THE WOODLAWNS CENTRE

Registered charity 1154154 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WOODLAWNS

The charity operates as a venue for hire for weddings, birthday parties, christenings, meetings, seminars and many other events as well as home to a number of small local voluntary organisations that mostly serve the needs of local older people including Streatham Darby and Joan Club. Our premises are often used by many other local voluntary organisations and private individuals for parties etc.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ("THE OBJECTS") ARE TO:4.1 PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF BENEFIT 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;4.2 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;4.3 TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED.THE CHARITY SHALL BE NON-PARTY IN POLITICS AND NON-SECTARIAN IN RELIGION. THE AREA OF BENEFIT SHALL BE THE LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH.

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: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £14,151 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £15,256 to £9,977. Per the trustees' report, the charity is entirely self-financing through lettings and events, receiving no grants from the Council or Government, and holds unrestricted reserves of £6,267 against a policy target of three months' expenditure.

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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08360821

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MORFEY, Michael John — director, appointed 26/04/2024on trustee list
• GUPTA, Raj Kumar — director, appointed 26/04/2024on trustee list
• DUNIPACE, Phyllis — director, appointed 03/05/2019not on trustee list
• CATTERMOLE, Christopher Nicholas — director, appointed 01/03/2019on trustee list
• BOWDERY, Roger Charles James — director, appointed 22/06/2017on trustee list
• ATKINS, Elizabeth Ann, Cllr — director, appointed 01/05/2015not on trustee list
• HOOBERMAN, Simon Mark — secretary, appointed 15/01/2013

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROGER BOWDERYchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Nicholas Cattermole · trustee of 3 other charities
• Cllr Liz Atkins
• MICHAEL JOHN MORFEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Phyllis Dunipace OBE
• Raj Gupta

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster · Croydon · Lambeth · Merton · Southwark · Wandsworth

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WOODHOUSE CENTRE.

• THE WOODHOUSE CENTRE income £45k
• PARK LANE CENTRE income £359k
• WOODLANDS COMMUNITY CENTRE LIMITED income £123k
• LALEHAM VILLAGE HALL income £29k
• NORTON HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTRE income £28k
• WOODHAM VILLAGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £37k

Side by side with its peers

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