HORSTEAD CENTRE

Registered charity 303986 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HORSTEAD REGIONAL RESIDENTIAL YOUTH CONFERENCE CENTRE

RESIDENTIAL OUTDOOR LEARNING & EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY CENTRE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE.

Objects

(A) A RESIDENTIAL TRAINING CENTRE FOR THE USE OF YOUNG PERSONS RESIDING IN OR NEAR THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND DIOCESE OF NORWICH AND IN PARTICULAR FOR RESIDENTIAL AND OTHER GATHERINGS, COURSES, STUDY AND RECREATIONAL GROUPS, MEETINGS, LECTURES AND CLASSES AND FOR OTHER FORMS OF RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION, WITH THEOBJECT OF EDUCATING AND ASSISTING YOUNG PERSONS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIESTO THE END THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED. (B) TO PERMIT THE SAME TO BE USED FOR THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES OF OTHER PERSONS PARTICULARLY THOSE RESIDING IN OR NEAR THE DIOCESE.

Area of benefit: DIOCESE OF NORWICH AND NEIGHBOURHOOD

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a general fund net surplus of £30,463 for the year ended 31 December 2024, driven by higher-than-anticipated bookings and staff savings. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £184,170 were held at year-end, which is slightly above the stated policy target of approximately £170,000 (six months of running costs). The trustees expressed confidence that operations would continue to be sustainable.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW YUILL
• Caroline Fleming
• Judith kathryn Elliott-Hunter
• Karen Sims
• Kathryn Jane Hirst · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Dunning
• Rev Jonathan Richardson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Mark Capron
• Tim Sweeting · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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