THE POPLAR PARTNERSHIP

Registered charity 1145513 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Tower Hamlets has the highest rate of child poverty in London. It is the second most deprived borough in London and is the third most deprived borough nationally. Poplar is the most deprived ward within Tower Hamlets.The Poplar Partnership is small charity set up to try and tackle these problems at their root, by helping fund and support early intervention projects within our community.

Objects

TO FURTHER SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN TOWER HAMLETS AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO: (A)ADVANCING EDUCATION AND TRAINING;(B)PROMOTING CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP;(C)ADVANCING COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION; (D) PROMOTING RACIAL HARMONY; (E)PROMOTING AND PRESERVING GOOD HEALTH;(F)PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; (G)ADVANCING IN LIFE AND RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS; AND BY (H)PROMOTING THE SOCIAL INCLUSION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE BY PREVENTING THEM FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF THEIR YOUTH AND/OR BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,840, which is significantly lower than its total net assets of £132,408, indicating that the vast majority of funds are restricted. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The filing was subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit.

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 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Patrick Anthony Devereuxchair
• Fiona Margaret Durnian
• MARTIN GRANT

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

Operates in: Tower Hamlets

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TOWER HAMLETS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP.

• TOWER HAMLETS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP income £1.3m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF POPLAR (ALL SAINTS AND ST NICHOLAS) income £221k
• EAST END COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £2.9m
• TOWER HAMLETS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS income £190k
• EARLY YEARS NETWORK TOWER HAMLETS income £413k
• THE LONDON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £9.3m

Side by side with its peers

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