BARLOW MOOR COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1142217 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BMCA LIMITED

1) To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Barlow Moor and its invirons. In a common effort to advance education2) To provide facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation 3) To secure the establishment of a community centre and to maintain and manage the same.4) such other purposes as may be charitable according to the law in England and Wales.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a deficit of £33,912, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling to £131,382. The trustees note that free reserves stand at just under three months of running costs, which is below their stated policy target of approximately four months. Despite this shortfall and rising operational costs, the trustees consider the charity to be a going concern.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — BMCA Ltd (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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: 2.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/04/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cathy Dell
• Cllr Joanna Rachel Midgley · trustee of 2 other charities
• Clover Hudson
• Helen Sharples
• Rev Thomas William Phipps · trustee of 1 other charity
• Victoria Samantha Nicholas

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

Operates in: Manchester City · Trafford

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Rev Thomas William Phipps — trustee here and at THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH WEST DIDSBURY AND ST CHRISTOPHER WITHINGTON

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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