DENBY DALE VILLAGE HALL

Registered charity 523577 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charities activities are to provide for Denby Dale and the surrounding neighbourhood premises for meetings, lectures, classes and other recreational activities with the object of improving the conditions of life for the inhabitants.

Objects

A VILLAGE HALL

Area of benefit: DENBY DALE

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

Latest income

£142k

Latest spending

£150k

Registered

1972

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net loss of £8,040 for the year ended 31 December 2025, primarily due to lower bar sales and increased costs for utilities, wages, and repairs. Despite this loss, the trustees remain confident in the charity's ongoing viability and note that hall bookings continue to be a steady source of income. The charity holds unrestricted funds of £1,034,235, which significantly exceeds its stated reserves policy target of £18,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of the expenditure (reserves figure: £1.0m)

“It has established a policy where the unrestricted funds not committed or invested in tangible fixed assets held by the Charity should be at least three months of the expenditure. Budgeted expenditure was reviewed by the Trustees and it was agreed that a minimum of £18,000 was required to meet the working capital requirements of the Charity.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: The charity was associated with the Pie Hall Social Club Limited, a company registered under the Industrial & Provident Societies Act 1965 and the Friendly and !ndustrial and Provident Societies Act 1968.

“The charity was associated with the Pie Hall Social Club Limited, a company registered under the Industrial & Provident Societies Act 1965 and the Friendly and !ndustrial and Provident Societies Act 1968. The charity is ultimately controlled by its trustees. No individual has overall controi.” — page 13

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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 policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investment
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 6
Government income: £18,706 — grants £18,706 (1); 13% of the £142,156 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 4

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 8

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

Trustees · trustee networks

David Toulcherchair
Gerard Morris
Tina Bamford

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

Operates in: Kirklees

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£142k	£150k
31/12/2024	£134k	£135k
31/12/2023	£128k	£104k
31/12/2022	£87k	£111k
31/12/2021	£59k	£56k

Common questions

Is DENBY DALE VILLAGE HALL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity incurred a net loss of £8,040 for the year ended 31 December 2025, primarily due to lower bar sales and increased costs for utilities, wages, and repairs. Despite this loss, the trustees remain confident in the charity's ongoing viability and note that hall bookings continue to be a steady source of income. The charity holds unrestricted funds of £1,034,235, which significantly exceeds its stated reserves policy target of £18,000. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds DENBY DALE VILLAGE HALL?

Funders whose own accounts filings name DENBY DALE VILLAGE HALL as a grant recipient include THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF HUDDERSFIELD COMMON GOOD TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF HUDDERSFIELD COMMON GOOD TRUST	FY2022	£5k

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	04/06/2021	£10k	Urgent building maintenance and upgrades. Energy efficiency improvements.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRAY VILLAGE HALL.

BRAY VILLAGE HALL income £45k
DANBY VILLAGE HALL income £61k
CANNINGTON VILLAGE HALL income £33k
VILLAGE HALL income £15k
STEWARTBY VILLAGE HALL income £44k
DRAYTON VILLAGE HALL income £334k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
DENBY DALE VILLAGE HALL	£142k	—	above	—	no doubt
BRAY VILLAGE HALL FY2025	£45k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
DANBY VILLAGE HALL FY2025	£61k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
CANNINGTON VILLAGE HALL FY2025	£33k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
VILLAGE HALL FY2025	£15k	—	above	—	no doubt
STEWARTBY VILLAGE HALL FY2025	£44k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.