LONGFORD PARK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1181953 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

PROMOTE LONGFORD PARK AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD TOGETHER DEFINED BY PHASES 1-4 OF THE LONGFORD PARK DEVELOPMENT IN BANBURY, ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION.Operate community events and community centre (eventually)

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO: (1) PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF LONGFORD PARK AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD TOGETHER DEFINED BY PHASES 1-4 OF THE LONGFORD PARK DEVELOPMENT IN BANBURY (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE AREA OF BENEFIT") WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, NATIONALITY, AGE, DISABILITY, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS.IN FURTHERNCE OF THESE OBJECTS, BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHAL, HAVE POWER:TO ESTABLISH, OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT, OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE CENTRE") AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE OR CO OPERATE WITH ANY STATUTORY AUTHORITY IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF THE CENTRE FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE CHARITY IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS; (2) PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINEDTHE ASSOCIATION SHALL BE NON PARTY IN POLITICS AND NON SECTARIAN IN RELIGION.

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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Registered contact address: Cherwell, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £84,327 comfortably exceed the charity's stated policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The charity reports a positive net asset position of £106,891 and confirms it remains a going concern able to meet its obligations.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 02/08/2023, 183 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 16/03/2023, 409 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Natalie Dewberry
• Patricia Ann Foster
• Sebrina Louise O'Rourke

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

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• LONGWOOD VILLAGE GROUP income £32k
• STROUDEN PARK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £56k
• LONG ASHTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £218k
• PARKSIDE COMMUNITY CENTRE income £170k
• BOULTON LANE PARK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £26k
• BUCKHURST PARK COMMUNITY CENTRE income £66k

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