CASTLE PARK TRUST

Registered charity 507587 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CASTLE PARK FRODSHAM

The use of Castle Park Building for Council Offices, the advancement of education, a museum, art gallery or public library. Also the provision of a historic public park for the benefit of the inhabitants of the area.

Objects

A) TO USE USE THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN PART 1 OF THE SCHEDULE OF THIS SCHEME FOR:I) COUNCIL OFFICES FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE COUNCIL AS LOCAL AUTHORITY AND THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFITII) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFITIII) A MUSEUM, ART GALLERY OR PUBLIC LIBRARY.B) TO RETAIN AND USE THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN PART 2 OF THE SCHEDULE TO THIS SCHEME AS AN HISTORIC PUBLIC PARK FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER BOROUGH COUNCIL

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

Causes: Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves total £244,657, supported by total funds of £1,313,767 which include a significant property valuation of £810,000. The trustees consider these reserves sufficient to meet the charity's on-going needs, and the independent examiner confirmed no material issues were found during the examination.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER COUNCIL · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cheshire West & Chester

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PEMBROKE CASTLE TRUST.

• PEMBROKE CASTLE TRUST income £1.5m
• ARUNDEL CASTLE TRUSTEES LIMITED income £5.7m
• THE CASTLE HOUSE TRUST income £187k
• THE PARHAM PARK TRUST (1984) income £983k
• THE CAISTER CASTLE TRUST income £909k
• BARHAM PARK income £150k

Side by side with its peers

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