Blunham Sports and Social Club (BSSC)

Registered charity 300009 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BLUNHAM PLAYING FIELDS ASSOCIATION, RECREATION GROUND, BLUNHAM

The charity continues the management of the Blunham playing fields for recreational use on behalf of the public and the villagers of the parish of Blunham, Bedfordshire. This includes the development of facilities including the completed childrens play area and also the development of a new pavillion for members and sporting clubs.

Objects

RECREATION GROUND.

Area of benefit: BLUNHAM

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

Causes: Amateur Sport · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated unrestricted income of £69,625 and incurred unrestricted expenditure of £51,365, resulting in a net surplus of £18,260 for the year. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds unrestricted cash funds of £34,258 at the end of the period, which exceeds its stated reserves policy target of retaining one year's operating costs.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kim McGregor. 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ian Kennedy
• Julian Forbes Laird
• Max Aaron Hurst
• Neil Martin Wildon
• Richard Westhead
• Stuart Robert Tweedale

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

Operates in: Central Bedfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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