CRONDALL VILLAGE HALL

Registered charity 301795 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

management and day-to-day operations of Crondall Village Hall

Objects

VILLAGE HALL,

Area of benefit: PARISH OF CRONDALL 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 · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hart, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£42k

Latest spending

£34k

Registered

1963

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £7,684 and total net assets of £22,403, representing a 52% increase from the previous year. Per the trustees' report, the balance sheet is positive with £51,403 in cash at bank, and core running costs have remained stable due to fixed contracts and solar power savings. The charity also holds a reserves policy target of £12,000, which is comfortably exceeded by the current retained earnings.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £12,000 (reserves figure: £22k)

“The reserves carried forward include a Reserves Policy sum of £12,000” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Financial reserves policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting 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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 5

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 10

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 9
Government income: £17,341 — grants £17,341 (2); 28% of the £61,450 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

Barry Cheeseman
Charles Simon Crowther · trustee of 2 other charities
JOHN OWEN DURRETT · trustee of 1 other charity
PATRICIA M SHARPE

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Surrey

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£42k	£34k
31/12/2024	£25k	£22k
31/12/2023	£61k	£60k
31/12/2022	£78k	£51k
31/12/2021	£103k	£118k

Common questions

Is CRONDALL VILLAGE HALL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £7,684 and total net assets of £22,403, representing a 52% increase from the previous year. Per the trustees' report, the balance sheet is positive with £51,403 in cash at bank, and core running costs have remained stable due to fixed contracts and solar power savings. The charity also holds a reserves policy target of £12,000, which is comfortably exceeded by the current retained earnings. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds CRONDALL VILLAGE HALL?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CRONDALL VILLAGE HALL as a grant recipient include ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTS.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
ROYAL SOCIETY OF WILDLIFE TRUSTS	FY2021	£75k	Biffa Award

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	20/05/2022	£10k	Crondall VH Stage Upgrade
The National Lottery Community Fund	13/11/2020	£10k	Crondall Project
The National Lottery Community Fund	01/11/2018	£10k	Crondall Village Hall Heating Project

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE BAYWIND ENERGY COMMUNITY TRUST	1	£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CROCKHAM HILL VILLAGE HALL TRUST.

THE CROCKHAM HILL VILLAGE HALL TRUST income £52k
HOLT VILLAGE HALL income £45k
SARRATT VILLAGE HALL income £65k
CROYDE VILLAGE HALL income £26k
BLINDCRAKE VILLAGE HALL income £78k
CLAVERHAM VILLAGE HALL income £76k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CRONDALL VILLAGE HALL	£42k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE CROCKHAM HILL VILLAGE HALL TRUST FY2025	£52k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
HOLT VILLAGE HALL FY2025	£45k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
SARRATT VILLAGE HALL FY2025	£65k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
CROYDE VILLAGE HALL FY2025	£26k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BLINDCRAKE VILLAGE HALL FY2026	£78k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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