SWANLEY WAR MEMORIAL INSTITUTE

Registered charity 302854 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FIVE WENTS MEMORIAL HALL

The Memorial Institute exists for the benefit of the Residents of the Local Community of Swanley, Swanley Village and Hextable

Objects

TO MAINTAIN A VILLAGE INSTITUTE AT SWANLEY FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL RECREATION AND SOCIAL, MORAL, INTELLECTUAL AND RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT OF THE INHABITANTS OF SWANLEY, HEXTABLE AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS.

Area of benefit: SWANLEY, HEXTABLE 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 · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an excess of receipts over payments of £5,373.83 for the year ended 31 August 2025. Free reserves, represented by the closing bank balance, stood at £42,109.82. The trustees reported that no external fundraising was required for building improvements during the year.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALAN WOODS
• Jackie Ryland
• KENNETH GRIST
• Lynne Clarke
• Nicholas Kay
• Sasha Tadman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Steven Firth
• Susan Ellis

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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