COTTON END VILLAGE HALL

Registered charity 300019 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VILLAGE HALL, VILLAGE HALL (COTTON END)

Village Hall

Objects

PURPOSES OF A VILLAGE HALL

Area of benefit: COTTON END AND ITS IMMEDIATE VICINITY

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

Registered contact address: Bedford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net payment deficit of £8,020 for the year, reducing its cash reserves from £32,081 to £24,060. The trustees consider that funds held in the investment account reserve are sufficient to cover six months of normal expenditure. No creditors or debtors were held at the end of the period, indicating a clean balance sheet aside from the current year loss.

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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 30/04/2024, 90 days after the 31/01/2024 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

• Karen Wattschair
• Angela Stimson
• Kieran Watts

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

Operates in: Bedford

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

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• MILTON-UNDER-WYCHWOOD VILLAGE HALL income £31k
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Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.