ELHAP

Registered charity 1077508 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ELHAP ( A SPECIAL NEEDS ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND )

ELHAP offers adventure play to children, young people and adult with disabilities and special needs from North East London and Essex areas. It is ELHAPs aim and purpose to ensure that all our children and young people, regardless of ability or dis-ability, have the opportunity to access our adventure playground to have fun, be challenged and to enjoy themselves.

Objects

TO RELIEVE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL OR LEARNING DISABILITIES, INCLUDING THOSE OF VISION, HEARING AND PERCEPTION, AND ADULTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR ADVENTURE PLAY AND OTHER RECREATIONAL AND SOCIAL ACTIVITY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £309,417 with total incoming resources of £1,300,772 against expenditure of £991,355. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves have increased to £174,527, which the trustees consider a healthy level providing reassurance against financial pressures.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by THP Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Elhap (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Joe Goble — Deputy CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (50% 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: 4.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID EDWARD CHARLTONchair
• Elaine Margaret Crossley
• Kelvin Ha
• Muhammad Sharif Chowdhury
• Ocean Naguleswaran
• Sumeet Rawal

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

Operates in: Barking And Dagenham · Essex · Hackney · Redbridge · Waltham Forest

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EASINGTON LANE COMMUNITY ACCESS POINT.

• EASINGTON LANE COMMUNITY ACCESS POINT income £402k
• COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES PROJECT EALING (C.A.P.E.) income £675k
• OXFORDSHIRE PLAY ASSOCIATION income £170k
• HORTICAP income £1.3m
• HARINGEY PLAY ASSOCIATION income £218k
• INCLUSIVE LEISURE EDUCATION ACTIVITIES PROJECT income £356k

Side by side with its peers

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