NEWTON ABBOT AND DISTRICT RECREATIONAL TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 300909 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as REC TRUST

TO PROVIDE SPORTS AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

Objects

TO PROVIDE OR TO ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR RECREATION, PHYSICAL EDUCATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE TOWN OF NEWTON ABBOT AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD.

Area of benefit: NEWTON ABBOT AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Amateur Sport · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity produced a surplus of £14,028 for the year ended 30 September 2025, compared to a deficit in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a strong operating position with unrestricted reserves of £153,646 and designated funds of £140,000, totaling £293,646 in carried-forward funds.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nigel Lawrence Flowerchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• BARRY THOMAS WIDDICOMBE
• Brian Robert Mackness
• Ian Ballinger
• Ian Shepherd · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Patrick Sanders
• Mark Andrews
• RICHARD GEORGE THOMAS
• Roger Bryson Hayes
• Stephen John Reynolds · trustee of 1 other charity
• Steve O'Donnell
• Tracey Jane Stronghill

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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