BEDE HOUSE ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 303199 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE IN PARTICULAR FOR PERSONS IN THE LONDON BOROUGHS OF LAMBETH, LEWISHAM, AND SOUTHWARK THROUGH THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, EDUCATING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPABILITIES AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS COUNCIL MEMBERS SHALL DETERMINE

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE IN PARTICULAR FOR PERSONS IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH, LEWISHAM, AND SOUTHWARK THROUGH THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, EDUCATING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPABILITIES AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS COUNCIL MEMBERS SHALL DETERMINE

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGHS OF LAMBETH, LEWISHAM, 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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £71,545 for the year, with total funds increasing to £1,850,103. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stand at £1,064,580 (or £788,631 excluding designated reserves), which represents just under six months' operating expenditure and aligns with the stated policy target. The trustees confirm 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 Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bede House Association (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• GWF — “Thank you to all of the funders that make our work possible!” (source page)
• Southwark Council — “Thank you to all of the funders that make our work possible!” (source page)
• Lottery Community Fund — “Thank you to all of the funders that make our work possible!” (source page)
• Refuge — “Thank you to all of the funders that make our work possible!” (source page)
• Henry Smith Charity — “Thank you to all of the funders that make our work possible!” (source page)
• Gaia Foundation — “Thank you to all of the funders that make our work possible!” (source page)
• ABS — “Thank you to all of the funders that make our work possible!” (source page)
• St Olave's — “Thank you to all of the funders that make our work possible!” (source page)
• TFL — “Thank you to all of the funders that make our work possible!” (source page)
• Rotherhithe Community Charity — “Thank you to all of the funders that make our work possible!” (source page)
• Alchemy Foundation — “Thank you to all of the funders that make our work possible!” (source page)
• Amber River Foundation — “Thank you to all of the funders that make our work possible!” (source page)
• American Institute for Foreign Study — “Thank you to all of the funders that make our work possible!” (source page)
• Ardwick Trust — “Thank you to all of the funders that make our work possible!” (source page)
• Aspinwall Charity — “Thank you to all of the funders that make our work possible!” (source page)

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (81% 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: 1.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Olga Anna Franczak
• Eleanor Rowland
• JULIE COTTON
• Jerome Flechais
• Kyrre Haugen
• Robert Ogilvie
• Rosalind Kate Wynne-Jones
• Sacha Philippe Dingomal
• Shane Gearoid Murphy
• Yasemin Edith Mary Isik
• Youssef Banine

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

Operates in: Lambeth · Lewisham · Southwark

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• BEDFORD HOUSE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £295k
• BEDWELL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £202k
• BEDFORD BLUES FOUNDATION income £513k
• MANCHESTER SETTLEMENT income £1.8m
• THE MARDEN HOUSE CENTRE income £65k
• PUDSEY WELLBEING CHARITY income £72k

Side by side with its peers

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