HOWDEN CIVIC SOCIETY

Registered charity 510260 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

For over thirty years we have acted as a watchdog on all developments in the town. Our principal task is to monitor proposals which might impact on the historic core and traditions of Howden. We aim to stimulate public interest, promote high standards of planning and architecture and secure the preservation, protection, development and improvement of features of historic or public interest.

Objects

I. TO STIMULATE PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT. II. TO PROMOTE HIGH STANDARS OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT. III. TO SECURE THE PRESERVATION PROTECTION DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF FEATURES OF HISTORIC OR PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: HOWDEN

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

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the society held total assets of £40,153.76 at the end of the financial year, comprising current assets and fixed assets. The treasurer's report indicates that income exceeded expenditure by £842.18 for the year. The society operates within its available resources and has maintained its activities, including meetings and exhibitions, without reporting any financial distress.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Richard Foster. 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• PHILIP MEPHAMchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Diane Smith
• GEOFF TAYLOR
• Marian Jane Thomas
• Susan Butler

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

Operates in: East Riding Of Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CLEVEDON CIVIC SOCIETY.

• CLEVEDON CIVIC SOCIETY income £26k
• WEYMOUTH CIVIC SOCIETY income £811k
• HOWDEN CLOUGH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £46k
• HOWDEN AFC income £134k
• YORK CIVIC TRUST income £500k
• CHEADLE CIVIC SOCIETY income £39k

Side by side with its peers

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