East London Communitysports Association (ELCSA)
Chairperson's Statement
December 2024
The year 2024 marks 44 years of successfully organising and delivering rugby and many other
sporting activities using facilities at the MemoriaL Park E15. ELCSA. working in partnership with the
London Borough of Newham (LBN), continues to be fully engaged and committed to the provision
and management of facilities for amateur organised sport and recreation at the Park. covering a
wide variety of clubs and associations, and involving local people.
Sports users cover 55 different sports clubs and societies, with a wide diversity of age, ethnicity,
and gender, regularly usingthe facilities in the Park and atthe Clubhouse building. These users
include 8 x rugby union. 15 x youth football, 16 x adult footbaLI. 3 x American football. 2 x Frisb8e, 1
x rugby league, Gaelic football, Camogie, and cricket.
In addition to the Park, the facilities at the Clubhouse building provide accommodation for
changing, catering, and hall hire for meetings and functions. Access is excellent to both the Park
and the Clubhouse being located very close to the majortrain interchange at West Ham Station,
and the 8lte has good parking provision. The building also has a Strength Ambassadors gym.
The Charity had three primary objectives this year.
1) To build up and support sporting activity in the Park afterthe disruption to organised sport during
the Covid pandemic. This has been demonstrably achieved.
2) The new building providing permanent storage, physiotherapy accommodation and
administrative off ices has been compLet8d and handed over to user groups.
31 The new trustees were appointed and have est8bLished their respective roles and
respongibiLities within the ELCSA organisation.
Initiatives for the future will focus on improving the sports facilities in the Park to meet demand,
and looking to improve energy use efficiency by investing in low energy LED floodlight fittings for the
grass and 3G pitches.
Looking forward to 2025. the Charities objectives are to continue to work with the local community
and sports clubs to encourage partlGipation in Sport and recreation in the Park. A particular
opportunitywill be to engage with the people who will soon be occupying the 4000 new homes
currently being built adjacent to West Ham Station. An important priority will be to further develop
our partnership with the London Borough of Newham under the umbrella of a continuation of the
current Service Level Agreement (SLA) contract.
To conclude: I would like to thank my fellow Trustees for their continued voluntary commitment
and enthusiasm to the work of ELCSA, for the support given by local residents to the work we do to
ensure the sport facilities in the Park are fully utilised, and for ourworking partnerships wilL aLI
sports club users to ensure the Memorial Park Gontinues to be a thriving local sports and
recreation hub
Joseph Gillin
Chair
East London Community Sports Association

CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl '
members of EAST LONDON COMMUNITY SPORTS ASSOCIATION
On accounts for the year 31 st March 2024
ended '.
Charity no
(If any)
1011654
Set out on pages .
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity ("the Trust") for the year ended 3110312024
Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of
basis of r8port the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
('the Act")
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have
followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under
section 145(5){b) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
come to my attention
'n connection with
the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material
respect..
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
the Act or
the aGGounts do not accord with the accounting records
Independent
examinerfs statemant
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in Gonnection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed:
19 10I1242SI
Name." Paul J Charles
Relevant professional FMAAT
qualification{s) or body
(if any)..
IER
October 2018

Address.. BERKELEY COACH HOUSE
WOODS HILL.BATH
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Section 8
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of con￿rn (see
CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts". directions and guidance
for examiners).
Give here brief detsils
of any items that the
examlner wishes to
disclose.
IER
October 2018

CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Receipts and payments accounts
CC16a
Forthe period
from
01.04.2023
31.03.2024
Section A Receipts and payments
un￿StriCted
funds
to the ngarest
Endowment
funds
to the neare¥t £
Restrtrted funds
Total funds
Last year
to the wrest £
A1 Recei
to the ￿areSt £
to ngaTesl £
Club Hi)use
Other Revenue
Don8tions & Subsidlos
Otlier donalk)ns
E2St London Ru
7,051
3,289
14,000
8,410
7.980
7.051
3.289
14,000
8,410
7,815
2,275
21,300
8.640
7,200
Sub total(Gross income forAR)
A2 Asset and Investment sales,
40,730
40,730
47,230
Sub total
Totalrecolpts
40.730
40,730
47,230
A3Pa
ments
Bank fees
L$
el & Professional
GovernAnc8 c8$8
Ll ht & Heat
Insurance
Dlr8Ct Chadt
Malnt8nanco
BDL Interln7
Don8llons
118
118
252
252
233
143
728
764
726
764
Sub total
25,4B6
25,486
63.990
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, Isaé tablo)
club house s
end
191474
191 474
Sub total
1g1.A74
191.474
Totalpayments
216.960
216.960
63,990
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers b9tW99n funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash fiinds thls yoar ond
176,230
176,230
16,760
191.474
191,474
S.244
15.244
16.700
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Unrostri¢f•d
funds
to nearest £
Restrfcted funds
Endowment
funds
to nearest £
r.21euorieb'
B1 Cash funds
to Marost £
tkposit Account
850
Curront Account
1,541
Totalcash funds
2,391
CCXX R1 accounts Issi

Unrestricted
funds
lo r￿are51 £
67,164
R8strfctad funds
Endowment
funds
to n8arasl £
to rnar9St £
[￿btl)￿ and prepayrrénl
Fund to whl¢h •8$gt
Details
CoBt lopt10￿1)
Currfjnt valuo
loptloml
B3 Investmont ass8t$
Fund to whlch a88•1
Detall
aubhous$ E881 London
Co•t l(ytlornll
Current valup
lonol
B4 Assets ratalned for thè
Charty's own use
709.098
Fund to whl¢h
Ilablllty relat•s
SO.287
Imion due
loptlonall
LJètalls
Local Authorfty
B5 Uabilitios
Icpflonall
HSBC
22,031
Signed by one or twstees on
behalf of all the tnJsle&s
SKJnature
Prinl Name
Date of approval
CCXX R2 accounts ISS}
1510212025