BIGNALL END MINERS WELFARE INSTITUTE AND RECREATION GROUND

Registered charity 522607 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BIGNALL END CRICKET CLUB & MINERS WELFARE INSTITUTE

We operate as a Sports Recreation Club, originally for the mining community.Following the demise of the mining community we have continued & extended our range of operations to provide sport for the local young people 9 - 17 years with coaching and match play conditions and we are a clubmark accredited club.We also serve the community in providing facilities for Weddings/Funerals / Christenings/

Objects

INSTITUTE AND RECREATION GROUND

Area of benefit: BIGNALL END AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Amateur Sport · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net expenditure of £9,753 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted funds from £103,938 to £94,185. The trustees report that the organization continues to struggle financially with rising costs but maintains adequate resources to operate on a going concern basis. Reserves are held to act as a cushion against revenue shortfalls, with a policy target of one year's support costs.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN GRAHAM MYATT
• Janice Copnell
• Julie Simpson
• MARGARET ANN PEAKE

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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