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← The Community Association For West Hampstead

2025-03-31-accounts

Charity No: 1135778 Company No: 6956009

The Community Association for West Hampstead Ltd (CAWH) (A Registered Charity & Company Limited by Guarantee)

Trustee/Directors’ Report & Financial Statements

For the year ended: 31[st] March 2025

CONTENTS

Legal and Administrative Information 1
Trustees’ Report 2- 13
Independent Examiners Report 14
Statement of Financial Activities 15
Balance Sheet 16
Notes to the Accounts 17-24

Trustees/Directors Report for the year ended 31 March 2025

Legal and Administrative Information

For the year ended 31 March 2025

Trustees

Charity number Company number

1135778 06956009

Date of registration

4 May 2010

Registered office and Principal Operational address

17 Dornfell Street London NW6 1QN

Manager

Beatrice Boussard

Independent Examiner

Kathleen Moss ACMA CGMA 48 Lawn Terrace, London, SE3 9LP

Bankers

Co-operative Bank Scottish Widows Cambridge and Counties Bank PO Box 250. PO Box 12757. Charnwood Court Skelmersdale 67 Morrison Street 5B New Walk WN8 6WT Edinburgh, EH3 8YJ Leicester, LE1 6TE

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2.Structure, governance and management

The Trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the period ended 31 March 2025. This is a Directors’ Report required by s417 of the Companies Act 2006. The financial statements comply with current statutory requirements and the requirements of the Articles of Association.

2.1 Organisational structure and Board of Trustees3

The managing body is the Board of Trustees which is elected annually at the Annual General Meeting.

The Trustees oversee the vision and direction of the Association for public benefit. The managing document is the Articles of Association. The Board of Trustees consists of up to twelve members including the Chair, Vice-Chair, Treasurer and Secretary. The Board can make three co-options. At the end of the year, a strong team of 13 Trustees and 1 co-optee was in place with skills including charity management, law, finance, human resources, marketing, governance, computing/website and community development.

The Board of Trustees met every 6 weeks and then bi-monthly during this financial year, (8 meetings in total). A Finance & General Purposes Committee (F&GP) oversaw in closer detail aspects of the organisation including finance and fundraising.

A Funding Strategy Group met in tandem with the Board and the F&GP, and Trustees have been active in helping staff with funding applications, marketing, and setting up and running local fundraising initiatives. This Group was replaced by an Events Committee meeting bimonthly to represent the strengths of new trustees recruited after the AGM in November 2024.

There has been considerable change in both the Trustee body and in the staffing of the Centre during this year. Pauline Cheeseman retired as Trustee and Chair in November 2024 and was replaced by Virginia Berridge, previously Vice Chair. Six new trustees with a range of expertise were appointed and one co-opted to the Board in November.

CAWH’s staff has also changed. Karen Fraser, the Manager, left CAWH in February 2025. She was replaced as Manager by Beatrice Boussard, previously the part time Keeping Well Together organiser. Monika Fowdar, previously the Administrator, became Deputy Manager. Both posts were on a probationary basis for six months until 31 August. The Manager’s role is full-time, and the Deputy Manager’s role is 0.9 FTE per week. Whilst there was a reduction in number of staff from 3-2, the number of hours / FTE did not change. The Children and Young Peoples Coordinator and team of sessional workers continued their work.

The Trustees delegate the effective day to day running of the Association and resources to the Manager. She supervises the staff, sessional workers, self-employed contractors and volunteers to develop and deliver activities and services.

There is a comprehensive range of policies and procedures which ensure the effective running of the Association and that legal and statutory requirements are met. CAWH has a rolling programme to review policies and procedures and these are brought forward to each Board meeting.

During this year, the Board approved revised Disciplinary, Grievance and Data Privacy policies & procedures.

2.2. Recruitment and appointment of trustees

New Trustees were appointed after a wide-ranging process of local advertisement using the CAWH monthly newsletter, which goes to just over a 1000 recipients, local WhatsApp groups and local advertising posters.

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2.3. Induction and training

The new Trustees received an information pack about the Centre and the meaning of being a trustee. They were also invited to an induction evening organised by the new Chair at which the organisation was introduced and questions answered about its operation. Trustees have taken on individual areas of interest e.g. the 101 Club fundraising lottery, policy revision, event organisation, improvement of publicity, and the upgrading of the website. These activities are reported on at CAWH Board meetings.

2.4 Risk Management

The Trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the organisation is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error. Risk is assessed on all aspects from human resources, financial management, health and safety as well as other areas of governance.

A key risk is lack of sufficient finance to run the Association , particularly as CAWH receives no annual grant from the local Council. To minimise this risk, CAWH aims for a mixed economy of funding from trusts and charities, hall hire, charges for classes and activities, donations, sponsorship, local fundraising, and a 101 Club Lottery. Trustees aim to acquire multi-year funding for project and core costs. They set reserves at a minimum of £50,000.

CAWH keeps a close eye on income and expenditure through its Finance and General Purposes Committee (F&GP) which meets bimonthly. Accounts and cash flow are regularly scrutinised and action taken to maximise income. Income is regularly assessed against the budget.

All banking accounts are in the name of the Association and the Association continues to adhere to good financial practice and compliance with associated Charity and Company Law. In the event of the Association closing, any unspent funds shall be returned to the organisations or individuals from whom they were initially received, or donated to another charity with similar purposes as approved in consultation with the Charity Commission.

2.5 Premises

CAWH occupies premises on the first and second floors of 17 Dornfell Street, West Hampstead, known as the West Hampstead Community Centre. The Association has a 20 year lease, granted by Camden Council in June 2017, to occupy and use the Centre, and pays a rent of £5,500 a year. The Council continues to maintain and service the property and a quarterly service charge is paid which includes gas and electricity.

CAWH is restricted in its available physical space. This affects the range and provision of activities which can be undertaken. The upstairs hall has a seated capacity of 40-45 people. It is heavily used by a range of for social events, educational and recreational classes, workshops and parties.

Space is hired from other organisations to run larger events, and more spacious premises are sought. The ground floor of our premises is occupied by a children’s nursery, also leased from Camden Council, whose trustees and staff have kindly allowed CAWH to use its hall for meetings in the evenings and at weekends. During this year, contact has been made with the neighbouring West Hampstead Primary School and we have begun to run events there free of charge. Pupils from the school also attend our children’s workshops. We also run events and classes at the nearby Emmanuel Church and at the O2 Centre on Finchley Road.

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3.Objectives and activities

3.1 Overview

2024-25 saw the continuation of CAWH’s expansion and embedding in the West Hampstead community.

Our key objectives for the year were met, and here is a short overview of the 24/25 year:

3.2. Our objectives

The Association’s Purposes as set out in the Objects contained in the Association’s Articles of Association are to:

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CAWH has a series of objectives that are designed to ensure we meet these purposes and these are reported on below under Section 4 Activities and Achievements.

3.3 Use of volunteers

A vital aspect of the KWT project is encouraging volunteers—particularly older individuals— to share their knowledge and skills for the benefit of others. We have successfully recruited over 30 volunteers, including new Trustees, who bring a diverse range of expertise to support our staff across areas such as finance, marketing, and HR.

Our older volunteers play an active role in delivering and supporting several classes, including ESOL, French Conversation, Hand Sewing, and our Memory Café. Two dedicated volunteers also care for the four planters at Thameslink Station.

Among the various volunteering opportunities we offer, some individuals prefer helping to raise awareness of our Centre and its activities. Their contributions—such as distributing posters to shops, libraries, medical centres, and prominent locations around West Hampstead—have been instrumental in increasing our visibility.

4. Activities and achievements

How our activities deliver public benefit

In setting our objectives and planning our activities, the Board of Trustees gives careful consideration to the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit and in particular to its supplementary public benefit.

This year has seen the delivery for public benefit of activities and achievements against the 10 key objectives in our business plan.

Objective 1. Reduce isolation: promote local inclusion, cohesion and a sense of community for public benefit.

CAWH aims to create a warm, welcoming environment for the whole community with opportunities for friendship by engaging with others, learning new skills, and demonstrating and celebrating achievements. Our key target groups are older people, particularly those isolated or housebound, and children and young people, but CAWH exists for the benefit of the whole community.

Keeping Well Together for Over 60s

Keeping Well Together is our programme focused on meeting the needs of our older population

Following a well-received Well-being Day in February 2024, we held a Skills for Life Open Day in September 2024, inviting visitors to explore courses including carpentry, hand

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sewing, decoupage, art, photography, and ESOL. This relaxed event allowed guests to connect with tutors and discover more about the Centre—without any pressure to enrol. 40 people attended this event

A wide range of activities and services continued and expanded under the Keeping Well Together Programme:

Exercise and Fitness:

Advice, Feeling Safe and General Support

Support for those living with cognitive impairment

Art, Crafting and Woodwork

Additional Activities focused on our older population

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CANDY (Children and Young People)

CANDY is our programme focused on meeting the needs of our younger population. We have a full programme of Activities during term time and also during the holiday period.

Term time Activities:

After School Programme - Our After School Programme remains highly valued. The After School Clubs are designed for children attending West Hampstead Primary School and are advertised via the school office.

Under 5s Playgroup and Coffee Afternoon: A new Under 5s Playgroup and Coffee Afternoon started this year and takes place on Mondays, 2-3:30pm. It is an opportunity for local parents, grandparents and carers to meet and chat while the little ones play.

Holiday Activities: These sessions have seen exceptional popularity throughout 2024/25, with every holiday programme fully booked, often within 48 hours. Our holiday activities are promoted via an email mailing list, school newsletters, and social media, ensuring they reach families across the community. Following every holiday programme, we gather feedback through conversations with families, tutor insights, and emailed surveys. Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, especially for our arts, crafts and clay workshops.

Holiday Programme Highlights

During 24/25 the main challenge for the CANDY Programme has been connecting with families from less privileged backgrounds, despite West Hampstead’s diverse community.

We have dedicated significant time to outreach efforts and tried various approaches to ensure that as many workshop places as possible are taken up by families eligible for Pupil Premium.

Working closely with our local primary school, West Hampstead Primary School, we asked the School Coordinator initially to offer our holiday programme exclusively to families registered as Pupil Premium. This gave those families priority booking for sessions. We then opened the programme bookings to the wider community a few days later.

As a result of this approach, we are now seeing a higher number of families from less privileged backgrounds participating in our programmes.

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Objective 2. Enhance people's access to self-development opportunities and therefore improve people’s employment opportunities.

CAWH benefitted from the help of more than 30 volunteers who generously gave their help with a wide range of services: running classes, helping with marketing and publicity, supporting the Platform One garden project, running social events, which enhance their confidence and skills. We were able to offer work experience to young teenagers during the children’s summer scheme which they enjoyed immensely and said it gave them a sense of achievement.

Objective 3. Improve access to advice, support and advocacy.

People continued to be signposted to a wide range of services depending on their particular need. Services this year have included; One Step for financial management advice, Citizens Advice Bureau, Age UK Camden, and our neighbouring Community Centres and organisations. The main areas where people have needed advice have been finance, help with their property, caring for their aging parents and health related issues. In addition, one of our Trustees is a local Councillor and this has enabled us to raise issues related to Camden council more directly through her intervention.

Objective 4. Provide meeting space and support for voluntary and community groups.

The Community Centre continues to be a much used community resource offering space to, and in partnership with local community organisations including Residents’ Associations, and religious groups. Our regular hall hire to groups and individuals also facilitates cohesion and the breakdown of loneliness and isolation. Groups such as Pilates, Yoga, guitar playing, mother and baby groups all contribute to our core mission.

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Objective 5. Facilitate and support leisure, recreation, education, social welfare and healthy living services and activities for public benefit.

The themes of healthy living, exercise, and promotion of wellbeing underpin all CAWH’s programmes and activities. We tend to divide our regular programme into Classes and Activities as well as Community Events

Classes and Activities: CAWH provides a wide variety of activities for all the community, both directly and by providing a base for independent tutors to run classes. This year, CAWH directly ran 16 low cost/free activities for adults for public benefit, plus our children’s activities A selection of our classes have ranged from:

Community Events

The Community Events programme was initiated by Trustees and is run by Trustees with the help of staff and volunteers. These low-priced inclusive events bring in a small but valuable income to the organisation.It has continued to provide well-attended fun and social opportunities to adults and children across the multi-ethnic community through its monthly programme. Our Events Programme helps to raise the awareness of the Community Centre and CAWH and has included the following events:

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Healthy Living and Social Welfare:

As a result of increased energy costs and the rise in the cost of living, we offered two health promoting food services: A Warm Hub and a Circle of Soup (free). Warm Hub: we opened a Warm Hub in January 2023, offering a warm welcome and a healthy soup and bread lunch in the Community Centre kitchen each week. The numbers attending the Hub are growing and often included those who attend a seated exercise class beforehand.

Circle of Soup: we launched three consecutive free ‘Circle of Soup’ initiatives—each a 5- week evening course that invited participants to select fresh vegetables, herbs, and a range of nutritious pulses and beans to prepare global dishes together. Cooking and sharing meals across four dedicated kitchen stations created a warm, communal space where participants could also learn how to eat well on a limited budget.

Objective 6. Promote and support community led activity and act as a community anchor.

Our regular weekly schedule of classes typically includes some 30-40 different classes. The majority of these are led by instructors who provide their services for the benefit of the local community and are able to do so under the auspices of CAWH and our Community Centre.

We continued to evolve our activities to meet the needs of our local community and this year the Association has supported local volunteers to develop new classes and activities that are offered free or at low cost including:

CAWH offers support to other voluntary groups that regularly use its Centre Resources such as access to tables and equipment continue to be available to local community groups and individuals.

Objective 7. Respond to the desires and needs of local people and seek to provide such services as may be required.

We continue to regularly gather the views of people using the services through questionnaires, one to one feedback, interviews and collation of comments. Feedback forms are distributed after every activity and provide useful information which we act on.

In addition, two extensive consultation initiatives were launched to gather the views of those who receive our newsletter (over 1,000 each month) and those who attend classes in the centre. We have had 140 respondents and will analyse the review the feedback in order to continue to restructure our activities and service provision accordingly.

We also launched an EDI survey (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) to gain an improved understanding of some of the demographics of our centre users.

Going forward we plan to run a series of focus groups to understand what else we can do , as a Community Association to better serve the needs of the local population.

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Objective 8. Establish, manage and continually develop a community centre in furtherance of these objectives.

We continue to make our amenities as safe and available to the community as possible. Our hall and kitchen continue to deliver our charitable activities for the community and generate income through hall hire. New equipment eg urn, cookers and fridge in the kitchen are available to hirers.

There have been a number of improvements in the Community Centre thanks to the persistent efforts of our staff, including repainting the front railings and door in attractive colours. Our external lift has been replaced and water penetration damage repainted and made good.

Card readers help people make payments more easily and the renewed website is becoming an important way of paying for classes, thus reducing staff administrative time.

Because of limited space in the Community Centre, CAWH runs its activities throughout West Hampstead. Larger venues in West Hampstead are hired to run activities such as Zumba.

We were grateful to West Hampstead Primary School for the use of one of their halls for our Barn Dance in October, and are extremely appreciative of an invitation to use their premises for larger events in the future. We look forward to working more closely with them for our mutual benefit.

Sington Nursery on the ground floor of our premises, have also been generous in extending the use of their nursery for meetings when it is not being used, which has taken off some of our pressure for space.

Objective 9. Ensure the Centre becomes more environmentally sustainable and works to reduce the carbon footprint both of its premises, activities and those of the wider community which it serves.

This theme continues to underpin our work as we seek ways to reduce our footprint and impact on the environment: e.g.by purchasing recycled paper goods, actively recycling, using environmentally friendly cleaning products for the Centre and drawing on local providers and suppliers where possible.

Restart parties are held every few months, where customers can bring broken electrical goods to have them repaired by trained volunteers, to avoid unnecessary waste.

In addition to the work we do within the Community Centre to meet Objective 9, a group of volunteers has ably maintained the Sunshine Garden at our local train station (West Hampstead Thameslink). There are four large planters on Platform One. The planters are valued by commuters and staff

Objective 10. Fundraising in furtherance of these activities.

Staff and Trustees have been very active fundraising this year, and thanks to the support of funders and supporters, have been able not only to continue to run ongoing activities which are welcomed by the community, but also initiate new schemes.

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4.2. Publicity and marketing

CAWH aims to reach out to as many people as possible and whilst there is more to do, CAWH continues to improve its publicity and marketing

5. Partnership working and performance review

CAWH values and has benefitted greatly from the contribution of partner organisations. We have strengthened partnerships with other local organisations such as Kilburn Older Voices Exchange, Age UK Camden and its Dementia service, Mill Lane Garden Centre, Emmanuel Church, Sidings Community Centre, Sington Nursery, West Hampstead Primary School, Thameslink, O2 Centre, Right at Home care and Walfinch agency, schools, estate agents, Social prescribers from Solent Road medical centre , Camden Carers centre, local PCSO, West Hampstead Library,, Death Cafe platform, Kew Garden and The London Zoo, British Museum,London Borough of Camden for the Ramblers training,, the statutory sector and local enterprise for public benefit.

6. Financial review

Total income in 2024-25 was £145,956 (2024: £128,374) of which £70,140 (2024: £74,374) was restricted to specific projects. Total expenditure was £152,097 (2024: £124,560), with £67,342 relating to restricted income funds, leaving a net expenditure of £6,141 for the year (2024: net income of £3,814) and funds carried forward of £114,608 (2024: £120,749). As healthy as this looks, much of this surplus, £52,652, relates to restricted income funds carried forward to 2025-2026 for committed expenses and projects particularly for KWT projects.

We still must raise funds to continue our services as we will be reduced to our minimum reserve of £50,000 under the current circumstance by FY 2026. CAWH worked hard to raise funds during the year.

Our income from hall hire was £31,495 an increase by over 27% from our previous year (2024: £24,748).

Funding applications were successful, and we are indebted to all our funders. We raised 2- year funding starting from April 2024 from Garfield Weston which along with the grants from National Lottery and an existing 3-year grant from City Bridge Foundation, secures the KWT project's future until April 2026. Camden Council provided significant grants which enabled us to increase additional working hours for our core staff member and run Wood working and

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Circle of Soup classes. The John Lyons Charity supported our holiday playschemes and awarded us 3-year funding starting April 2024 running until April 2027 for our CANDY children and young people's project. Our own fundraising efforts continued, raising £8,953 between the 101-club lottery and CAWH community events (2024: £8,560).

Our returns on the time deposits and notice account investment with our reserves have yielded us a little over £4,204.

Despite all of the above, without regular core funding CAWH will always struggle to keep afloat and spend too much of its time fundraising instead of doing what we want to do: provide services for the benefit of our community. We have approached Camden Council to discuss greater and sustained funding after being turned down for the 7-year multi-year funding for the charity sector which was disappointing. Nonetheless, we will continue to fundraise for our project work with full steam and energy for the year ahead.

6.1.Reserves policy

CAWH has no regular source of grant income and in view of this the CAWH continues to maintain a reserve of an excess of £50,000 in unrestricted funding to cover up to 6 months running costs. At 31[st] March 2025 CAWH had £51,956 (2024: £60,895) in general reserves.

The Trustees agreed to designate £10,000 in 2023 from the unrestricted income funding to supplement shortfalls in funding for projects should they arise, still held at 31[st] March 2025.

CAWH held a further £52, 652 (2024: £49,854) in restricted income fund reserves.

6.2.Principal funding sources

  1. John Lyons, 2. City Bridge, 3. National Lottery, 4. Garfield Weston, 5. Camden

6.3. Investment policy

The organisation aims to invest monies not immediately required for its own purposes in or upon such investments, securities or property as may be fit. CAWH has invested £30,000 reserves in FY23-24 in a 1-year fixed rate bond at a rate of 5%. The sum matured to £31,508 and this was reinvested in a 6-month fixed rate account at a rate of interest of 4.6%. Further, a reserve of £50,000 was invested in a 95 day Notice Account at a rate of 4.41%. All of CAWH’s investments are currently held with the Cambridge and Counties Bank. Our Treasurer will be looking to invest available monies in safe short-term investments with

7 . Plans for the future

We are currently planning an away day in late 2025 and so will report on strategies and objectives developed there in our next report.

Our new board of Trustees bring marketing capability and we intend to build on this, as well as our new website, to continue to raise the profile of CAWH within the local community. In addition to reaching new residents, we hope to leverage this capability to bring in more income that can be invested in new and enhanced services.

Our Secretary is currently developing a formal register of our risks to ensure that these are managed and risks to the organization are mitigated.

We will continue to develop our Volunteer network and plan to continue to grow and expand this team to help us reach every part of our community

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8. Statement of trustees’ responsibilities

Company and Charity Law require the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Association and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the Association for that period.

In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:

departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements;

The Trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Association and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Association and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The Trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the Association’s website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of the financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Provision of information to independent examiners.

Each of the persons who are Trustees at the time when this Trustees' report is approved has confirmed that:

• so far as that Trustee is aware, there is no relevant information of which the charitable company's independent examiners are unaware, and

• that Trustees have taken all the steps that ought to have been taken as a Trustee in order to be aware of any information needed by the Association's independent examiners in connection with preparing their report and to establish that the Association's independent examiners are aware of that information.

APPROVAL

This report was approved by the Board of Trustees on ……………….. and signed on its behalf by:

Virginia Berridge

Chair

Pranay Hariharan

Treasurer

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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT

To the Trustees of The Community Association for West Hampstead Ltd

I report on the accounts of The Community Association for West Hampstead Ltd for the year ended 31st March 2025 which are set out on pages 15 - 24.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity trustees of the company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law) you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (‘the 2006 Act’).

Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of your company’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the 2011 Act’). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

  1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or

  2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or

  3. the accounts do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view’ which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination; or

  4. the accounts have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102).

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Date

Kathleen Moss ACMA, CGMA Kathleen Moss Ltd 48 Lawn Terrace London SE3 9LP

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THE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FOR WEST HAMPSTEAD LTD.

Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) For the year ended 31 March 2025

Total Total
Unrestricted Restricted Funds Unrestricted Restricted Funds
Funds Funds 2025 Funds Funds 2024
£ £ £ £ £ £
Income from: Notes
Donations and legacies 2 £ 1,604 £ 140 £ 1,744 1,026 1,167 2,193
Charitable activities 3 £ 70,008 £ 70,000 £ 140,008
 52,974 73,207 126,181
Interest received 4 £ 4,204 - £ 4,204 - - -
Other
______ ______ ______ __ __ __
Total income £ 75,816 £ 70,140 £ 145,956
 54,000 74,374 128,374
______ ______ ______ __ __ __
Expenditure on: 5
Raising funds £ 10,501 £ 10,501 8,643 8,643
Charitable activities £ 74,254 £ 67,342 £ 141,596
 64,989 50,928 115,917
Other expenditure - -
______ ______ ______ __ __ __
Total expenditure £ 84,755 £ 67,342 £ 152,097
 73,632 50,928 124,560
______ ______ ______ __ __ __
Net income/(expenditure) for th 6 (£ 8,939) £ 2,798 (£ 6,141) (19,632) 23,446 3,814
Transfer between funds 12 - - - - 2,191 2,191 -
______ ______ ______ ______ ______ ______
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward £ 70,895 £ 49,854 £ 120,749
 92,718 24,217 116,935
______ ______ ______ __ __ __
Total funds carried forward £ 61,956 £ 52,652 £ 114,608
 £ 70,895 £ 49,854 £ 120,749
______ ______ ______ __ __ __

The above is derived from continuing activities . There were no other recognised gains or losses, other than those stated above. Movements in funds are disclosed in Note 12 to the financial statements.

The notes on the following pages form part of these financial accounts.

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THE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FOR WEST HAMPSTEAD LTD.

Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2025

Note
Fixed assets
Tangible Assets
8
Current assets
Debtors
9
Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors:Amount falling
due within one year
10
Net current assets
Total assets less current liabilities
Net assets
11
The funds of the charity:
11
Restricted Funds
12
Unrestricted Funds
12
Designated funds
General funds
Total charity funds		 2025
£
994
3,550
114,797
118,347
4,733
113,614
114,608
114,608
52,652
10,000
51,956
114,608		 2024
£
1,570
2,027
125,696
127,723
8,544
119,179
120,749
120,749
49,854
10,000
60,895
120,749

The charity is entitled to the exemption from the audit requirement contained in section 477 of the Companies Act 2006, for the year ended 31 March 2025. No member of the charity has deposited a notice, pursuant to section 476, requiring an audit of these accounts.

The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for ensuring that the charity keeps accounting records which comply with sections 386 and 387 of the Act and for preparing accounts which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company as at the end of the financial year and of its incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and expenditure, for the financial year in accordance with the requirements of sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to accounts so far as applicable to the charitable company.

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The accounts were approved by the Trustees on______

and signed on their behalf by:

…………………………………………..

Pranay Hariharan, Treasurer

Director and Trustee

Charity Registration No. 1135778 Company Registration No. 06956009

The notes on the following pages form part of these financial accounts.

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THE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FOR WEST HAMPSTEAD LTD.

Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025

1 Accounting Policies

Statutory information

The Community Association for West Hampstead is a charitable company limited by guarantee and is registered in England and Wales. The registered office address, and principal place of business, is West Hampstead Community Centre, 17 Dornfell St, London, NW6 1QN. The functional currency of the charitable company is sterling.

Basis of preparation of financial statements

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102), (Charities SORP FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.

The financial statements have been prepared to give a 'true and fair' view and have departed from the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 only to the extent required to provide a 'true and fair view'.

Public benefit entity

The charitable company meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102.

Going Concern

The trustees consider that there are no material uncertainties about the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern.

The charitable company can operate based on confirmed funding with sufficient unrestricted reserves at 31st March 2025 of £61,956 of which £10,000 is Designated by the Trustees for continuation of projects.

The trustees do not consider that there are any sources of estimation uncertainty at the reporting date that have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities within the next reporting period.

Income

Income is recognised when the charitable company has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the income have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and that the amount can be measured reliably.

Income from government and other grants, whether ‘capital’ grants or ‘revenue’ grants, is recognised when the charitable company has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the grants have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably and is not deferred.

For legacies, entitlement is taken as the earlier of the date on which either: the charitable company is aware that probate has been granted, the estate has been finalised and notification has been made by the executor(s) to the charitable company that a distribution will be made, or when a distribution is received from the estate. Receipt of a legacy, in whole or in part, is only considered probable when the amount can be measured reliably and the charitable company has been notified of the executor’s intention to make a distribution. Where legacies have been notified to the charitable company, or the charitable company is aware of the granting of probate, and the criteria for income recognition have not been met, then the legacy is a treated as a contingent asset and disclosed if material.

Income received in advance of the provision of a specified service is deferred until the criteria for income recognition are met.

Gifts/intangible income

Donated professional services and donated facilities are recognised as income when the charitable company has control over the item or received the service, any conditions associated with the donation have been met, the receipt of economic benefit from the use by the charitable company of the item is probable and that economic benefit can be measured reliably. In accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102), volunteer time is not recognised so refer to the trustees’ annual report for more information about their contribution.

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Notes to the financial statements

for the year ended 31 March 2025 - continued

On receipt, donated gifts, professional services and donated facilities are recognised on the basis of the value of the gift to the charitable company which is the amount the charitable company would have been willing to pay to obtain services or facilities of equivalent economic benefit on the open market; a corresponding amount is then recognised in expenditure in the period of receipt.

Fund Accounting

Restricted funds are to be used for specific purposes as laid down by the donor. Expenditure which meets these criteria is charged to the fund.

Unrestricted funds are donations and other incoming resources received or generated for the charitable purposes. Designated funds are unrestricted funds earmarked by the trustees for particular purposes.

Expenditure and irrecoverable VAT

Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably.

Costs of raising funds relate to the costs incurred by the charitable company in inducing third parties to make voluntary contributions to it, as well as the cost of any activities with a fundraising purpose.

Expenditure on charitable activities includes the costs of delivering services and other activities undertaken to further the purposes of the charitable company and their associated support costs.

Other expenditure represents those items not falling into any other heading

Irrecoverable VAT is charged as a cost against the activity for which the expenditure was incurred.

Fixed Assets

Tangible fixed assets are stated at cost less depreciation. All tangible assets with a purchase price of greater than £250 are capitalised.

Depreciation

Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost, less residual value, over their expected useful life as follows: Fixtures & fittings 33% straight line Office equipment 33% straight line

Operating lease agreements

Rental charges are charged on a straight line basis over the term of the lease.

Debtors

Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due.

Cash at bank and in hand

Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account. Cash balances exclude any funds held on behalf of service users.

Creditors and provisions

Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charitable company has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.

The charitable company only has financial assets and financial liabilities of a kind that qualify as basic financial instruments. Basic financial instruments are initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measured at their settlement value with the exception of bank loans which are subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Pensions

The charitable company recognises its liabilities under auto enrolment. The staging date was Oct 2016 and the charitable company has enroled in the government backed NEST pension scheme.

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Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025 - continued

Unrestricted Restricted Total
2025
£ £ £
2 Donations and legacies
Donations 1,604 140 1,744
______ _ _
Donations and legacies - prior year comparative 2024
£ £ £
Donations 1,026 1,167 2,193
__ ___ ___
£1,026 1,167 £2,193
______ _ _
3 Income from charitable activities 2025
Services to benefit inhabitants £ £ £
Grant income
John Lyons Charity - 30,000 30,000
London Borough of Camden - 22,000 22,000
City Bridge Trust - 10,000 10,000
Garfield Weston Foundation - 7,500 7,500
Co-Op Community Fund - 500 500
______ ______ _
£0 £70,000 £70,000
______ _ _
Activites for generating funds
Hall hire 31,453 - 31,453
Income from fundraising 8,953 - 8,953
Charges for activities 29,602 - 29,602
______ _ _
£70,008 - £70,008
______ _ _
Total income from charitable activities £70,008 £70,000 £140,008
______ _ _
3 Income from charitable activities - prior year comparative 2024
Services to benefit inhabitants £ £ £
Grant income
Hampstead Wells and Campden Trust - 10,000 10,000
John Lyons Charity - 5,000 5,000
London Borough of Camden Organisational
Development Fund		 1,500 - 1,500
London Borough of Camden CIL (Community
Infrastructure Levy)		 - 29,080 29,080
City Bridge Trust 600 - 600
The National Lottery Community Fund - 20,000 20,000
NISA Make a Difference - 1,000 1,000
Garfield Weston Foundation - 7,500 7,500
Camden Eco Points 500 - 500
Magic Little Grant from Local Giving - 500 500
__ __ ___
£2,600 £73,080 £75,680
__ ___ ___
Activites for generating funds
Hall hire 24,748 - 24,748
Income from fundraising 8,560 - 8,560
Charges for activities 17,066 127 17,193
__ ___ ___
£50,374 127 £50,501
__ ___ ___
Total income from charitable activities £52,974 £73,207 £126,181
__ ___ ___
2025
4 Investment income £ £ £
Bank Interest 4,204 - 4,204
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5 Analysis of expenditure

Expenditure represents the following direct and apportioned costs

Costs of Charitable Govern- 2025
generating activities ance Total
voluntary income costs
£ £ £ £
Project/Activity costs - 10,875 - 10,875
Staff costs 3,944 70,993 3,944 78,881
Freelance activity staff - 35,219 - 35,219
Other staff costs - 870 - 870
Premises costs - 2,171 - 2,171
Rent /rates 690 5,865 345 6,900
Insurance - 1,001 - 1,001
Office costs 741 6,301 371 7,413
Independent Exam - - 1,940 1,940
Support costs 32 581 32 646
Fundraising 5,093 - - 5,093
Volunteer expenses - 148 - 148
Governance - - 364 364
Depreciation - 576 - 576
_ _ _ _
10,501 134,600 6,996 152,097
_ _ _ _
Of the total expenditure: Unrestricted Restricted Total
2025 84,755 67,342 152,097
2024 73,632 50,928 124,560

Analysis of expenditure - prior year comparative

Expenditure represents the following direct and apportioned costs

Expenditure represents the following direct and apportioned costs 2024
Total
£ £ £ £
Project/Activity costs - 4,409 - 4,409
Staff costs 2,590 61,284 3,362 67,236
Freelance activity staff - 27,708 - 27,708
Other staff costs - 518 - 518
Premises costs - 3,295 - 3,295
Rent /rates 560 4,761 280 5,601
Insurance - 1,171 - 1,171
Office costs 662 5,624 331 6,616
Independent Exam - - 1,235 1,235
Support costs 13 242 13 269
Fundraising 4,818 - - 4,818
Governance - - 533 533
Trustee training/expenses - - 472 472
Depreciation - 679 - 679
___ ___ ___ ___
8,643 109,691 6,226 124,560
___ ___ ___ ___

6 Net income for the year

The net income for the year is stated after charging:

Depreciation of tangible fixed assets owned by the Charity Independent Examination of year ending 31st March 2025

2025 2024
£ £
576 679
1,940 1,235
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Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025 - continued

7 Staff costs

Staff costs during the year were: 2025 2024
£ £
Salaries and wages 76,503 65,542
Social Security costs 421 -
Pension costs 1,957 1,694
______ ______
£78,881 £67,236
______ ______

The average number of employees during the year was as follows, all staff are part time:

2025 2024
No. No.
Charitable activities 3.7 3.0
Support activities 1.0 1.0
______ ______
4.7 4.0

No employee received remuneration amounting to more than £60,000 in 2025 (2024 - nil). No remuneration was paid to trustees in the year (2024 - £ nil). No expenses were reimbursed to trustees in the year (2024- £nil).

The key management personnel of the charitable company included the Trustees and the Manager. The total employee benefits including employer's national insurance and pension contributions paid to key management personnel were £31,112 (2024 £28,420)

8 Tangible fixed assets

Tangible fixed assets
Fixtures & Fittings Office Equipment Total
£ £ £
Cost 6,409 6,776 13,185
Additions at cost - - -
_____ _____ _____
At 31 March 2025 6,409 6,776 13,185
_____ _____ _____
Depreciation:
Accumulated Depreciation
at 1 April 2024 6,409 5,206 11,615
Charge for year - 576 576
_____ _____ _____
At 31 March 2025 6,409 5,782 12,191
_____ _____ _____
Written Down Values:
At 31 March 2025 - 994 994
_____ _____ _____
At 31 March 2024 - 1,570 1,570
_____ _____ _____

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Notes to the financial statements

for the year ended 31 March 2025 - continued

9 Debtors 2025 2024
Due within one year: £ £
Prepayments 737 1,009
Accrued income - -
Other debtors 2,813 1,018
_____ _____
£3,550 £2,027
_____ _____
10 Creditors 2024 2024
Amounts falling due within one year: £ £
Accruals 2,968 4,660
Deferred/prepaid income - 1,987
Social security and other taxes 1,745 1,877
Deposit for keys held 20 20
_ _
£4,733 £8,544
_ _
11 Analysis of net assets between funds Unrestricted Restricted Total
Funds Funds Funds
£ £ £
Fund Balances at 31 March 2025 are represented by:
Tangible Fixed Assets 994 - 994
Current Assets 65,695 52,652 118,347
Creditors: Amounts falling due
within one year (4,733) - (4,733)
______ ______ ______
Total net assets £61,956 £52,652 £114,608
______ ______ ______
Analysis of net assets between funds -prior year comparative
Unrestricted Restricted Total
Funds Funds Funds
£ £ £
Fund Balances at 31 March 2024 are represented by:
Tangible Fixed Assets 1,570 - 1,570
Current Assets 75,882 51,841 127,723
Creditors: Amounts falling due
within one year (6,557) (1,987) (8,544)
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Total net assets £70,895 £49,854 £120,749

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Notes to the financial statements

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12 Funds
Fund movements were as follows: At Incoming Outgoing At
01 April 2024 31 March 2025
£ £ £ £
Restricted Funds
Children's projects 18,722 30,140 (23,074) 25,788
Keeping Well Together for Over 60s 27,500 20,000 (34,674) 12,826
Warm Hub 3,280 - (1,936) 1,344
Gardening Platform 1 352 - (171) 181
Circle of Soup - 10,000 (7,487) 2,513
Resiliance Fund - 10,000 - 10,000
______ ______ ______ ______
Total Restricted Funds 49,854 70,140 (67,342) 52,652
______ ______ ______ ______
Unrestricted funds:
General funds 60,895 75,816 (84,755) 51,956
Designated funds 10,000 - - 10,000
______ ______ ______ ______
Total funds £120,749 £145,956 (£152,097) £114,608
______ ______ ______ ______

Funds - description

Children's projects

Children's Projects - provision of a range of activities at the community centre, after school clubs at West Hampstead Primary School and holiday workshops. All activities take place in the John Lyon's Charity area of benefit.

Keeping Well Together for Over 60s

Regular and varied programme of wellbeing activities for the over 60s

Warm Hub

The Warm Hub offered a nutritious meal four days a week during colder weather to local residents (subsequently one day a week), and a warm welcome in a pleasant environment.

Gardening project

Funding to maintain Platform One Garden planters at West Hampstead Thameslink station, and a container garden at West Hampstead Community Centre.

Circle of Soup

The Circle of Soup provides cooking workshops for people and mental health issues, to people on a budget. Uniquely the only equipment needed is a Multi-Use Cooking Pot. Introducing batch cooking keeps food and cooking costs to a minimum.

Resiliance Fund

Funding to completely overhaul CAWH's web presence, to update and streamline our database and fund two members of staff to improve our funding capabilities.

Transfers between funds

Transfer in 2024 from General Funds to support the deficit in the year on the KWT project.

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Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025 - continued

Funds- prior year comparative
Fund movements were as follows: At Incoming Outgoing Transfers At
01 April 2023 between funds 31 March 2024
£ £ £ £ £
Restricted Funds
Children's projects 3,777 35,374 (20,429) - 18,722
Keeping Well Together for Over 60s 14,600 38,500 (27,791) 2,191 27,500
Warm Hub 5,840 - (2,560) - 3,280
Gardening Platform 1 - 500 (148) - 352
__ __ __ __ __
Total Restricted Funds 24,217 74,374 (50,928) 2,191 49,854
__ __ __ __ __
Unrestricted funds:
General funds 82,718 54,000 (73,632) (£2,191) 60,895
Designated funds 10,000 - - - 10,000
__ __ __ __ __
Total funds £116,935 £128,374 (£124,560) - £120,749
__ __ __ __ __

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Taxation

The charity is exempt from tax on income and gains falling within Chapter 3 of Part 11 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010 or Section 256 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 to the extent that these are applied to its charitable objects. No tax charges have arisen in the charity.

14 Related parties

Several trustees and related parties are members of the CAWH 101 Club, a fundraising lottery, aggregate donations including to the lottery amount to £430 (2024: £660), all members are equally able to win from the lottery. There are no other donations from related parties which are outside the normal course of business and no restricted donations from related parties.

15 Capital commitments

At 31 March 25 the charitable company had no capital commitments (2024: nil)

16 Other commitments

At 31 March 25 the charitable company had no annual commitments under non-cancellable operating leases for office equipment.

The charitable company has renegotiated the renewal of the lease on the building with London Borough of Camden. The transitional funding arrangement is no longer in operation.

Lease expiring:

2025 2024
Within 1 year
2 to 5 years 5,500 5,500
More than 5 years 22,000 22,000
38,500 44,000
17 Contingent assets or liabilities
Nil

18 Legal status of the charity

The charity is a company limited by guarantee and has no share capital. The liability of each member in the event of winding up is limited to £1.

The charitable company was under the control of the Trustees during the period under review. There is no single ultimate controlling party.

19 Ultimate controlling party

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