WOODVALE AND AINSDALE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1146522 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WACA

Arts/Crafts, Blokarting, Bike Maintenance, Canoeing, Chair Based Exercise, Climbing Wall, Community Choir, Employability Training Course, afternoon lunches for older people, Cooking and Healthy Eating courses, Computers, Mums/tots Club, Martial Arts Club, Bike Maintenance classes, Mountain biking sessions, Staying Safe-Self Defence for Women, Tai Chi and chair Tai Chi and youth activities.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (“OBJECTS”) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING: 1) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF WOODVALE, AINSDALE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AGE, DISABILITY, NATIONALITY, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS;2) TO ESTABLISH, OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF, A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME (WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY OR OTHER PERSON OR BODY) IN FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTS;3) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES FOR THE BENFIT OF THE PUBLIC AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED.

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £20,520 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £166,541 to £146,021. Per the trustees' report, net reserves stood at £97,304, which is above the agreed policy target of £55,000. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention requiring further understanding of the accounts.

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.

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
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALISON FIONA MARSHALLchair
• ANNE BURMAN
• Amy Lauren Suthren
• Arianne Clarke
• Lindsay Pendleton
• Lynne Thompson

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

Operates in: Sefton

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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