NEW MILTON AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 301897 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

ART, BRIDGE, CRAFTS, DISCUSSION GROUPS, LANGUAGES, POETRY, TABLE TENNIS, BOWLS, SCRABBLE, DANCING, LITERATURE, LUNCH CLUB

Objects

COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Area of benefit: NEW MILTON 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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£131k
Latest spending
£100k
Registered
1965
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating surplus of £30,727 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £548,574. The trustees confirm that funds are sufficient to cover current costs for over a year without new income, indicating adequate liquidity. However, the trustees note that rising energy costs and an ageing building limit the ability to raise loans, necessitating reliance on reserves for major unforeseen costs.

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 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£131k£100k
31/12/2023£117k£86k
31/12/2022£102k£90k
31/12/2021£74k£64k
31/12/2020£59k£120k

Common questions

Is NEW MILTON AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported an operating surplus of £30,727 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £548,574. The trustees confirm that funds are sufficient to cover current costs for over a year without new income, indicating adequate liquidity. However, the trustees note that rising energy costs and an ageing building limit the ability to raise loans, necessitating reliance on reserves for major unforeseen costs. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
COLEFAX CHARITABLE TRUST1£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MILTON COMMUNITY CENTRE AND RECREATION GROUNDS.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
NEW MILTON AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION£131k—0unclear—no doubt
MILTON COMMUNITY CENTRE AND RECREATION GROUNDS FY2025£136k—0above—no doubt
MELTHAM SPORTS AND COMMUNITY GROUP LIMITED FY2025£134k—0above—no doubt
NORTH EAST MITCHAM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2025£105k—0unclear—no doubt
WHITELEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2025£103k—0unclear—noted
NEW MILTON EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH FY2025£353k—0unclear—no doubt

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