LYNDHURST AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 301883 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LYNDHURST COMMUNITY CENTRE

The Association promotes for the benefit of the inhabitants of Lyndhurst and the surrounding area the advancement of education, social welfare, recreation and leisure activities. The Association operates a centre which provides a number of meeting rooms and office services for the use of community groups, individuals and commercial organisations.

Objects

FOR THE PURPOSES OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE, BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR MEETINGS, LECTURES AND CLASSES, PHYSICAL EXERCISE AND TRAINING AND OTHER FORMS OF RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE BENEFICIAL AREA, BEING THE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE SAID FACILITIES ARE PRIMARILY INTENDED:

Area of benefit: LYNDHURST, EMERY DOWN AND BANK

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 · Disability · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an operating surplus of £22,556 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £105,549. The trustees' reserves policy targets a buffer of £36,000 to cover four months of expenditure, a target which is comfortably exceeded by the current unrestricted reserves. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention regarding the accounts or accounting records.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR ROB DEWINGchair
• JENNIFER GREEN
• Jennifer Darvill-Saunders
• Margaret Helen Weston · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Rolle

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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