EASTSIDE COMMUNITY TRUST

Registered charity 1081691 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMMUNITY AT HEART, EASTON AND LAWRENCE HILL NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT

Working with residents and service providers to deliver neighbourhood management in Easton and Lawrence Hill in Bristol to improve the lives of local people.

Objects

Serving the wards of Easton and Lawrence Hill, particularly the neighbourhoods of Easton, Lawrence Hill, Old Market, St Judes, Newtown, Whitehall, Greenbank, Redfield, The Dings and Barton Hill, the Objects for which the charity is established are: 1) Advancement of citizenship and community development through the promotion of civic participation, volunteering, and community capacity building. 2) Provision of community services and facilities with the objective of inspiring agency, connecting people, creating opportunities and improving the condition of life for residents. 3) Specifically provide services and facilities, including an adventure playground, for children and young people: a) of which such children and young people have need by reason of their age or social and economic circumstances; and b) which will improve the conditions of childhood for such children and young people by promoting their health and well-being.

Area of benefit: BRISTOL , IN PARTICULAR IN EASTON, BARTON HILL, OLD MARKET, ST JUDES, NEWTOWN, WHITEHALL, GREENBANK, REDFIELD, LAWRENCE HILL AND THE DINGS.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's total income increased to £1,018,198, driven primarily by charitable activities, while total expenditure was £992,415, resulting in a net surplus. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £479,644, which is below its stated policy target of £500,000. The trustees and auditors confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least twelve months on a going concern basis.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

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

• Gifts That Give: M&S Puts Community at Heart Of This Year’s Clothing & Home Christmas Campaign corporate.marksandspencer.com · 04/11/2022
• New Chief Executive appointed to lead Hospice in the Weald with the Community at heart of exciting plans for the future ehospice.com · 06/02/2022

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Stacy — 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~6.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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: 3.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/04/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adebimpe Janet Ayeni
• Alan Russell
• Azmina Mitha Faisal Ms
• Katherine Elizabeth Monkhouse
• Lakhraj Minhas
• Maria Camila Gomez Gutierrez
• Megan Belcher
• Mx Henry Alexander Owen
• Paul Hassan
• Rosanna Clare Dearbergh Wakefield

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 EASTON COMMUNITY CHILDRENS CENTRE LIMITED.

• EASTON COMMUNITY CHILDRENS CENTRE LIMITED income £1.3m
• THE WEST END COMMUNITY TRUST income £45k
• THE BRISTOL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION income £511k
• EASTCOTE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £90k
• The Teesside Charity income £620k
• EASTSIDE COMMUNITY HERITAGE income £173k

Side by side with its peers

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