ALLEN'S CROSS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 522842 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our mission is to improve the quality of life for the residents of Allen's Cross and surrounding neighbourhood; aiming to bring together residents, businesses, statutory authorities, voluntary and other organisations to make social, educational and leisure facilities available to all.

Objects

A) TO PROMOTE THE WELL-BEING OF THE COMMUNITY FOR SUCH PURPOSES AS MAY, BY LAW, BE DEEMED TO BE CHARITABLE AND IN PARTICULAR BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND RESIDENTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL TRAINING AND RECREATION, AND SOCIAL MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT AND TO FURTHER HEALTH, AND TO FOSTER A COMMUNITY SPIRIT FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THESE AND OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS.

Area of benefit: ALLENS CROSS, NORTHFIELD AND ADJACENT DISTRICTS

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £177,840 from £128,352 in the prior year, driven largely by grant income. Although the charity reported a net deficit on general funds of £4,848, unrestricted reserves remained healthy at £46,281, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of £22,500.

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 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Allen's Cross Community Association (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Teresa Husseychair
• Emily Foster · trustee of 1 other charity
• Seb Lovell-Huckle
• Stephen Clark
• Sylvia Stanway

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• GERRARDS CROSS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £500k
• COMMUNITY OF ST MARY AT THE CROSS income £2.7m
• ALLESLEY PARK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LTD income £124k
• COMMUNITY OF THE HOLY CROSS income £408k
• THE ALICE CROSS CENTRE income £236k
• CHURCHDOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £203k

Side by side with its peers

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