LONDON BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1164277 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LBA

The promotion of community participation in healthy recreation by the provision of basketball and basketball related activities and the advancement of education for the public benefit in such ways as the trustees see fit.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION BY THE PROVISION OF BASKETBALL AND BASKETBALL RELATED ACTIVITIES; ANDTHE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £134,624 for the year ended 31 July 2025, resulting in total net assets increasing to £524,370. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves have risen to £423,120, which is above their stated policy target of holding reserves in the region of nine months of operating expenditure. The financial position is described as resilient, with the charity benefiting from strong income performance and successful crowdfunding activity.

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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Social media 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)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Councillor Ronald Mushiso
• Fara Johnson
• HARVINDER BHUI

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON RUGBY LEAGUE FOUNDATION.

• LONDON RUGBY LEAGUE FOUNDATION income £145k
• THE LONDON BAPTIST ASSOCIATION income £2.3m
• GREATER MANCHESTER COMMUNITY BASKETBALL AND SPORTS ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £316k
• THE TENNIS & RACKETS ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £654k
• IN THE GAME income £73k
• THE LONDON SPORTS TRUST income £669k

Side by side with its peers

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