SAWBRIDGEWORTH MEMORIAL HALL

Registered charity 302465 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MEMORIAL HALL, SAWBRIDGEWORTH MEMORIAL HALL TRUST MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE

General charitable purposesEducation/training, eg Digital inclusion training, Sport/recreation. eg Short Mat Bowls, Table Tennis, Line dancing, Live music, Cinema club

Objects

SUBJECT TO CLAUSE 25 OF THE SCHEME, THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A VILLAGE HALL, RECREATION GROUND AND PLAYING FIELD FOR USE BY THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, INCLUDING USE FOR:(A) MEETINGS, LECTURES AND CLASSES; AND(B) OTHER FORMS OF RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION,WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: THE FORMER URBAN DISTRICT OF SAWBRIDGEWORTH AND ITS IMMEDIATE VICINITY.

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 · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit on activities of £18,329 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in unrestricted funds decreasing to £8,053. The trustees plan to build back reserves over the next two years following a significant capital expansion project.

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 policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/02/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER LEEchair
• ANDREW WINCOTT
• Andrew Dongworth
• Catherine Lamont
• Claire McDonald · trustee of 1 other charity
• HAZEL MEAD
• Jessica Jeffrey
• Matthew Jason Dumphreys
• Patricia Lee
• RIA DONGWORTH

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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