ACTIVE COMMUNITIES NETWORK LIMITED

Registered charity 1121216 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LONDON ACTIVE COMMUNITIES LTD

Delivery of projects within deprived neighbourhoods. Provision of personal development and training opportunities for young people and volunteers across London. Research and evaluation to evidence the impact of activity.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE BOTH NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS WITH THE OBJECTS OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS AND WITH THE VIEW OF REDUCING SOCIAL ISOLATION AND BUILDING COMMUNITY COHESION.

Area of benefit: LONDON AND THE SOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £152,121 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £1,879,562 and outgoing resources of £1,727,441. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £192,596, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet the policy target of exceeding six months' estimated operating costs. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MCA Audit Limited. 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

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/09/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Councillor William Jean Charles Houngbo Cllr.
• Edward James Hepworth
• Henry Connolly
• Lorraine Morrissey-McCann
• Mary Nolan
• Philip Samuel Evans
• Professor Claire Alexander

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · South Africa · Throughout England And Wales

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 ACTIVE LIFE LIMITED.

• ACTIVE LIFE LIMITED income £9.2m
• FOUNDATION FOR ACTIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT income £728k
• ACTIVE COMMUNITY TRUST LTD income £503k
• YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CONNEXIONS income £491k
• HAMPSTEAD COMMUNITY ACTION LIMITED income £421k
• CREATIVE YOUTH NETWORK income £3.1m

Side by side with its peers

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