BANSTEAD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 304970 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

BCA is principally involved in providing a Community Hall to accommodate the activities of its Constituent Groups, as well as providing space for other activities of interest to the residents of Banstead and the surrounding areas both through local charities and on a commercial basis. The programme covers a broad range of leisure and sporting activities and is well supported.

Objects

(A) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF THE NORTH EAST AND SOUTH EAST WARDS OF BANSTEAD URBAN DISTRICT WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR OF POLITICAL, RELIQIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND INHABITANTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH TH OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS. (B) TO ESTABLISH OR TO SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMMUNITY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE OR TO CO-OPERATE WITH ANY LOCAL STATUTORY AUTHORITY IN THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF SUCH A CENTRE FOR ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY THE SAID ASSOCIATION AND ITS CONSTITUENT BODIES IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS.

Area of benefit: SEE OBJECTS

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 · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Recreation · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted cash reserves are maintained at a level sufficient to cover running costs, significant cost increases, urgent expenses, and planned maintenance, with a stated target of £100,000. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted cash funds increased from £129,285 to £147,388, exceeding the minimum reserve targets outlined in the policy.

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 3 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Gabriel Crowleychair
• Alan Frost
• Anne Ford
• Barbara Salmon
• DAVID STANLEY PETERKEN
• David Talbot
• Gail Fraser
• Jonathan James Collins
• MAURICE TREVOR OWEN
• Malcolm Ash
• Malcolm John CUNNINGS
• Nigel Rix
• Pamela Ann Parker · trustee of 1 other charity
• RODERICK ARTHUR McFARLANE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Collier
• SAM WALSH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sally Anne Parker
• Sarah Mary Mewett
• Sheila Elizabeth Pendray Banton
• William Benjamin Mills

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

Operates in: Surrey

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