Ashington Community Centre Trust

Registered charity 305340 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ASHINGTON COMMUNITY CENTRE, VILLAGE HALL AND PLAYING FIELDS

Provision of community halls and playing field and other recreational facilities for the benefit of the residents of Ashington and the local community.

Objects

PUBLIC PLAYING FIELDS AND VILLAGE HALL

Area of benefit: PARISH OF ASHINGTON 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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Registered contact address: Horsham, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the organization operates without financial support from external sources, relying instead on income generated by its own initiatives and contributions from trustees and volunteers. The chair's report highlights ongoing maintenance challenges, high heating costs, and the need for significant future repairs, noting that the economic climate continues to affect the trust.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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

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

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher James Wood
• Haydn Martin Jenkins
• MARGARET MARY ALFORD
• MARK DAVID JONES
• Michelle Simpson
• Penelope Jane Howie

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HUBBERSTON AND HAKIN COMMUNITY CENTRE.

• HUBBERSTON AND HAKIN COMMUNITY CENTRE income £38k
• ADMASTON HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTRE TRUST income £60k
• LANCHESTER COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £90k
• CLAYTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £70k
• FREEMANTLE AND SHIRLEY COMMUNITY CENTRE income £88k
• THE ST MICHAEL'S COMMUNITY CENTRE income £60k

Side by side with its peers

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