THE SNODLAND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 281788 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Activities include breakfast & after school clubs; Clubs for children: Dance, Grace & Movement and Sterondalls Dance Club. Adult exercise classes: Zumba, Yoga & 4 fitness groups. A boxing club & gym. Active retirement & Snodland Ladies Clubs. Short mat bowls club & 4 badminton clubs. Guitar lessons. Weekend hire of hall for various events. C & W music club. Weekly chapel. Football changing rooms

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF SNODLAND AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATIONG THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND INHABITANTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS. TO ESTABLISH OR TO SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE.

Area of benefit: SNODLAND AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

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 · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £10,177 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £70,707 and total expenditure of £60,530. Per the trustees' report, the charity remains financially stable with sufficient cash funds (£134,911) to meet all future commitments and ongoing maintenance costs.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures

Funders the charity credits

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

• Shortmat Bowls club — “Also, to the Shortmat Bowls club , who have operated from the Centre from the day it opened in 1987 and kindly donated the proceeds of their…” (source page)
• Vince and Joan O’Connell — “Finally, grateful thanks are due to Vince and Joan O’Connell for their kind donation of £100 on behalf of Saracens Gym.” (source page)
• Kestrel Home Improvements — “It was great therefore to receive the news that Kestrel Home Improvements – a company new to the High Street in Snodland – was willing to he…” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dilys Margaret Crookchair
• CHRISTOPHER HOWICK
• LINDA HOWICK

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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