DRINKSTONE WAR MEMORIAL INSTITUTE

Registered charity 304876 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity provides a Village Memorial Hall for the benefit of the local village community and others for recreational, educational and social purposes.

Objects

PURPOSES OF A VILLAGE HALL

Area of benefit: PARISH OF DRINKSTONE

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 maintains unrestricted reserves of £13,000 in its General Fund, which meets its stated policy target of covering a minimum of one year’s annual expenditure. The trustees report adequate resources for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding going concern. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and the accounts accord with those records.

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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• SUSAN FOULSHAMchair
• Brenda Patricia Elphick
• Lesley Ann Canham
• Lindi Belfield
• Lyn Hannant
• Nicholas Hill
• ROBIN SHARP
• Sheila Beswick
• Sheila Riches
• Susan Goreham
• Valerie Joy Birkett

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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