THE PARADISE CO-OPERATIVE

Registered charity 1159176 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

A charity focused on community development and education through sustainable food growing.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1. TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY FACILITIES FOR EDUCATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, THROUGH BEST ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICE INCLUDING THE USE OF NO CHEMICALS AND MINIMAL USE OF MACHINERY.

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 · Get email alerts

Latest income

£189k

Latest spending

£138k

Registered

2014

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £20,499, held for expected legal fees and as a contingency fund. The trustees report that the charity remains dependent on a single field site held under an agreement with the Ministry of Justice and on generating income from school education courses.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Paradise Co-Operative (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

MR S THOMPSONchair
Eleanor Jane Malcolm
Joanne Osborn
Paul Stewart David James Dennis
Radhika Trivedi
Shriya Samarth
VERA DUBROVINA-THOMPSON

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

Operates in: Wandsworth

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£189k	£138k
31/12/2023	£103k	£99k
31/12/2022	£71k	£67k
31/12/2021	£29k	£25k
31/12/2020	£22k	£32k

Common questions

Is THE PARADISE CO-OPERATIVE financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £20,499, held for expected legal fees and as a contingency fund. The trustees report that the charity remains dependent on a single field site held under an agreement with the Ministry of Justice and on generating income from school education courses. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	09/10/2024	£358k	Community Growing at The Paradise Cooperative
The National Lottery Community Fund	30/06/2021	£82k	The Paradise Cooperative
The National Lottery Community Fund	09/12/2015	£6k	Polytunnels for Dobbins' Field, Wandsworth

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
TALBOT VILLAGE TRUST	1	£10k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHRIST PARADISE CHURCH TRUST.

CHRIST PARADISE CHURCH TRUST income £111k
Parley Community Pre School income £119k
PARR STREET EVANGELICAL CHURCH income £283k
PARAYHOUSE SCHOOL income £2.0m
PARACLETOS income £307k
PALACE FOR ALL LIMITED income £160k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE PARADISE CO-OPERATIVE	£189k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
CHRIST PARADISE CHURCH TRUST FY2025	£111k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
Parley Community Pre School FY2025	£119k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
PARR STREET EVANGELICAL CHURCH FY2025	£283k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
PARAYHOUSE SCHOOL FY2025	£2.0m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
PARACLETOS FY2025	£307k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.