FRIEND IN NEED COMMUNITY CENTRE

Registered charity 1090701 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FIN COMMUNITY CENTRE

To provide support for the elderly of Barnet in the form of [but not limited to] day care, good neighbour schemes, carer support, community transport, shopping, bill payments and pension collection, health and fitness. The community transport and shopping service operate across the whole borough.

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity posted a substantial operating loss of £28,661 for the year ended 31 March 2025, continuing a trend of financial challenges. However, the charity holds healthy unrestricted reserves of £352,932, which the trustees describe as legacy funds used to plug the deficit. The trustees acknowledge the need for internal restructuring and innovative fundraising to ensure future sustainability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Friend In Need Community Centre (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/09/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev RUPERT LAZARchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Keith Nipps
• Philip Cohen
• Richard Murray
• Sharmini Chandrasekar
• Victoria Small

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

Operates in: Barnet

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).