BARTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1102476 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

BCA aims to enhance the life of the inhabitants of Barton by providing community facilities and developing and managing projects of a charitable nature. It has developed a strong record of developing and managing local projects such as a community cafe, social events, family activities, research, youth provision and learning with the core value of the work being led and owned by the community.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BARTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA (NOWKNOWN AS THE AREA OF BENEFIT) WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OFPOLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS ANDTHE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCEEDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION ANDLEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAIDINHABITANTS TO ESTABLISH, OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF, A COMMUNITY CENTRE (HEREINAFTER CALLED"THE CENTRE") AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME (WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATIONWITH ANY LOCAL AUTHORITY OR OTHER PERSON OR BODY IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTSTO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED.

Area of benefit: THE INHABITANTS OF BARTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £9,135 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total unrestricted reserves standing at £127,245. The trustees consider the financial position to be sound and have confirmed that the charity is operating on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified. The charity maintains a reserves policy targeting 3 to 6 months of unrestricted expenditure, and the current unrestricted reserves appear to be within or above this target range based on the stated policy and actual figures.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by King Loose & Co. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/11/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Katy Marsdenchair
• Boris Fedorov
• Catherine Cockram
• Christopher Richmond
• Craig Michael Morbey
• Dr simon david howard heap
• GERALDINE MEGAN MANN
• Julie Findley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Louise Elizabeth Foster
• Mary Theresa Purcell
• PIPPA GWILLIAM
• TANYA SUSAN FIELD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Vasavipriya Kurra

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BARNES COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.

• BARNES COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £300k
• BARTON ACORN YOUTH, COMMUNITY AND SPORTS CENTRE income £232k
• BARAKA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £283k
• BOLTON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION income £336k
• BOTCHERBY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £222k
• BRITISH CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION income £185k

Side by side with its peers

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