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.

Objects

(1)THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP IN AREAS OF THE UK AND OVERSEAS BY SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD, ESSENTIAL TOILETRIES, AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEED;B) SUCH OTHER MEANS, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT OR SIGNPOSTING TO RELEVANT INFORMATION AND OTHER ADVISORY SERVICES;C) THE RUNNING OF A PROJECT WORKING WITH THE INHABITANTS OF NORTHERN ZAMBIA (BEYOND OURSELVES).(2)TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY.”

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

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.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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
• 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.

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
• Karen Frances Humeniuk · 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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Charities like this

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

• RESTORE COMMUNITY CHURCH income £520k
• Re-Form Heritage income £784k
• RESTORE CHURCH BOSTON income £577k
• OUGHTRINGTON COMMUNITY CENTRE income £42k
• CECILY'S FUND income £374k
• REDEEMING OUR COMMUNITIES income £485k

Side by side with its peers

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