NEWHAM COMMUNITY RENEWAL PROGRAMME LIMITED

Registered charity 275796 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as N C R P LTD, THE RENEWAL PROGRAMME

Main area of activity is London Borough of Newham. Current activities include: medium level support for homeless 16-25 year olds; specialised support for homeless adults with alcohol and substance issues; training for disadvantaged students; crisis support for refugees; advocacy and advice for informal carers; children and young people's work; and operating community facilities.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF GREATER LONDON WITH PREFERENCE BEING GIVEN TO THE LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAM AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION.

Area of benefit: WITHIN BOUNDARIES OF GREATER LONDON WITH PREFERENCE GIVEN TO LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAM

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £773,280, which the trustees consider to be in line with their policy target of holding three to six months' expenditure (£400,000–£800,000). Per the trustees' report, the charity has sufficient resources to continue operations for the foreseeable future, although it recognizes the need to strengthen and diversify funding sources.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Griffin Stone Moscrop & Co. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01327924

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Renewal Programme (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Peter — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Louise — Director of Training & Youth (source)
• Damian — Director of Support and Empowerment (source)
• Viola — Director of Operations (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• VAKOS, Claire Louise — director, appointed 11/11/2024on trustee list
• MORGAN, Tania — director, appointed 11/11/2024on trustee list
• SHURIN, Jared — director, appointed 15/07/2024on trustee list
• BHANDARI, Romit, Dr — director, appointed 15/07/2024on trustee list
• MAKWANA, Sanjay — director, appointed 06/11/2023on trustee list
• ELDRIDGE, Dave Anthony — director, appointed 07/10/2022on trustee list
• GIBBS, Ian Webster Edward — director, appointed 24/08/2022on trustee list
• SKOURTIS, Alex — director, appointed 07/12/2020on trustee list
• OKAFOR, Ifeoma — director, appointed 03/12/2018on trustee list
• LAING, Bernard Peter — secretary, appointed 16/03/2020

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alex Skourtis
• Claire Louise Vakos
• Dave Eldridge
• Gulshun Rehman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Webster Edward Gibbs
• Ifeoma Okafor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jared Shurin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sanjay Makwana
• Tania Morgan

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

Operates in: Newham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Side by side with its peers

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