WATERLOO ACTION CENTRE

Registered charity 284591 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

(1) The relief of poverty, sickness and distress, the protection of health and the advancement of education(2) The provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation in the interests of social welfare, such facilities being provided with the object of improving the conditions of life of the persons for whom they are primarily intended. Those persons having need of such

Objects

1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION. 2. THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, SUCH FACILITIES BEING PROVIDED WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THEPERSONS FOR WHOM THEY ARE PRIMARILY INTENDED, THOSE PERSONS HAVING NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES.

Area of benefit: NORTHERN PARTS OF LONDON BOROUGHS OF LAMBETH AND SOUTHWARK

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £13,010 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. Per the trustees' report, the charity remains in a sound financial position with total reserves of £178,985, although unrestricted free reserves are modest at £5,136. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern for the next 12 to 18 months.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. 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
• 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
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• George Austin Thomas
• George Jean Beguinot
• HOWARD SIMMONS · trustee of 1 other charity
• JENNIFER BERYL STILES · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Patrick Deane
• Katie Louise Barker
• Kirsty Victoria Quinn Oliveira
• ROBERT HAYWARD

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

Operates in: Lambeth

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• WATERLOO COMMUNITY COUNSELLING income £642k
• THE WATERLOO FOUNDATION income £15.5m
• THE BRIDGE AT WATERLOO income £131k
• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF WATERLOO income £1.0m
• WATER FALL income £516k

Side by side with its peers

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