LOWER GRANGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
Registered charity 1159081 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LGCA
Lower Grange Community Association is a voluntary lead Charitable Incorporated Organisation and has the responsibility to run and manage Lower Grange Youth & Community Centre within the Bradford West District.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Recreation · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity's reserves and financial position remain healthy, enabling the organization to explore innovative funding streams without mission drift. The trustees aim to maintain a reserve equivalent to six months of operating costs, held in cash, to cover future expenses and winding-up costs. The filing notes a significant transition toward sustainable, core-funded provision following landmark grant funding.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: six months operating costs
“We aim to retain a reserve, held in cash, to provide for six months operating costs, together with a provision for winding up expenses and redundancy payments. Furthermore, it is our aim to maintain a balance within our current account roughly equivalent to six months operating costs.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (29/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- G BALLchair
- Beinda Rawlinson
- Beverley Lister
- Carmen Woodley
- Darvis Wilkins
- Francis - Elizabeth Evans
- Kyle Whitaker
- Marie Bull
- Shantelle Wright
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Bradford City
Income and spending
Common questions
Is LOWER GRANGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity's reserves and financial position remain healthy, enabling the organization to explore innovative funding streams without mission drift. The trustees aim to maintain a reserve equivalent to six months of operating costs, held in cash, to cover future expenses and winding-up costs. The filing notes a significant transition toward sustainable, core-funded provision following landmark grant funding.
Who funds LOWER GRANGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION?
Funders whose own accounts filings name LOWER GRANGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION as a grant recipient include YORKSHIRE BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.
Known funders
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