THE BOSCO CENTRE

Registered charity 1157639 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

a nursery for children from 4months to rising 5year olds An after school junior club from 5-11 year olds a youth club for 12-16year olds a vocational college for 15 year olds and over Objective information advice and guidance for all ages

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE;TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS, PARTICULARLY BY THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND ADVICE, AND PROVIDING HOUSING ACCOMMODATION.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £143,690 for the year ended 31 July 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £4,765,137, which is significantly above the trustees' stated policy target of three years' operating costs. The charity holds substantial fixed asset investment property valued at £950,000 and maintains strong cash reserves.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cocke, Vellacott & Hill. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 2 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Investment
• 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~32.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/04/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNABEL CLARKSON
• MATTHEW FARRELL BSC
• PRIM CAMPBELL
• SISTER NORMA KIRKBY
• VALERIE STAPLETON

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

Operates in: Southwark

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YOUTH CLUB PRE-SCHOOL.

• YOUTH CLUB PRE-SCHOOL income £222k
• BOOMERANG KIDS income £1.1m
• THE BATH HOUSE CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY CENTRE income £821k
• YOUNG PERSONS CENTRE income £525k
• NETHERTHONG PRE-SCHOOL AND OUT OF SCHOOL CLUB income £221k
• THE PETER ASHLEY ACTIVITY CENTRES income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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