THE BAGGERIDGE SOCIAL WELFARE CENTRE

Registered charity 522808 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BAGGERIDGE COLLIERY INSTITUTE AND RECREATION GROUD

The Centre provides recreational and leisure activities for local residents.

Objects

FOR THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE THERE ON OF A SOCIAL WELFARE CENTRE AND RECREATION GROUND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF SEDGLEY AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD THEREOF WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, AND IN PARTICULAR FOR USE FOR THE PURPOSES OF PHYSICAL EXERCISE AND TRAINING, MEETINGS LECTURES, CLASSES AND OTHER FORMS OF RECREATION, SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL INTERCOURSE AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Area of benefit: PARISH OF SEDGLEY 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 achieved a net surplus of £14,116 for the year ended 31 January 2025, reversing a previous deficit. Per the trustees' report, the charity's main funding derives from a connected trading company, Baggeridge Social Club Limited, which transferred £35,009 in profits via Gift Aid. The trustees report no material uncertainties regarding the charity's 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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Financial Conduct Authority; Homes England; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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
• Investment
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lloyd Hemmingschair
• David Branwood
• Richard Hawley

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

Operates in: Dudley

Income and spending

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