THE BROMLEY BY BOW CENTRE

Registered charity 1041653 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BROMLEY BY BOW CENTRE

To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of East London and surrounding areas either alone or by associating together the inhabitants and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations to advance education, protect and preserve health, relieve poverty, sickness and distress and provide recreational facilities and any such charitable purposes as the trustees shall may decide.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total deficit of £187k for the year ended 30 June 2025, an improvement from the previous year. Unrestricted reserves decreased to £2,134k, with free reserves (working capital) standing at £530k. The entity is preparing for a merger with Family Action, which will result in the cessation of its trading operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → not a going concern (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Bromley by Bow Centre merges with national charity Family Action towerhamletsslice.co.uk · 19/03/2026

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bromley by Bow Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (75% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SIMON BEVANchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Charles Holmes · trustee of 5 other charities
• Family Action · trustee of 3 other charities
• Graham Frank Rowbotham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Raymond Hargrave · trustee of 6 other charities

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

Operates in: Hackney · Newham · Tower Hamlets · Waltham Forest

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BROMLEY FC COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST.

• BROMLEY FC COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST income £501k
• BROMLEY & LEWISHAM MENCAP income £2.8m
• BELLINGHAM COMMUNITY PROJECT LIMITED income £119k
• Bromley Homeless income £433k
• BRIGHTLINGSEA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £259k
• BROMLEY HOUSE LIBRARY income £505k

Side by side with its peers

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