The majority of recent Datchet Parish Council Meetings have not been held in Datchet Hall simply because Datchet Parish Council has not paid previous Hall hire charges. So who issued the instruction not to pay the outstanding Hall hire charges and why? The venue for the next DPC Meeting on 12-10-2026 at 7.00pm has now been moved to Datchet Cricket Club. Today, DPC is barred from Datchet Hall until they agree to pay the Hall hire charges. To make matters worse it now appears that Datchet Parish Council has no lease or licence to use the building No. 1 Allen Way as a Parish Office. A separate organisation – the Datchet Recreation Centre Charity Trust – owns the Sabatini Land and the buildings on that land. The DRCCT Trustees have a duty to operate the charity and its assets in accordance with the beneficiaries wishes*. That is precisely what the Trustees are doing. The DPC has failed to address decades of unresolved issues consequently I have lodged a complaint with the external auditor.
* Below is a digital copy of words contained in the Founding Deed:
THIS TRUST DEED is made the 21st day of March One thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven
BETWEEN DENYS RANDOLPH of Nutt’s Corner, Montagu Road, Datchet, Buckinghamshire, Company Director (hereinafter called “the Benefactor”) of the one part and TREVOR BRYAN OWEN of 11, The Avenue, Datchet aforesaid Company Director and ROBERT WILLIAM WILSON of “Kimberley”, 13, Parsonage Lane, Windsor, Berkshire, Solicitor (hereinafter called “the Original Trustees”) of the other part.
W H E R E A S the Benefactor wishes to enable the Original Trustees to acquire land to be used for the social moral and physical wellbeing of the people resident in the village of Datchet and the surrounding district (without distinction of political or other opinion) including the erection of a recreation centre on part thereof or for other similar charitable purposes and accordingly to create such trusts as hereinafter appear.
AND W H E R E A S for the purposes aforesaid the Benefactor has caused to be vested in the Original Trustees the sum of Six thousand two hundred and fifty pounds and it is apprehended that the Benefactor may hereafter cause further money or investments or property to be paid or transferred into the joint names or control of the Original Trustees or other the Trustees or Trustee for the time being hereof.
NOW THIS DEED WITNESSETH and it is hereby declared as follows:—
- THE Charity hereby constituted shall be called the “Datchet Recreation Centre Charitable Trust”.
- IN this Deed the following terms where the context admits have the following meanings:
(1) The “Datchet Recreation Centre Charitable Trust” and “The Charity” means the charitable trust established by this Deed.
(2) “The Trustees” means the Original Trustees or other the Trustees or Trustee for the time being hereof.
(3) “The Trust Fund” means
(a) the Six thousand two hundred and fifty pounds above-mentioned;
(b) all monies investments and property paid or transferred to and accepted by the Trustees as additions to the Trust Fund; and
(c) the investments and property from time to time representing such investments and additions or any part or parts thereof.
- THE objects of the Datchet Recreation Centre Charitable Trust are so far and so far only as the same are legally charitable:
(a) to acquire land suitable for the building of a recreation centre for the inhabitants of Datchet and district;
(b) to erect, if the Trustees think fit, a building on such land to be used for the social, moral and physical wellbeing of the people resident in the village of Datchet, Buckinghamshire and the surrounding district (without distinction of political or other opinion) by the provision of facilities for social and physical training and recreation and for such other charitable purposes for their benefit as shall from time to time be agreed upon by The Trustees;
(c) any land, buildings or other assets belonging to the Datchet Recreation Centre Charitable Trust shall be held in perpetuity as a non-sectarian and non-political place of recreation and social intercourse as above set out for the advantage or benefit of the said residents either gratuitously or in consideration of any monied payment or on such terms as The Trustees may think fit;
(d) to relieve want amongst the poor and needy of Datchet and district;
(e) to use the Trust Fund for the benefit of The Windsor Old People’s Welfare Committee;
(f) to use the Trust Fund to carry out such other legally charitable purposes for the relief of poverty or the advancement of education or for the advancement of a community similar to that of Datchet as The Trustees shall from time to time by deed executed with their unanimous consent declare.
- THE Trustees shall hold the capital and income of The Trust Fund upon trust to apply the same at such time or times as they may in their absolute discretion think fit for all or any one or more of the objects of the Datchet Recreation Centre Charitable Trust as hereinbefore declared.
- MONEY to be invested under the trusts hereof may be applied or invested in the purchase of or at interest upon the security of such shares, stocks, funds, securities, land, buildings, chattels or other investments or property of whatsoever nature and wheresoever situated and whether involving liabilities or producing income or not or upon such personal credit with or without security as The Trustees shall in their absolute discretion think fit to the intent that The Trustees shall have the same powers in all respects as if they were absolute owners beneficially entitled.
- FOR the purposes of this Deed the Trustees shall have the following powers exerciseable from time to time as The Trustees may think fit, that is to say:
(1) power to make investments in the name or names of one or some only of The Trustees or in the name of any body corporate as nominee for The Trustees whenever it is convenient to do so;
(2) power to collect and receive donations (whether periodical or otherwise) as they think fit;
(3) power to issue appeals for donations and periodical reports of the work of The Trustees;
(4) power to decide to what extent and for what purpose or purposes monies are to be applied under this Deed and in what manner soever the same are to be applied whether by way of outright grant or long or short term loan secured or unsecured at any or no interest and subject in any event to any or no conditions;
(5) power from time to time to make regulations for the management of the charity and to amend or revoke such regulations or to make additional regulations and for the conduct of their business including the summoning of meetings, the deposit of money at a proper bank and the custody of documents;
(6) power to employ and pay a secretary and such other staff as may from time to time be expedient and provide retirement and other benefits for any person so employed and his dependants;
(7) power to defray out of the capital or income of The Trust Fund the expenses of administering the charity;
(8) power to change or vary any investments for the time being forming part of The Trust Fund for others hereby or by law authorised;
(9) power to apply any money for the time being forming part of The Trust Fund in improving or developing any land which or the proceeds of sale of which may for the time being be subject to the trusts hereof or erecting, enlarging, improving or rebuilding any buildings upon such land;
(10) power to sell, lease, demise, let, mortgage, charge, license and generally manage and deal with any land of any tenure which or the proceeds of sale of which may at any time form part of The Trust Fund as if The Trustees were beneficial owners absolutely entitled;
(11) power to borrow money on such terms and as to interest repayment and otherwise as they may think fit and whether upon the security of the whole or any part or parts of the Trust Fund or upon personal security only and to use such money so borrowed in purchasing or subscribing for investments or property to be held as part of The Trust Fund or otherwise for any purpose for which capital monies forming part of The Trust Fund may be used.
- NOTWITHSTANDING anything to the contrary hereinbefore contained no discretion or power by the Deed conferred on The Trustees shall be exercised and no provisions of this Deed shall operate so as to cause any part of the capital or income of The Trust Fund to become payable to or applicable for the benefit of the Benefactor or any wife of the Benefactor.
IN WITNESS whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first before written.
SIGNED SEALED and DELIVERED by the said DENYS RANDOLPH in the presence of:—
- Dinnage 3 Richardson House Cottages The Great Park, Windsor, Berks.
SIGNED SEALED and DELIVERED by the said TREVOR BRYAN OWEN in the presence of:—
- Hollingsworth 70 Burkes Road, Beaconsfield, Bucks. Accountant.
SIGNED SEALED and DELIVERED by the said ROBERT WILLIAM WILSON in the presence of:—
[Witness signature and address as per original document]