ELIMHOUSE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION SOUTHWARK

Registered charity 1161422 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ECAS

The main activities of the organisation is a full time day community care for older people (5 days per week) for older people (Over 60s) in particularly but not exclusively Caribbean and African in residents in the London Borough of Southwark, Activities provide ensures access to community care, leisure time occupation and community care activities, support and services for the elderly.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH OF THE LOCAL INHABITANTS BY MEANS OF COMMUNITY CARE. TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND DISTRESS OF THE LOCAL INHABITANTS PARTICULARLY PERSONS OF CARIBBEAN DESCENT WHO ARE VULNERABLE AND ARE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO BY THE REASON OF AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY ARE IN NEED OF CARE AND ATTENTION.

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£229k
Latest spending
£183k
Registered
2015
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported total income of £229,394 and net expenditure of £182,508, resulting in a net surplus of £46,886 for the year. The trustees' report confirms that retained unrestricted reserves stood at £86,597, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet three months of operational costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of operational costs (held: £87k)
“The trustee’s have decided to hold and maintain in reserves funds to meet 3 months’ of the operational costs of the Community Centre”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 9
  • Government income: £189,450 — contracts £94,725 (2), grants £94,725 (2); 83% of the £229,394 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 3

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 8
  • Government income: £180,506 — grants £180,506 (4); 100% of the £180,506 total gross income on the same return

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£229k£183k
31/03/2024£150k£172k
31/03/2023£181k£159k
31/03/2022£122k£98k
31/03/2021£90k£74k

Common questions

Is ELIMHOUSE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION SOUTHWARK financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported total income of £229,394 and net expenditure of £182,508, resulting in a net surplus of £46,886 for the year. The trustees' report confirms that retained unrestricted reserves stood at £86,597, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet three months of operational costs. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds ELIMHOUSE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION SOUTHWARK?

Funders whose own accounts filings name ELIMHOUSE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION SOUTHWARK as a grant recipient include CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTONFY2022£22kOlder People & Housing Programme
CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTONFY2023£18kOlder People & Housing

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
City Bridge Foundation22/09/2023£122kGrant to Elimhouse Community Association Southwark
London Borough of Southwark31/03/2022£15kGrant to Elimhouse Community Association
The Mercers' Company24/09/2021£41kGrant to Elimhouse Community Association Southwark
The National Lottery Community Fund22/01/2021£10kA Breadfruit Kitchen For Older People
The National Lottery Community Fund20/12/2018£7k"You and Yours 0 60s" Southwark

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ELLERAY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
ELIMHOUSE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION SOUTHWARK£229k—0unclear—no doubt
ELLERAY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2025£229kup to £60,0000unclear—no doubt
JOHN AND ELIZA JELLEY HOMES FOR OLD PEOPLE FY2025£147k——unclear—no doubt
EAST DULWICH COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION FY2025£51k—0unclear—no doubt
ELIZABETH DOWELL'S ALMSHOUSE TRUST FY2025£69k—0above—no doubt
MORLEY ELDERLY ACTION FY2025£173k—0unclear—no doubt

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