BRIAR COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1120658 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Youth Club and Junior Youth Club, Bingo, Advise Surgery, Football, Social Events, Outings, Coffee Morning, Faith Groups, Senior Citzens groups. Play Group 5 days a week ages 2-5, Judo, Job Club, Computer Courses, Line Dancing. Briar Community Association operates from the Betty Strathern Centre Myrtle Road Harold Hill but also covers the whole of the Harold Hill Estate.

Objects

(A) PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, NATIONALITY, AGE, DISABILITY, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS;(B) ESTABLISH, OR TO SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT, OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE CENTRE") AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME (WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY OR OTHER PERSON OR BODY) IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS;(C) PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED.

Area of benefit: HAROLD HILL AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

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 · Religious Activities · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds cash assets of £70,538 as of 28th February 2025, an increase from the previous year's £64,754. The trustees report that there is no specific reserves policy in place at the moment, though one is planned for the near future. The independent examiner confirmed that proper accounting records were kept and accounts complied with the 1993 Act.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEVE BUTLERchair
• JACKIE HARWOOD
• LINDA MARGARET BUTLER

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

Operates in: Havering

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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