THE EDWARD THOMAS FOAKES MEMORIAL HALL

Registered charity 301312 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FOAKES MEMORIAL HALL

Miss Alice Foakes gave the Foakes Hall to the town in 1934. It now provides a range of well-maintained and varied facilities at moderate prices (available on request) for the local community. These include a large main hall, smaller side hall and a meeting room, stage and scenery store, well-equipped kitchen and bar area and a projection room.

Objects

A HALL FOR THE PURPOSE OF ENTERTAINMENTS, RECREATIONS, MEETINGS, LECTURES, CONCERTS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

Area of benefit: GREAT DUNMOW

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 the charity generated a surplus of £14,438.29, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £178,849.52 at the year-end. Expenditure was £156,022.16 against income of £170,460.45, indicating a positive cash flow for the period. The independent examiner noted that the accounts for the previous year were overdue by 349 days at the time of the report.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• GREAT DUNMOW TOWN COUNCIL · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOOD MEMORIAL HALL.

• HOOD MEMORIAL HALL income £0
• THE METHUEN HALL (OR TOWN HALL) income £141k
• THE HALLAM COMMUNITY AND YOUTH ASSOCIATION income £108k
• HITCHIN TOWN HALL GYMNASIUM AND WORKMAN'S HALL TRUST income £106k
• THE AZELIA HALL CHARITY income £107k
• FOAKES FOR RECREATION GROUND income £190k

Side by side with its peers

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