BOURNE END (BUCKINGHAMSHIRE) COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 300236 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEBCA, BOURNE END COMMUNITY CENTRE

To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Bourne End & Wooburn without distinction of sex,sexual orientation,race or of political,religious or other opinions,by associating together with local authorities and organisations in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities for social welfare, recreation and leisure-time occupation and to maintain and manage a Community Centre.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BOURNE END AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISTATION AND INHABITANTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS, AND TO ESTABLISH A COMMUNITY CENTRE

Area of benefit: BOURNE END AND NEIGHBOURHOOD

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

Registered contact address: Buckinghamshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported an operating loss of £11,663 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by a reduction in letting income and occupation licence fees. Despite the deficit, the charity maintains strong liquidity with unrestricted net current assets of £136,381, which the trustees state represents approximately 13 months of expenditure, well above their policy target of six to twelve 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 4 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.

• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 10/02/2024, 102 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Myra Hurleychair
• Andrew Philip Smith
• BILL HUDSON
• Carolyn Jane Judge
• Clive Stephen James Bourne
• Dave Foster · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Ronald Whittaker
• David Stanley Algar
• Diane Isobel Hall
• Elizabeth Ann Hutton
• Elizabeth Ellen Payne
• Jane Lesley Clarke
• John Bernard Marsh
• Kenneth Almeida
• MICHAEL CHARLES APPLEYARD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marian Isabel Wills
• Michael Peter Judge
• Mike Charles Bellamy
• PETER WEBB
• Paul Joseph Hurley
• Peter David Robins
• Peter Howard Beard
• Riccardo Accastello
• Richard Mathias
• Roger David De Coverly
• Roger Jeremy Wort
• Rosemary Start
• Simon Peter Fowke
• Stuart Paul Wilson
• Sue Wagner
• Tracy Greenfield

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• BUCKLAND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £213k
• BUCKLAND RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION income £26k
• BUTETOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £196k
• LANE END YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION income £39k
• ELSTREE BOREHAMWOOD AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £359k
• MILL END AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £94k

Side by side with its peers

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