COLOMBO STREET COMMUNITY AND SPORTS CENTRE

Registered charity 292623 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COLOMBO CENTRE

The Centre offers a range of affordable & accessible sports, community and leisure activities for the communities of Southwark and Lambeth; Facilities include a sports hall, gymnasium, 4 outdoor sports courts, cycling studio, therapy room. Activities provided include tennis, community football sessions for children and young people, netball, sports camps during school holidays

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THOSE RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON GREATER LONDON WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX AND OF POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND SAID RESIDENTS AND WORKER IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND TO PROVIDE FULL-TIME 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 RESIDENTS AND WORKERS.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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 generated a surplus of £79,831 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves totaling £539,010. The trustees report that these reserves fall within the stated policy target of two to three months of operational expenditure, and cash resources are sufficient to cover eight months of operating costs. Consequently, the management committee considers there to be no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 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 ~11.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% 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: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Leonard Ian Goodrichchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alice Holmes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ann Peppas · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Charles Symons · trustee of 2 other charities
• Claire Reindorp · trustee of 2 other charities
• Elizabeth Frimpong · trustee of 1 other charity
• Fen Gee Weng Sung · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jo-Anna van den Bosch · trustee of 1 other charity
• PETER CRANSTON STEPHENS · trustee of 2 other charities
• Patrick Wallace · trustee of 1 other charity
• Theodore Michael Becchetti · trustee of 1 other charity
• Yvonne Owusu-Afriyie · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Lambeth · Southwark

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• COLBURN COMMUNITY SPORTS CENTRE income £301k
• EASTBOURNE SAFFRONS SPORTS CLUB TRUST LIMITED income £229k
• MELTHAM SPORTS AND COMMUNITY GROUP LIMITED income £134k
• SOUTHWARK COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST income £259k
• NORTON SPORTS CHARITY income £1.2m
• ST MARY'S COLLEGE SPORTS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY income £203k

Side by side with its peers

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