DOWNSWOOD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Charity number: 298218
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of the civil Parish of Downswood, in the Borough of Maidstone, Kent.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 May 2025
Total income: £60,190
Total expenditure: £54,220
Total income includes £3,791 from 3791 government grant(s)
People
14 Trustee(s)
25 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
What the charity does:
- General Charitable Purposes
- Education/training
- Disability
- Religious Activities
- Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Amateur Sport
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Recreation
- Other Charitable Purposes
Who the charity helps:
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Other Defined Groups
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
Where the charity operates:
- Kent
Governance
Registration history:
- 10 December 1987: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Other
Other names:
No other names
Gift aid:
Not recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- 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
- Investment
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- 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
Land and property:
This charity owns and/or leases land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
14 Trustee(s)
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| JOHN EVERETT | Chair |
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| Sue Haigh | Trustee | 09 September 2025 |
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| Nicky Clifford | Trustee | 08 October 2024 |
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| Martin Weeks | Trustee | 08 October 2024 |
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| Katie Simpson | Trustee | 17 January 2024 |
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| Jessica Arundel | Trustee | 12 September 2023 |
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| Rosanna Cronin | Trustee | 13 September 2022 |
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| Scott Raffle | Trustee | 14 September 2021 |
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| Ivan Russell | Trustee | 14 September 2021 |
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| Lorraine Rowe | Trustee | 14 September 2021 |
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| Bernard Dunn | Trustee | 10 October 2017 |
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| Valarie Saunders | Trustee | 13 October 2015 |
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| JIM CARMICHAEL | Trustee | 13 October 2011 |
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| DIANE AVIS Everett | Trustee |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/05/2021 | 31/05/2022 | 31/05/2023 | 31/05/2024 | 31/05/2025 | ||
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Total gross income | £56.23k | £55.57k | £59.36k | £62.46k | £60.19k | |
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Total expenditure | £47.46k | £51.19k | £62.49k | £67.61k | £54.22k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | £36.69k | £4.05k | N/A | £0 | £3.79k |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 May 2025 | 12 September 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 May 2025 | 12 September 2025 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 May 2024 | 02 January 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 May 2024 | 02 January 2025 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 May 2023 | 27 November 2023 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 May 2023 | 27 November 2023 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 May 2022 | 04 November 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 May 2022 | 04 November 2022 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 May 2021 | 17 October 2021 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 May 2021 | 17 October 2021 | On time |