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.

Objects

15.1 TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE PUBLIC WHO LIVE AND WORK IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK AND SURROUNDING LONDON BOROUGHS, INCLUDING: TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, PROTECT HEALTH, RELIEVE POVERTY DISTRESS AND SICKNESS, PROMOTE VOLUNTARY WORK AND A VOLUNTEER SERVICE AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE AIM OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE PUBLIC.15.2 TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF VOLUNTARY AND CHARITABLE SECTOR ORGANISATIONS PROVIDING HEALTH, COMMUNITY CARE AND CHILDREN’S AND FAMILY SERVICES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND PARTICULARLY, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE PUBLIC WHO LIVE AND WORK IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK AND SURROUNDING LONDON BOROUGHS, THROUGH PROMOTING GOOD PRACTICE AND PARTNERSHIPS WITHIN THE VOLUNTARY AND CHARITABLE SECTOR.

Area of benefit: THE LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK AND SURROUNDING LONDON BOROUGHS

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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Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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

Accounts audited by Nordens Audit Limited. Discloses 3 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

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

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

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 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/05/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• 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

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SALFORD COMMUNITY & VOLUNTARY SERVICES.

• SALFORD COMMUNITY & VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £6.4m
• SOUTHWARK COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST income £259k
• WALNEY COMMUNITY TRUST income £180k
• STAINLAND AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY CHARITY income £33k
• SURREY COMMUNITY ACTION income £695k
• CITIZENS ADVICE SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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