BEDFORD HOUSE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1178692 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BHCA

Classes and workshops in a variety of disciplines and acts as a centre for community activities.

Objects

To further or benefit the residents of Buckhurst Hill and the surrounding areas, withoutdistinction of sex, sexual orientation, race or of political, religious or other opinionsby associating together the said residents and the local authorities, voluntary andother organisations in a common effort to advance education, arts, crafts and fitnessand to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisuretime occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life for theresidents.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a breakeven result with a net surplus of £4 for the year ended 31 August 2025. Unrestricted reserves stood at £70,929, which is above the trustees' stated minimum target of £55,000 for unencumbered current assets. The trustees confirmed that sufficient funds are available to continue operating on a going concern basis.

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/05/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sylvia Watsonchair
• Allan Mabert
• David Jacob
• EDWARD JAMES LINDENBERG · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elizabeth Ann Susan Guest
• June Chapman
• Levent Kaya
• OLIVIA LOWE
• Sarah Walsh
• William John Flanagan

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

Operates in: Essex · Newham · Redbridge · Waltham Forest

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BEDFORD STREET COMMUNITY COMPANY LIMITED.

• BEDFORD STREET COMMUNITY COMPANY LIMITED income £215k
• BEDE HOUSE ASSOCIATION income £1.6m
• BEDFORDSHIRE AND LUTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £5.3m
• BEDFORD GREENACRE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL LTD income £8.8m
• NHANCED COMMUNITIES income £182k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN AND ST LEONARD BEDFORD income £128k

Side by side with its peers

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