MADGINFORD HALL

Registered charity 284208 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEARSTED NEW COMMUNITY HALL

Provides a meeting place for village organisations and groups for various activities. Provides a hall for use of local residents for social activities including weddings and parties.

Objects

A VILLAGE HALL FOR THE USE OF THE RESIDENTS OF BEARSTED, THURNHAM, AND OTHAM PARISHES WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, INCLUDING THE USE FOR MEETINGS, LECTURES, CLASSES, OR FOR OTHER FORMS OF RECREATION AND LEISURE ACTIVITIES, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID RESIDENTS.

Area of benefit: THE PARISHES OF BEARSTED, THURNHAM AND OTHAM

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 · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a loss of £9,927.51 for the year, with funds shrinking due to high energy costs and a declining financial position. However, the trustees report that the organization remains in a strong position with considerable reserves, supported by a current asset total of £58,958.77.

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 07/03/2024, 36 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 25/02/2023, 25 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 25/04/2022, 84 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carolyn Wilson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christine Allcott
• Clive English · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marie Quarman

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• FINSTOCK VILLAGE HALL income £27k
• GREAT BARFORD VILLAGE HALL income £67k
• THE LLANGYNIDR VILLAGE HALL AND RECREATION GROUND CHARITY income £47k
• GARVESTONE VILLAGE HALL (NEW BUILD) LTD income £28k
• REYDON VILLAGE HALL income £31k
• SHALFORD VILLAGE HALL (SURREY) income £101k

Side by side with its peers

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