VICTORIA PARK HARRIERS AND TOWER HAMLETS AC

Registered charity 1091712 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Operating community based sports facilities and activities and community development.

Objects

THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC WITHIN EAST LONDON WITH THE OBJECT OF PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR PUBLIC RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION AND IN PARTICULAR ATHLETICS IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE WHO RESIDE AND WORK IN THE SAID AREA.

Area of benefit: EAST LONDON

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

Causes: Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£140k
Latest spending
£146k
Registered
2002
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total unrestricted reserves of £1,225,102, which significantly exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of £75,000. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a positive cash flow and 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

Reserves policy: six months of the charity’s annual costs, excluding expenditure chargeable against the designated reserves (held: £1.2m)
“Based on the charity’s current level of activities, it is considered that a minimum appropriate level of general funds would be £75,000.” — page 22
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Hackney · Tower Hamlets

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£140k£146k
31/03/2024£105k£81k
31/03/2023£111k£112k
31/03/2022£103k£118k
31/03/2021£65k£82k

Common questions

Is VICTORIA PARK HARRIERS AND TOWER HAMLETS AC financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity holds total unrestricted reserves of £1,225,102, which significantly exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of £75,000. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a positive cash flow and has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
City Bridge Foundation15/03/2012£50kGrant to Victoria Park Harriers & Tower Hamlets AC
City Bridge Foundation10/09/2009£3kGrant to Victoria Park Harriers & Tower Hamlets AC

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BARHAM PARK.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
VICTORIA PARK HARRIERS AND TOWER HAMLETS AC£140k—0unclear—no doubt
BARHAM PARK FY2025£150k—0unclear—no doubt
EASTBOURNE SAFFRONS SPORTS CLUB TRUST LIMITED FY2025£229k—0below—no doubt
V22 COMMUNITIES FY2025£529k—0below—no doubt
THE GRIFFIN COMMUNITY TRUST FY2025£152k—0unclear—no doubt
WEST WARWICKSHIRE SPORTS COMPLEX LTD FY2025£383k—0above—no doubt

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