ODCOMBE VILLAGE HALL

Registered charity 304602 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The aim of the charity is to improve the conditions of life for the inhabitants of Odcombe and its surrounding area by providing a suitable venue for meetings, lectures, classes and for other forms of recreation and leisure such as, short mat bowls, exercise classes, football, karate, walkers, sewing, tea dances, luncheons, suppers, bingo and quiz nights.

Objects

A VILLAGE HALL FOR THE USE OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF ODCOMBE.

Area of benefit: PARISH OF ODCOMBE.

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 · Recreation · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operates on a self-financing basis with a reserves policy target of £10,000 for unplanned emergencies. The trustees report that the hall remains in good financial condition, although regular user group hire charges do not entirely cover annual running costs. The filing notes that the charity is awaiting finalisation of the land registration with the Land Registry.

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

• Rachel Vanessa Davieschair
• DENISE ANN DUNFORD
• Jason Gunning
• MARGARET ELIZABETH CLOTWORTHY
• Malcolm Glover
• Thomas John Foot

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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