WORTH MATRAVERS VILLAGE HALL

Registered charity 301207 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

General charitable activities including fund-raising activities and provision of recreational, artistic and social activities for benefit of local community.

Objects

Object of Charity:1) The Object of the Charity shall be the provision and maintenance of a village hall for the use of the inhabitants of the Village of Worth Matravers and for inhabitants of surrounding districts and visitors to both (hereinafter called the “area of benefit”) without distinction of political, religious or other opinions, including use for meetings, lectures and classes, and for other forms of recreation and leisure-time occupation, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants.2) The Trustees shall give priority use of the premises on Sundays for use as a Church of England Sunday School free of charge, except for the cost of lighting, heating and cleaning.3) The said land and building shall be held upon trust for the purposes of a village hall as aforesaid.

Area of benefit: THE PARISH OF WORTH MATRAVERS 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 · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £5,077 for the year, reducing cash resources to £50,423. Despite this deficit, the trustees believe resources are adequate to meet foreseeable costs and that the hall has been maintained to meet objectives. The filing notes that income was impacted by a three-month closure for repairs.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Nicola Arnold
• Claude Bonfanti
• David Ainscough
• Frances Anne Mary Dinnick
• JACK PATRICK ROSS
• JOHN HYNAN
• Nicholas Viney
• Renato Clerici
• Richard Gould
• Robert Lobley
• Simon Robert Dinnick

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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