EAST OF LONDON FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

Registered charity 1094419 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote and encourage the study of family history amongst those living in or having ancestral links with that area of Greater London north of the Thames extending from the edge of the City of London at Bishopsgate and Aldgate, eastwards through the London Borough of Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Newham, Redbridge and Dagenham, to the edge of Metropolitan Essex at Havering.

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE STUDY OF FAMILY HISTORY, GENEALOGY, HERALDRY AND LOCAL HISTORY WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE EASTERN AREA OF GREATER LONDON2) TO PROMOTE THE PRESERVATION, SECURITY AND ACCESSIBILITY OF ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Area of benefit: EASTERN AREA OF GREATER LONDON

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource of £12,199 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £76,146. Per the trustees' report, these reserves are sufficient to comply with the stated policy of maintaining three months of operational costs. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the accounts.

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 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.

• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gary Michael Barneschair
• JANET BARBARA SEWARD
• JEFFERY BERNARD HARVEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kevin Dopson
• MELISSA FORD
• Susan Waine
• VERA BANGS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Barking And Dagenham · Hackney · Havering · Newham · Redbridge · Tower Hamlets

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