Restore Community

Registered charity 1165654 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ABOVE + BEYOND, BEYOND OURSELVES

Restore Community was set up to run community transformation projects. It is currently running the Oakwood Hill Community Centre and one in Trinity Church as well as the Loughton Grow Community Garden. The charity also delivers education and community support to a number of communities in Northern Zambia.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £33,272 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £256,241 to £222,969. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £3,527, which is below the stated policy target of two to four months of operational expenditure. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09666871

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Restore Community (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HALE, Stephen — director, appointed 18/10/2023on trustee list
• GRANGER, Ann — director, appointed 12/10/2022on trustee list
• VAN JAARSVELD, Andries Bernardus Johannes — director, appointed 02/07/2015not on trustee list
• MACKEY, Joanne — secretary, appointed 19/07/2024

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BERNARD VAN JAARSVELDchair
• Ann Granger · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Peter Hale · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Enfield · Essex · Redbridge · Zambia

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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