FRIENDS OF BARHAM LIBRARY

Registered charity 1142113 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FOBL

Assisting in the running of a local library for the benefit of local people.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY RUNNING AND/OR ASSISTING IN THE RUNNING OF THE BARHAM PARK LIBRARY, WEMBLEY, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE LOCAL RESIDENTS.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £34,758 for the year ended 31 March 2025, bringing total reserves to £409,445. The trustees consider the financial performance satisfactory and believe the charity is financially secure with sufficient funds to continue its activities. The charity is dependent on generating income from donations, grants, and rental contributions to maintain its going concern status.

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.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Chirag Gir · trustee of 1 other charity
• Francis Paul Henry · trustee of 2 other charities
• PAUL LORBER · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Brent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRIENDS OF BE'ER MIRIAM.

• FRIENDS OF BE'ER MIRIAM income £34k
• FRIENDS OF HONLEY LIBRARY income £52k
• FRIENDS OF JESMOND LIBRARY income £65k
• THE FRIENDS OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY income £1.6m
• THE FRIENDS OF ST MARY'S CHURCH, BUNGAY income £27k
• FRIENDS OF SOUTHWOLD LIBRARY income £46k

Side by side with its peers

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