THE TREES COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1150790 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WILLINGDON TREES COMMUNITY CENTRE

To maintain and manage the Willingdon Trees Community Centre, Eastbourne.To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of the Willingdon Trees Estate as set out our constitution by associating together the said inhabitants and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations to provide facilities with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants;

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF INHABITANTS OF WILLINGDON TREES ESTATE AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD DEFINED BY THE GEOGRAPHIC BOARDERS OF HAZELWOOD AVENUE AND MAYWOOD AVENUE AND OF ANY NO THROUGH ROADS LEADING OFF MAYWOOD AVENUE AND HAZELWOOD AVENUE (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE AREA OF BENEFIT") WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF GENDER, DISABILITY, ETHNICITY, NATIONALITY, AGE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY THE ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL 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, ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE CENTRE") AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME (WHETHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY LOCAL AUTHORITY OR OTHER PERSON OR BODY) IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTIVES.TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED. THE ASSOCIATION SHALL BE NON-PARTY IN POLITICS AND NON-SECTARIAN IN RELIGION.

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

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Registered contact address: Eastbourne, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity experienced a dramatic curtailment of activities due to a failure to obtain Lottery Grant finance, yet it remained solvent with net assets of £17,787. The trustees report that careful financial management allowed the organization to 'keep its head above water' despite these difficult circumstances. 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 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 30/03/2022, 58 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Colin Swansboroughchair
• Rev Danny Lee Pegg
• William James Pratt

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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