RECREATION GROUND AND SITE FOR VILLAGE HALL

Registered charity 305355 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Maintain the Recreation Ground for the benefit of Parishoners in providing a play area and sport facilities for education, participation and leisure.

Objects

PUBLIC PLAYING FIELDS AND SITE FOR VILLAGE HALL

Area of benefit: PARISH OF COMPTON AND ITS IMMEDIATE VICINITTY

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds were maintained at a level equivalent to between three- and six-months’ expenditure, a policy the trustees consider ensures continuity of activities. Per the trustees' report, net income increased to £1,508, driven by significant growth in the Compton Festival and Square Dance events, despite higher operational costs. The charity holds total net assets of £36,733, with unrestricted funds of £14,920 and restricted funds of £21,813.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2021 (received 21/08/2022, 22 days after the 30/07/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew John Simmanschair
• Julia Helen Yvonne Moulton
• Rev Christopher Michael Jefferies Hancock

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TERRINGTON VILLAGE HALL AND RECREATION GROUND.

• TERRINGTON VILLAGE HALL AND RECREATION GROUND income £64k
• WILLAND VILLAGE HALL AND RECREATION GROUND income £38k
• THE HORAM VILLAGE HALL AND RECREATION GROUND CHARITY income £77k
• ATWORTH VILLAGE HALL AND RECREATION GROUND income £36k
• EASTER COMPTON VILLAGE HALL income £52k
• CLEY VILLAGE HALL AND RECREATION GROUND CHARITY income £26k

Side by side with its peers

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