QPR IN THE COMMUNITY TRUST

Registered charity 1127806 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

QPR in the Community Trust provides opportunities in 7 West London boroughs based on the objectives of Health, Education, Social Inclusion & Participation, tackling National issues at a local level.The Trust recognises the power that football/the football Club has, reaching around 25,000 participants yearly aged 2-90, breaking down barriers to participation & creating safer, positive communities.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (INCLUDING, IN PARTICULAR, THE INHABITANTS OF LONDON AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS) AND OVERSEAS AND, IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING:1 TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE PLAYING OF ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL AND OTHER SPORTS CAPABLE OF IMPROVING HEALTH ("FACILITIES" IN THIS CLAUSE MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES);2 TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR SPORT, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF CHARITY; AND4 FOR THE GENERAL PURPOSES OF SUCH CHARITABLE BODIES OR FOR SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN EACH CASE AS HE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Area of benefit: LONDON AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a deficit of £460,531 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds to £418,239. The trustees report that a restructure is in progress and costs are being cut to enhance the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds 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)

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/05/2025 (received 02/06/2026, 63 days after the 31/03/2026 due date); year ending 31/05/2023 (received 17/04/2024, 17 days after the 31/03/2024 due date); year ending 31/05/2021 (received 27/05/2022, 57 days after the 31/03/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (59% 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: 90.6% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ruben Emir Gnanalingamchair
• Andrew Sinton
• CHARLES LEO HOOS
• Eamon Sullivan
• Francesca Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOANNA KENNEDY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mohammed Khaliel
• Nick De Marco KC

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

Operates in: Brent · City Of Westminster · Ealing · Hammersmith And Fulham · Harrow · Hillingdon · Kensington And Chelsea

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HARBOROUGH TOWN COMMUNITY TRUST.

• HARBOROUGH TOWN COMMUNITY TRUST income £419k
• WARRINGTON TOWN IN THE COMMUNITY LTD income £36k
• PRESTON NORTH END COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION TRUST income £1.8m
• WATFORD FC'S COMMUNITY SPORTS & EDUCATION TRUST income £3.0m
• EXETER CITY COMMUNITY TRUST income £2.5m
• WAKEFIELD TRINITY COMMUNITY TRUST income £498k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.