BURWASH WEALD AND COMMON MEMORIAL FUND PLAYING FIELD

Registered charity 282296 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Sport , Community facility and Recreation

Objects

PUBLIC GROUND FOR THE PURPOSES AUTHORISED BY THE RECREATION GROUNDS ACT 1859.

Area of benefit: PARISH OF BURWASH

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rother, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained a solid financial position with net income increasing to £9,492 from £3,064 in the prior year. Total income rose to £26,801 while total expenses decreased to £24,130, resulting in positive retained earnings of £16,342. The trustees report that activities and income have continued to increase, supported by ongoing facility improvements.

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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Alan Elmsliechair
• Jan Macfarland
• Paul Hunt

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RECREATION GROUND.

• RECREATION GROUND income £48k
• NORTH MUSKHAM PLAYING FIELD income £92k
• GOSFORTH FIELDS SPORTS ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £475k
• THE SPORTS FIELD income £77k
• SOUTHWARK COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST income £259k
• GOREFIELD PLAYING FIELD ASSOCIATION income £100k

Side by side with its peers

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