SANDS END ARTS & COMMUNITY CENTRE

Registered charity 1191900 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity maintains and manages an arts and community centre for use by all the people living in or near Sands End, Fulham, London. It provides a meeting place, community cafe, facilities for arts, health and well being activities, leisure pursuits and a home for community events.It is run by local trustees who will ensure that everyone is welcome and that the centre is accessible to all

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF SANDS END AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE ARTS, EDUCATION, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS, BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ARTS AND COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE IT.

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 recorded a net deficit of £35,921 for the year ended 31 December 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves decreased to £64,052, which remains above the stated policy target of three months' expenditure, and the trustees consider the current funding adequate to support the charity in the medium term.

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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Hammersmith & Fulham Council — “The award-winning building was commissioned by Hammersmith & Fulham Council and funded in its entirety by Tideway and Chelsea Football Club.” (source page)
• Tideway — “The award-winning building was commissioned by Hammersmith & Fulham Council and funded in its entirety by Tideway and Chelsea Football Club.” (source page)
• Chelsea Football Club — “The award-winning building was commissioned by Hammersmith & Fulham Council and funded in its entirety by Tideway and Chelsea Football Club.” (source page)
• LBHF King’s Coronation Youth Fund — “Thanks to support from the LBHF King’s Coronation Youth Fund, SEACC has been delivering Faces of Fulham , an exciting film and photography …” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Timothy Paul Pragerchair
• Benjamin Coleman MP
• Elizabeth Jane Henderson
• Jeremy David Fisher
• John Geoffrey Goddard
• Sabine McIntosh

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

Operates in: Hammersmith And Fulham

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SANDYLANDS SPORTS CENTRE.

• SANDYLANDS SPORTS CENTRE income £323k
• WEST END WOMEN AND GIRLS CENTRE CIO income £441k
• SOUTHBANK CENTRE income £58.3m
• THE HOUNSLOW ARTS TRUST LTD income £824k
• SEDGEFIELD ARTS RECREATION AND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £209k
• WEST END (BURNLEY) CIO income £196k

Side by side with its peers

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