SAMLESBURY MEMORIAL HALL

Registered charity 521317 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision & maintenance of a village hall for the inhabitants of Samlesbury & neighbourhood

Objects

A VILLAGE HALL FOR THE USE OF THE INHABITANTS OF SAMLESBURY AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WITHOUT DISTTINCTION OF SEX OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, AND IN PARTICULAR FOR USE FOR MEETINGS, LECTURES AND CLASSES, AND FOR OTHER FORMS OF RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: SAMLESBURY

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 unrestricted reserves stood at £66,302, representing a strong financial position with no stated reserves policy target. The charity reported a net income of £3,458 for the year, supported by healthy hire income and grant funding, with no material uncertainties affecting its ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• CAROLINE COUGHLINchair
• CATHERINE EVANS
• CLARE LEWIS
• Caroline Marshall
• GORDON ANDREW BARTON
• Gwyn Lewis
• JANET YOUNG
• Jane Clarke
• John Greaves
• Julia Dixon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Julia Marsden
• Lucy Bargh
• Scott Wilson Bennett

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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