WOOLAVINGTON NEW VILLAGE HALL

Registered charity 278159 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides a venue for a wide range of regular activities organised by local groups and individuals as well as well as being a meeting place and a venue for social events.

Objects

A VILLAGE HALL FOR THE USE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF WOOLAVINGTON 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 CONDITION OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: PARISH OF WOOLAVINGTON

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£43k

Latest spending

£40k

Registered

1979

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is corrupted and unreadable, preventing any analysis of the charity's financial health or operational status.

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.

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From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/09/2025

Volunteers: 5
Government income: £10,794 — grants £10,794 (2); 25% of the £42,625 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/09/2024

Volunteers: 10

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/09/2023

Volunteers: 10
Government income: £13,610 — grants £13,610 (3); 40% of the £34,269 total gross income on the same return

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

Trustees · trustee networks

EDWIN MARSHchair · trustee of 2 other charities
ALAN THOMPSON
Doris Marsh
FRANCES cHAMPION
Jane Warren
Jean Manning
Michael John Bowden
Monica Retford
Penny Glew

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/09/2025	£43k	£40k
30/09/2024	£36k	£36k
30/09/2023	£34k	£33k
30/09/2022	£24k	£23k
30/09/2021	£23k	£10k

Common questions

Is WOOLAVINGTON NEW VILLAGE HALL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The provided document is corrupted and unreadable, preventing any analysis of the charity's financial health or operational status.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
Somerset Community Foundation	29/08/2023	£10k	Contribution towards energy efficiency upgrades in a Sedgemoor village hall
Somerset Community Foundation	18/01/2021	£1k	UPGRADE AND RELOCATE EXISTING FIRE ALARM CONTROL PANEL
The National Lottery Community Fund	22/10/2007	£10k	Upgrade & Improvement to Woolavington Village Hall

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

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
WOOLAVINGTON NEW VILLAGE HALL	£43k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BEAFORD VILLAGE HALL FY2025	£30k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
STALBRIDGE VILLAGE HALL FY2026	£42k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
WOOTTON VILLAGE HALL FY2024	£14k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
EAST CLANDON VILLAGE HALL FY2025	£34k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
ALBRIGHTON VILLAGE HALL FY2026	£78k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.