THE MANDEVILLE HALL, KIMBOLTON
Registered Charity No. 302646
Mandeville Hall – Trustees Report for year ending 31[st] December 2025
The Mandeville Hall’s key purpose is to provide facilities for a wide range of local groups, activities and for hire to the residents of the parish of Kimbolton & Stonely and surrounding area.
The main objectives for 2025 were to:
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Continue to maintain a “Forward Planning” mechanism (spread sheet) to support the improved management of the Halls finances and activities
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Continue to identify areas of improvement and upgrade of the Hall’s facilities
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Attract new regular user groups.
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To recruit appropriate skills required by the Committee (Trustee or Volunteer)
Forward Planning
The Planning Meeting for 2025 was held on the 26[th] November 2024 and included several improvements including, among others, re-decorating both halls and refurbishing the disabled toilet.
Events planned include an Open Day for Village Halls Week in March 2025 and a celebration event for the 80[th] Anniversary of VE Day in May 2025.
Improvements
General improvements completed during 2025 in the hall included:
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Re-decoration of the both the Main Hall & Community Hall
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Refurbishment of the Main Hall disabled toilet.
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Fit new safety pull chord in the disabled toilet
Hall Usage
Regular user groups activity remains strong
The Thursday Lunch Club, The Welcome Club and Bytes Café continue to go from strength to strength and provide a warm welcome to members of the local community.
Several local community events (Parties etc) were held through the year.
Committee Events:
Our regular monthly Bingo nights continue to be well attended. The monthly Film Nights continue to be of concern in terms of attendance with a few shows being cancelled. We will continue to monitor the situation in terms of feasibility.
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Highlight of the 2025 events was the 80[th] Anniversary of VE Day held on the 5[th] May. The event was attended by over 100 local residents. Guests included local MP Ben Obese-Jecty, Councillor Steve McAdam Chair of Huntingdon District Council. Entertainment was provided by MaSH Dance School & Lulus Vintage Vocals. The event was also supported with a superb display of memorabilia from the era.
The annual Children’s Christmas party was once again a huge success attended by 38 children of 8 years old and younger. We were able to provide the party free of charge thanks to the support of several local businesses.
Policies & Procedures .
Our policies and procedures were subject to review for Hallmark 2 & 3 accreditations by ACRE in August 2025. Both Hallmark 2 & 3 were achieved successfully.
Finance
The revenue from hires was £17772.75 (£16637 2024). General running costs were £14676 (£14387 2024). Maintenance costs were £8635 (£14443 2024). The Committee activities raised £5986 during the year.
Overall, the hall finances remain in very good order.
Independent Examiners (Accounts): Simplex Solutions 33 Hoylake Drive Farcet Peterborough PE7 3BD
Trustees
The Committee of Management structure (as per the governing document) remains unchanged and consists of 4 x elected members, 4 x representative members and 4 x co-opted members giving a total of 12.
The current committee stands at 7 members consisting of 3 elected, 2 representative and 2 co-opted. We also have a minute’s secretary who is a non-trustee.
Members:
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Stanley Rhodes – (Elected) Chairman
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Jean Stratford – (Elected)
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Shirley Rhodes – (Elected)
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Mavis Campion – (Co-opted)
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John Gray – (Co-opted)
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Joan Carpenter – WI Representative
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Keith Hutchinson – Parish Council Representative
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Anne Beszant (Non Trustee) – Minutes Secretary
We continue to pursue the recruitment & increase the number of Trustees and have several excellent volunteers.
Stan Rhodes
Chairman – on behalf of the Mandeville Hall Management Committee
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Mandeville Village Hall Income and Expenditure Account For the Year Ending 31 December 2025
Income
| Hire of Halls 17,772.75 £ FIT Payments (Electricity) 803.28 £ Gift Aid Claim - £ Donations and Grants 3,130.00 £ Bank Interest 2,522.37 £ Bytes income 2,951.90 £ Childrens Xmas Party Income 254.47 £ VE Day Event 350.69 £ Fundraising 5,986.46 £ TOTAL INCOME Expenses Electricity 4,177.40 £ Water 776.25 £ Rates 498.93 £ Insurance 980.08 £ Licences and Memberships 766.58 £ Cleaning 5,253.93 £ Waste Disposal 248.30 £ Admin/Office Expenses 1,974.75 £ Repairs and Maintenance 8,635.43 £ Bytes Expenses 194.01 £ Childrens Xmas Party Expenses 666.18 £ VE Day Event Expenses 2,559.20 £ Open Day Event Expenses 75.38 £ Cost of Fundraising Events 2,370.02 £ Capital Expenditure 660.40 £ TOTAL EXPENSES Surplus/(Deficit for the year Balance brought forward Balance carried forward Balance carried forward comprises Barclays Bank Cambridge & Counties Bank Bar Float Bytes Float |
33,771.92 £ |
3,935.08 £ 79,968.60 £ As at 31st Dec 2024 83,903.68 £ As at 31st Dec 2025 As at 31st Dec 2025 83,903.68 £ |
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| 29,836.84 £ |
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| 19,474.09 £ 64,199.59 £ 200.00 £ 30.00 £ |
Independent examiner's report on the accounts
Section A Independent Examiner’s Report
| Report to the trustees/ members of On accounts for the year ended Set out on pages |
Charity Name Mandeville Village Hall |
Charity Name Mandeville Village Hall |
Charity Name Mandeville Village Hall |
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| 31/12/2025 | Charity no (if any) |
302646 | |
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I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/12/2025.
Responsibilities and As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent examiner's statement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
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the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
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the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
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the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
- Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.
Signed: Yvette Smart Date: 19/02/2026 Name: Yvette Smart – Simplex Solutions Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 33 Hoylake Drive, Farcet, Peterborough, PE7 3BD
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Section B Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .
Nothing to report.
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