UMBERLEIGH VILLAGE HALL

Registered charity 280712 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

General charitable activities in local area comprising village hall for hire and fundraising events at hall.

Objects

FOR THE PURPOSES OF A VILLAGE HALL CENTRE AND PLAYING FIELD FOR THE USE OF UMBERLEIGH AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, AND IN PARTICULAR FOR 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 INHABITANTS OF THE BENEFICIAL AREA.

Area of benefit: UMBERLEIGH AND THE 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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources increased to £29,978 from £22,129 in the prior year, driven by a 54% rise in hall hire income and higher fundraising proceeds. Operating expenses were £27,569, resulting in a net income of £2,409 and an increase in unrestricted reserves by £2,665. The charity holds unrestricted funds of £22,129, with no stated reserves policy target disclosed in the filing.

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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Derek Pope
• Eileen Margaret Beer
• Fiona Moore
• Janet Cooper · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nigel Wilson Brown
• PETER GEOFFREY SHALLCROSS
• Paula Jane Alford
• Susan Pope
• Vanessa Lyn Buckpitt

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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