• LLANGOED AND DISTRICT VILLAGE HALL TRUST income £87k
• VILLAGE HALL income £38k
• COLNBROOK VILLAGE HALL TRUST income £56k
• HARWELL VILLAGE HALL income £51k

Side by side with its peers

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