BLACKMORE VILLAGE HALL

Registered charity 301254 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide facilities for the inhabitants of Blackmore for meetings, lectures, classes and other forms of recreation and leisure time.

Objects

TO PROVIDE A VILLAGE HALL FOR THE USE OF THE INHABITANTS OF BLACKMORE AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

Area of benefit: BLACKMORE AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stand at £134,086, with total free/unrestricted cash funds of £144,881. The trustees consider the current state of finances to be sound, noting that the charity operates on a voluntary basis and has received National Lottery grant funding for facility improvements.

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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Roger Charles Keeblechair
• Christopher Vincent Blackwell
• JOHN GRAHAM CANNON · trustee of 2 other charities
• John Andrew Caton
• John Kelso Inverarity
• Keith Rayment Goody

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BEECH VILLAGE HALL AND RECREATION GROUND.

• BEECH VILLAGE HALL AND RECREATION GROUND income £143k
• Mangotsfield and Blackhorse Sports & Community Association income £1.4m
• PONTHIR VILLAGE HALL income £217k
• CHARITY FOR RELIGIOUS AND OTHER PURPOSES income £29k
• BARLEY MOW VILLAGE HALL CIO income £120k
• SALESBURY MEMORIAL HALL income £163k

Side by side with its peers

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