PADDINGTON RECREATION GROUND

Registered charity 295449 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The activities carried on by the Trust can be found in the Management Plan. Paddington Recreation Ground has been awarded the Civic Trusts Green Flag Award for the past 9 years. This is a national standard for parks that meet high operational and maintenance standards which are assessed annually by judges appointed by the Civic Trust.

Objects

A PUBLIC RECREATION GROUND.

Area of benefit: PADDINGTON

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 reported a surplus of £12,373 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £4,618,902. The charity relies entirely on Westminster City Council for ongoing financial support, noting that any expenditure not met by direct income is covered by the Council. The trustees and auditor confirmed there are 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 audited by Sumer 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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~66.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL- MEMBERS

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PADDINGTON FARM TRUST LIMITED.

• PADDINGTON FARM TRUST LIMITED income £160k
• WEST HAM PARK income £1.7m
• FOLKESTONE PARKS AND PLEASURE GROUNDS CHARITY income £1.3m
• STEVENS PARK AND RECREATION GROUND income £247k
• LONDON HISTORIC PARKS AND GARDENS TRUST income £269k
• Greenacre Trust Limited income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.