PURITON PLAYING FIELD COMMITTEE

Registered charity 296549 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing sports & recreation facilities for the village of Puriton, Somerset.

Objects

TO PROVIDE A PLAYING FIELD WITH ANCILLARY FACILITIES WITH A VIEW TO PROVIDING FOR USE OF THE RESIDENTS OF PURITON (AND DISTRICT) A MEANS OF SOCIAL RECREATION.

Area of benefit: PURITON (AND DISTRICT)

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

Causes: Amateur Sport · Recreation · Get email alerts

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

Latest income
£30k
Latest spending
£54k
Registered
1987
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The document states that the organization was primarily focused on the winding up of the Puriton Playing Field Committee and transitioning to a new entity, Puriton Sports Centre CIO, during the 2025 financial year. It notes assistance from the Charity Commission and gratitude for the treasurer's help, but provides no financial figures, reserves, or audit status to assess overall financial health.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Going concern: accounts NOT prepared on a going-concern basis (closing, merging or winding up)
“Our main issue in 2025 was organising the winding up of Puriton Playing Field Committee and beginning trading as Puriton Sports Centre CIO (Charity no. 1202007).” — page 1
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Discloses 1 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

  • Volunteers: 10

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

  • Volunteers: 6

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

  • Volunteers: 6
  • Government income: £1,450 — grants £1,450 (1); 2% of the £64,755 total gross income on the same return

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 06/05/2025, 187 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 16/01/2024, 77 days after the 31/10/2023 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

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£30k£54k
31/12/2024£27k£51k
31/12/2023£65k£83k
31/12/2022£35k£49k
31/12/2021£33k£23k

Common questions

Is PURITON PLAYING FIELD COMMITTEE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The document states that the organization was primarily focused on the winding up of the Puriton Playing Field Committee and transitioning to a new entity, Puriton Sports Centre CIO, during the 2025 financial year. It notes assistance from the Charity Commission and gratitude for the treasurer's help, but provides no financial figures, reserves, or audit status to assess overall financial health.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Sport England24/05/2021£18kCOVID-19 Return to Play