NEWLANDS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1091241 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing rent free accomodation to a number of community organisations and subsidised rent to others

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BRADFORD IN PARTICULAR THE DISTRICTS OF GREENGATES RAVENSCLIFFE, THORPE EDGE, THORNBURY, BRADFORD MOOR AND FAGLEY, TO RELIEVE POVERTY, ADVANCE EDUCATION, AND PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SAID PERSONS.

Area of benefit: BRADFORD MDC

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity returned a deficit of £13,768 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds to £6,063,310. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £2,886,264, which significantly exceeds the stated minimum target of £20,000. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 01/02/2024, 1 day after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 21/02/2023, 21 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (91% 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: 0.1% of total income.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ann Rawson
• BOB SHERRY
• Iwan Williams
• Mark John Ricketts
• Pauline Jeanette Bland
• SUE HODGSON

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

Operates in: Bradford City

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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