WOOLLEY MINERS' WELFARE SCHEME

Registered charity 523575 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WOOLLEY MINERS' WELFARE INSTITUTE AND RECREATION GROUNDS

Providing Sports & Leisure Facilities for the Community. Community Events & Entertainment.Community Participation Events. Community Fundraising Activities.Providing Community Meeting Space & Facilities.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS (AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, SUCH OF THE SAID INHABITANTS AS ARE MEMBERS OF THE MINING COMMUNITY) OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: URBAN DISTRICT OF DARTON

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

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a deficit for the year, with total expenditure of £59,344.97 exceeding total income of £49,999.00. Consequently, the unrestricted reserves decreased from an opening balance of £14,649.12 to a closing balance of £5,303.15.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2023 (received 13/03/2025, 226 days after the 30/07/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alistair Heseltine
• Mark Beardshall
• Michael David Brunt
• RICHARD JOHN LEDGER

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

Operates in: Barnsley

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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