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A Maidenhead arts venue is due to receive extra funding from charity funds to help it cover growing cost pressures. Norden Farm Centre for the Arts has been a long-standing part of Maidenhead and celebrated its 25th anniversary last year. At the time, the Norden Farm’s Forever Fund was launched to help raise money for the venue’s operating costs. Every year, the centre also receives £115,000 from the council, specifically financed from the UK Shared Prosperity Government Fund.

But at a cabinet meeting yesterday (Tuesday)– where councillors acted as trustees of the Kidwells Park charity – they heard that this funding will end in the 2025/26 financial year. Speaking at the York House meeting, Councillor Simon Werner (Lib Dem, Pinkneys Green) said: “That fund is being wound up by the Government and not replaced with a similar grant that can affect this area.” “Without that funding none of the amazing things at Norden Farm will happen.

“It will be a hollow husk, and we can’t let that happen.” The land Norden Farm is located on is partly owned by the Kidwells Park trust and, as trustees, councillors could agree to grant £100,000 out of the charity’s funds, Cllr Werner added. This funding will be for the 2026/27 financial year.

Cllr Werner said: “We need to do everything we can to make sure [Norden Farm] survives in such difficult and trying times.” But Cllr Richard Coe (Lib Dem, Riverside) said he had a ‘slight concern’ about long-term plans to ensure Norden Farm can fund itself. “This has been an area of debate for quite a few years now, about [the farm] achieving self-sufficiency. Do we know more on that?” he asked.

Cllr Werner explained the arts centre is putting a lot of plans ‘into action’ to give itself a ‘long-term future’, including a fund people can donate to. Other concerns were raised about the Kidwells Park charity’s money being ‘misused’. Addressing the meeting from the public gallery, Cllr Jack Douglas (Ind, St Mary’s) said: “It’s really important that RBWM support the work of Norden Farm, but regrettably, this is not the place to take the money from.

“It’s going to have to be found somewhere else if you don’t want to expose yourselves to liabilities for misusing the charity’s money. “You’re going to be personally liable as trustees for significant financial risk if you go ahead with taking this money out of the trust and putting it into Norden Farm.” But Cllr Werner said legal advice was provided that £100,000 can be spent from the Kidwells Park trust.

Speaking at the York House meeting, Elaine Browne, the council’s monitoring officer and deputy director of law and governance, said: “Outside of this paper, officers have been made aware that the charitable objects have to be adhered to – that has been explained. “So, it’s not just a case of handing the money over; we’d have to be careful. I think an example I gave is [that] you couldn’t give them the money to build a new bar.

“There is going to be consideration for the charitable object within how [Norden Farm] uses that money.” Cllr Catherine del Campo (Lib Dem, Furze Platt) asked for some clarification around this. “Are you saying that we can specify how this money is spent and that there is a governance process to ensure that it is spent only on those things?” she asked. Ms Browne explained that the Charity Commission ‘could take issue’ if the money is just given to Norden Farm.

She said: “We’d need to be clear on the grounds upon what we’re providing that money for. We’d probably want to see evidence that for example, they’re not going to go and spend it on purchasing a new bar or building a new bar area.” Cllr Werner said that Norden Farm sends Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) around what they have achieved as an organisation and how the money from the prosperity fund was spent.

“We’ve asked them to continue doing that and officers will be monitoring that to make sure that it’s done properly,” he said. Ultimately, the cabinet, sitting as trustees, agreed to put forward the £100,000 needed for Norden Farm.

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“It will be a hollow husk, and we can’t let that happen.” The land Norden Farm is located on is partly owned by the Kidwells Park trust and, as trustees, councillors could agree to grant £100,000 out of the charity’s funds, Cllr Werner added. This funding will be for the 2026/27 financial year.

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Cllr Werner said: “We need to do everything we can to make sure [Norden Farm] survives in such difficult and trying times.” But Cllr Richard Coe (Lib Dem, Riverside) said he had a ‘slight concern’ about long-term plans to ensure Norden Farm can fund itself. “This has been an area of debate for quite a few years now, about [the farm] achieving self-sufficiency. Do we know more on that?” he asked.