VILLAGE HALL BREDFIELD

Registered charity 304714 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing and maintaining a Village Hall, which provides space and facilities for local groups and individuals

Objects

UPON TRUST FOR THE PURPOSES OF PUBLIC PLAYING FIELDS AND OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL TRAINING AND RECREATION AND SOCIAL MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF READING AND RECREAION ROOMS, LIBRARY, LECTURES, CLASSES, RECREATIONS AND ENTERTAINMENT OR OTHERWISE AS MAY BE FOUND EXPEDIENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF BREDFIELD AFORESAID AND ITS IMMEDIATE VICINITY WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR OF POLITICAL RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS.

Area of benefit: BREDFIELD 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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £21,479 at year-end, which exceeds its stated policy target of maintaining a reserve fund of £5,000. The charity reported a surplus for the year, funded primarily by hall hiring income and grants, with no material uncertainties affecting its ability to continue as a going concern.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Mark Woodschair
• ANNE HENDERSON
• ANTONY TRAFFORD BENCE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ashley James Shemmings
• CHRISTINE ANNE JOHNSON
• DAVID JOHN HEPPER
• David Harker
• Francesca Jayne Shemmings
• George Donald Oliver
• Lynn Deniza Taylor
• Michael Andrew Billinge-Jones
• STEPHEN HOWARD COOK
• Timothy Randall Dean

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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