MOUNTFIELD VILLAGE HALL

Registered charity 305282 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

For use of inhabitants of the Parish of Mountfield and surrounding areas as a meeting place for village activities and recreations, such as parish council, social club, horticultural society, blind club, community transport, painting classes, dancing classes, birthday parties, wedding receptions, funeral wakes, fund raising activities.

Objects

VILLAGE HALL

Area of benefit: PARISH OF MOUNTFIELD 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 · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rother, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£17k

Latest spending

£15k

Registered

1966

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a surplus of £1,083 for the year ending 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £10,521, held to maintain the fabric of the hall and cover future repair costs. The trustees confirmed there were no uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Hire of hall

“The main source of funds is through the hire of the hall for events.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: to maintain the fabric of the hall into the future, with expected repairs and maintence costs required in future years (reserves figure: £11k)

“Reserves are held to maintain the fabric of the hall into the future, with expected repairs and maintence costs required in future years.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Risk management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2026

Volunteers: 20

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

Volunteers: 10
Government income: £39,873 — grants £39,873 (2); 71% of the £56,538 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Government income: £3,090 — grants £3,090 (1); 21% of the £15,015 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

NEIL WHINESchair
Jonathan James Playfoot
Mark Gordon Hardy
Nicholas Carl Randle
Patricia Ann Jones
Sophie Head
Stephen Oakley

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2026	£17k	£15k
31/03/2025	£57k	£55k
31/03/2024	£15k	£15k
31/03/2023	£11k	£15k
31/03/2022	£4k	£11k

Common questions

Is MOUNTFIELD VILLAGE HALL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity made a surplus of £1,083 for the year ending 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £10,521, held to maintain the fabric of the hall and cover future repair costs. The trustees confirmed there were no uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	28/06/2018	£5k	Village Hall Sewage System Modernisation

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MOULTON VILLAGE HALL.

MOULTON VILLAGE HALL income £27k
GLENFIELD MEMORIAL HALL income £48k
MYDDLE VILLAGE HALL income £28k
MOUNTNESSING VILLAGE HALL income £43k
SOUTH HANNINGFIELD VILLAGE HALL CHARITY income £44k
TRUMPINGTON VILLAGE HALL CHARITY income £52k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
MOUNTFIELD VILLAGE HALL	£17k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
MOULTON VILLAGE HALL FY2025	£27k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
GLENFIELD MEMORIAL HALL FY2026	£48k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
MYDDLE VILLAGE HALL FY2025	£28k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
MOUNTNESSING VILLAGE HALL FY2025	£43k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
SOUTH HANNINGFIELD VILLAGE HALL CHARITY FY2025	£44k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.