WEST CHILTINGTON VILLAGE HALL

Registered charity 314072 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Village Hall provides the facilities for some 30 local organisations to meet and carry out their activities and is hired out for private functions, such as wedding receptions, lunches, dinners, dances etc sponsored by local residents.

Objects

A VILLAGE HALL FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE BENEFICIAL AREA.

Area of benefit: PARISH OF WEST CHILTINGTON 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 generated a net cash surplus of £3,640 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by an 11.5% increase in hall hire income to £33,148 and a reduction in operational payments. Free reserves held in cash and short-notice accounts totalled £94,115, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover short-term commitments and contingency needs for the aging building.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Antony Bignell
• Edwin Thomas William Preece
• Ian Stuart Wilson
• Robert Edward Gustar
• Roland Brook · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sondra Frances Fulbrook

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

Operates in: West Sussex

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