WANSTEAD HOUSE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 303190 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WANSTEAD AND WOODFORD COMMUNITY CENTRE

Provision of adult education classes, family learning courses, clubs, groups, activities for junior, teenage and adult members of the local community together with functions, social events, fund raising and workshops. Partnerships with local authority, education centre, community police, counselling groups, workskill workshops and other community groups.

Objects

COMMUNITY CENTRE

Area of benefit: WANSTEAD AND WOODFORD

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £1,804 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a slight decrease in total unrestricted funds. However, the trustees confirm that free reserves of £312,964 are sufficient to meet day-to-day operations and absorb operational losses, ensuring the charity remains well-placed to continue its activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Samuels LLP. 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Tucker
• BERNARD JAMES HARTE
• Colin Whitehead
• David Gibbs · trustee of 1 other charity
• JANET FOX
• Jeremy Tarling
• MARK ROBERT ARTHUR MURRELL
• MAUREEN ENEBERI
• Maria Coyle
• PATTIE PATRICIA
• Ray Muna
• SANDRA NICHOLS

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

Operates in: Redbridge

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).