COMMUNITY SOUTHWARK
Registered charity 1105835 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMMUNITY ACTION SOUTHWARK (CAS), SOUTHWARK COMMUNITY CARE FORUM
To support the voluntary and community sector, promote volunteering, encourage and facilitate partnership working, involvement and active participation, act as the key interface between the sector and statutory bodies, provide capacity building and support to enable sector organisation to manage themselves more efficiently.
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £133,023 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,216,179 and total expenditure of £1,083,156. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £484,994, which equates to approximately 4.7 months of expenditure, falling short of the stated policy target of six months. The trustees remain cautious due to the uncertain economic situation and dependence on time-limited project funding.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Largest income source: Contract Income (43% of income)
“Contract Income 527,015” — page 29
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £485k)
“The charity has therefore, not met its target of six months expenditure in reserve (£642,727) in 2024-25.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Nordens Audit Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Anood, Al-Samerai — Chief Executive Officer (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Property (HM Land Registry)
1 registered title 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.
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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~5.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (07/05/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Carole Brady
- Cedric Whilby · trustee of 1 other charity
- Christopher Brindley Naylor
- Daniel Campbell
- Eleanor Kerslake
- Felicia Boshorin · trustee of 2 other charities
- Michael Christopher Wilson
- Naomi Louise
- Sarah Thurman
- Suleyman Muhidin
- Vladimir Ivanic
- Winnie Baffoe
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Southwark
Income and spending
Common questions
Is COMMUNITY SOUTHWARK financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £133,023 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,216,179 and total expenditure of £1,083,156. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £484,994, which equates to approximately 4.7 months of expenditure, falling short of the stated policy target of six months. The trustees remain cautious due to the uncertain economic situation and dependence on time-limited project funding. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Nordens Audit Limited.
Who funds COMMUNITY SOUTHWARK?
Funders whose own accounts filings name COMMUNITY SOUTHWARK as a grant recipient include GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' FOUNDATION, UNITED ST SAVIOUR'S CHARITY, SOUTHWARK CHARITIES, THE ALAN AND BABETTE SAINSBURY CHARITABLE FUND, CHARTERHOUSE-IN-SOUTHWARK.
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