
## **East London Waterworks Park** 

**Company number: 13154915 Charity number: 1199414** 

**Report and financial statements for the 12 months ended** 

**31 March 2025** 




## **Contents** 

|Reference and administrative details<br>3|Reference and administrative details<br>3|
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|Structure, governance and management<br>4||
|Objects and activities<br>6||
|Achievements and performance<br>8||
|Financial review<br>11||
|Statement of responsibility of the directors|16|
|Independent Examiner’s Report to the directors of East London Waterworks Park||
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|Statement of fnancial activities (incorporating an Income and Expenditure Account)||
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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitable company (Company number: 13154915). It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number: 1199414). The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow, London, E17 5HY. 




## **Reference and administrative details** 

|**Directors:**<br>Abigail Woodman<br>Chair (appointed 25/01/21)|**Directors:**<br>Abigail Woodman<br>Chair (appointed 25/01/21)|**Directors:**<br>Abigail Woodman<br>Chair (appointed 25/01/21)|
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|Peter Mudge<br>Director (appointed 25/01/21)|||
|Nathan Miller<br>Director (appointed 28/11/21)|||
|Hannah Grifths<br>Director (appointed 04/01/25)|||
|**Company Secretary:**|Abigail Woodman||
|**Company number:**|13154915||
|**Charity number:**|1199414||
|**Registered ofce:**|45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow, London, E17 5HY||
|**Independent Examiner:**|Eilish Kavanagh||
|**Bankers**|The Co-operative Bank plc||
||P.O. Box 101||
||1 Balloon Street||
||Manchester, M60 4EP||
||The Charity Bank Ltd||
||Fosse House||
||182 High Street||
||Tonbridge, TN9 1BE||



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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitable company (Company number: 13154915). It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number: 1199414). The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow, London, E17 5HY. 




The directors present their report and financial statements for the twelve months ended 31 March 2025. 

The directors confirm that the financial statements comply with current statutory requirements, the memorandum and articles of association and the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities (SORP) applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with FRS 102. 

## **Structure, governance and management** 

East London Waterworks Park was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee on 25 January 2021. It became a charitable company on 6 December 2021, and was registered as a charity by the Charity Commission for England and Wales on 22 June 2022. It is governed by a Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association. 

While East London Waterworks Park originated as a community group and wants to retain the camaraderie associated with a community project, we are cognisant that East London Waterworks Park must be a professional organisation, with robust policies and procedures, and an experienced management team. We have, therefore, worked hard to develop an organisational structure that blends a de-centralised sociocratic model of decision-making, enabling a volunteer-run organisation to function effectively, with a more traditional approach to management and decision-making that ensures accountability. 

East London Waterworks Park is a sociocratic organisation and decisions are made according to sociocratic principles of governance. Work is carried out by groups called ‘circles’. Each circle is responsible for its own workstream and reports back to the parent circle, the hub. Decisions are made by consent not consensus, and there is consent when no one has a valid objection. This enables the organisation to work through issues collaboratively, but also ensures that decisions _are_ made and can be made quickly. Everyone involved belongs to at least one circle. The hub meets every two weeks and the circles meet every two weeks or every four weeks depending on their workload. 

To ensure the organisation is owned and managed by the community, a clear pathway to membership has been established, centring on active involvement in the day-to-day activities of the project. Anyone can attend a meeting to find out about our work; they are a 

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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitable company (Company number: 13154915). It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number: 1199414). The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow, London, E17 5HY. 




guest. If they get involved, they become a friend. And friends who demonstrate their ongoing commitment to the project can apply to become members (the equivalent of shareholders in a charitable company). 


The governance circle is East London Waterworks Park’s management team. It sets the organisation’s strategic direction, manages all contractual relationships, and ensures the charity meets its legal and financial obligations. It also develops, or supports the development of, the policies and procedures that ensure East London Waterworks Park is well-organised. The work of the governance circle, like the work of the other circles, is overseen by the hub so that everyone involved in the project has an opportunity to understand and contribute to its work. This gives the management team a depth and breadth of experience to draw on, and ensures organisation-wide buy-in for all major decisions. 

East London Waterworks Park’s four directors (otherwise referred to as ‘trustees’) belong to the governance circle and attend most hub meetings. They also attend regular Finance sub-committee and Executive sub-committee meetings after governance circle meetings, 

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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitable company (Company number: 13154915). It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number: 1199414). The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow, London, E17 5HY. 




and meet four times a year at board meetings, to formally discuss and approve decisions according to the charitable company’s Articles of Association. The directors are appointed from the membership and elected at the Annual General Meeting. 

East London Waterworks Park has no related parties or close relationships with other charities. 

## **Objects and activities** 

The current object of East London Waterworks Park is: 

to promote the conservation, preservation and improvement of the physical and natural environment for the public benefit by purchasing land, opening it up to public access and returning it to nature, and by promoting biodiversity and prudent use of natural resources. 

East London Waterworks Park is a community-led charity that wants to buy land in East London and transform it into a new biodiverse park with wild swimming ponds and community spaces that are accessible to all for free. We believe the project is developing a model that will enable urban communities around the country to work with regenerative design principles and systems thinking to secure ecological gains, community cohesion, stability and prosperity. 

The directors have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the Charity Commission in exercising their powers and duties. They have ensured East London Waterworks Park’s programme of activities is always in line with the company’s object. 

The site of the future East London Waterworks Park is currently owned by the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and managed by LocatED, the Department for Education’s arms-length property company. Following the announcement in January 2024 that the Department for Education had identified an educational use for the site and that the London Innovation and Improvement Alliance (LIIA) planned to build a secure children’s home on the site, East London Waterworks Park continued to focus on working to buy the land, open it up to public access and return it to nature. The organisation did this by developing a campaign to oppose the planned development of the 

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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitable company (Company number: 13154915). It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number: 1199414). The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow, London, E17 5HY. 




site, which is Metropolitan Open Land and should be protected from development except in very special circumstances. 

We were working under the impression that the planning application for the secure children’s home would be submitted to Waltham Forest Council in summer 2024. However, we were notified in late August 2024 that it was being delayed. We assume this is because the new Labour government put all capital expenditure on hold after it won the general election on 4 July 2024. We have yet to be informed that the planning process has restarted. In response, East London Waterworks Park undertook a review of its strategic aims in the third quarter of the year. 

Without a definitive decision on the future of the site, our first strategic aim continues to be ‘buy the land’. We have, therefore, continued to lobby local, regional and national government to support the project, and to work with planning consultants and legal professionals to ensure we are ready to respond to the planning application if and when it is submitted. 

Our second strategic aim is ‘build an inclusive community that supports our efforts to buy the land’. We have, therefore, continued to co-design the park through extensive listening and collaborative design workshops, exploring how we will return the site to nature and promote biodiversity and prudent use of natural resources, and how we will ensure the park is fully accessible and welcoming to the whole community. 

Our third strategic aim is ‘build ourselves into a legitimate, powerful organisation that local, regional and national government wants to work with’. While we were always aware that support from national government was essential to the realisation of our vision, we commissioned research that demonstrated that national and regional government will not support the project if local government does not. And, while East London Waterworks Park has in-principle support from Waltham Forest Council, local government is committed to building the secure children’s home on the site. As a result, while we await the outcome of the planning process, we must broaden the scope of our work beyond the confines of the site. We are, therefore, developing a public programme that will encourage the 

conservation, preservation and improvement of the physical and natural environment for the public benefit, and promote biodiversity and prudent use of natural resources, and we hope to work with local government to realise this programme. 

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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitable company (Company number: 13154915). It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number: 1199414). The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow, London, E17 5HY. 




On 19 March 2025, East London Waterworks Park applied to the Charity Commission to extend its charitable object to better reflect this approach, a process that will take a minimum of 12 weeks. We would like to change the charitable object to: 

The objective of the charity is to promote the conservation, 

preservation and improvement of the physical and natural environment for the public benefit by: 1) purchasing land, opening it up to public access and returning it to nature; 2) promoting biodiversity and prudent use of natural resources; 3) empowering and educating people. 

East London Waterworks Park is a volunteer-run organisation, with no paid members of staff. Volunteers are essential to all we do and we couldn’t operate without them. 

## **Achievements and performance** 

## **Building an inclusive community** 

East London Waterworks Park’s inclusivity listening project continued throughout the year. It is designed to ensure that everybody feels welcome in and around the project and that the park is designed to welcome everybody. Our volunteers have now carried out in-depth interviews with 113 participants about nature, outdoor spaces and our plans for the park as part of phase three of the listening project, and the inclusivity circle is currently analysing the data. We are planning to launch the phase three report in late 2025 and we believe it will be of interest to place-making and built-environment professionals across the country. The inclusivity circle and the design circle are also working closely together to integrate the feedback into the design proposals for the park, and more work on this will form phase four of the listening project. 

Our annual volunteer-monitoring survey, which was conducted in October 2024, confirms that our efforts to ensure our volunteers reflect the diverse boroughs in which we primarily work is bearing fruit: 40 per cent of our volunteers are from a global majority background, compared to 28 per cent in 2023. 

Between June and September 2024, we published the first iterations of four more design proposals for East London Waterworks Park: the swimming ponds proposal, the circular 

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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitable company (Company number: 13154915). It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number: 1199414). The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow, London, E17 5HY. 




economy proposal, the buildings proposal and the ethnobotany proposal. These join the dry habitats proposal, the wetlands habitats proposal and the forest school proposal, to flesh out the vision encapsulated in Version 5 of our site plan, which was published in May 2024. The design circle has also run co-design workshops on the proposed plans for the swimming ponds, the circular economy and the creative community spaces, and the feedback received will be incorporated into the second iteration of the proposals. In fitting recognition of the hard work of the design circle, East London Waterworks Park won the People’s Choice Award in the Reimagine London competition run by New London Architecture in September 2024 and received £2,000 in prize money. 


Learning continues to sit at the heart of East London Waterworks Park: we are a learner-led organisation, developing our vision for our park through an iterative co-design approach, and we work with educational organisations around the world to create learning projects to provide students with meaningful learning experiences. Here are a selection of learning projects that ran between April 2024 and March 2025: 

- In April 2024 we supported Masters students studying Ecology and Data Science at University College London to develop a monitoring strategy to inform the park’s habitat design. 

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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitable company (Company number: 13154915). It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number: 1199414). The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow, London, E17 5HY. 




- From November 2024 to January 2025, we were a live case study for students exploring the concept of the ‘caring city’ as part of their Masters in Urban Development Planning with University College London. 

- In January 2025, we were a live case study for Masters in Architecture students from the University of Sheffield, who developed inclusive design proposals in response to feedback received as part of the listening project. 

## **Developing a public programme** 

In the final quarter of the year, East London Waterworks Park began to develop an outward-facing public programme to help the organisation build its profile. The programme will have three connected strands: 

1. sharing our approach to community organising to transform unloved land into biodiverse community gardens and disused or underused buildings into flourishing community spaces 

2. sharing what we are learning about community organising for the environment through sociocracy with other community groups, and sharing what we are learning about co-designing a large-scale community project with academic and professional communities 

3. facilitating conversations between communities, developers and other landowners, and public bodies to explore ways to resolve, in partnership, the tensions that exist between human needs and what nature needs to thrive. 

## **Strengthening our governance structure** 

East London Waterworks Park continues to work to expand its trustee board, and we were delighted to appoint Hannah Griffiths to the board in January 2025. Hannah is an environmental and social justice campaigner with over 20 years’ experience in campaigning, strategy and policy. She loves nature and wild swimming, and has lived in east London for 25 years. 

## **Reporting performance** 

East London Waterworks Park is not yet operational, so all efforts are targeted towards creating an effective and resilient organisation that will eventually be able to negotiate with the landowner, raise the money to develop the site and open it up to the public. With this in 

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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitable company (Company number: 13154915). It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number: 1199414). The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow, London, E17 5HY. 




mind, our primary outcomes and impacts are centred on learning: learning as an organisation and learning as individuals. 

- We are learning how to develop an environment-first community-led approach to land ownership that sees nature and people thriving together. 

- We are learning how to work together effectively, how to make decisions efficiently and how to manage conflict actively and positively. 

- We are learning about community needs, particularly the needs of groups that are historically underrepresented and strategically ignored in environmental projects, building a picture of what ‘inclusive’ looks like and developing processes that will enable this learning to guide the project into the future. 

- We are sharing our professional skills with each other, learning how to develop our project management skills, our communication skills, our fundraising skills, our research skills, our design skills, and so much more. 

- And we are learning how to put nature first when we make decisions. 

Volunteers have already noticed how their involvement with East London Waterworks Park has helped them develop, with a growing number using the experience they have gained while volunteering to help them secure first jobs and new careers. 

## **Financial review** 

This financial year, like last year, we primarily focused on community engagement and trying to engage with decision makers. 

During the twelve months to 31 March 2025, funding totalling £25,359, came from six sources: 

1. £18,454 from interest 

2. £3,387 from donations and Gift Aid associated with donations 

3. £1,430 from gifts in kind (financial services provided by S. Welsh and the Independent Reviewer) 

4. £1,089 from the sale of donated goods (£1,049 from the sale of jeans donated by Blackhorse Lane Ateliers and £40 from the sale of images at the photo competition exhibition held last year). 

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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitable company (Company number: 13154915). It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number: 1199414). The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow, London, E17 5HY. 




5. £79 royalties from the sale of t-shirts via teemill.com. 

6. £920 from charitable activities (£350 from JustSpace for working with students at University College London, £420 from the University of Sheffield for working with students, and £150 for talks), 

During the same period, expenditure, totalling £13,591, focused on three main areas: 

1. £3,891 on public engagement and representation (including £666 on the listening project and co-design workshops and £2,925.49 on the campaign to oppose the planning application) 

2. £3,600 on lobbying support 

3. £5,506 on general administration costs (including £1,939 on legal support and £256 on a back-up drive). 

At year end, the Charity Bank savings account – where the money donated to buy the site is held as designated funds – held £583,782.10. 

The remaining funds, totalling £34,195.29, have been carried forward. 

All funds are unrestricted. 

East London Waterworks Park has no employees. 

## **Reserves policy** 

Currently, East London Waterworks Park has minimal administrative costs, but maintains reserves necessary to meet committed project costs for the next few years. As at 31 March 2025, all reserves were unrestricted and stood at £619,538 (2024: £607,771) and will be used to fund future activity costs. 

## **Going concern** 

The directors believe there to be no uncertainty about East London Waterworks Park’s ability to continue as a going concern. 

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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitable company (Company number: 13154915). It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number: 1199414). The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow, London, E17 5HY. 




## **Principal risks and uncertainties** 

|**Risk**|**Likelihood**<br>(1–5,<br>with 5 being<br>highest)|**Severity**<br>(1–5,<br>with 5<br>being<br>highest)|**Mitigation**|
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|1. We fail to<br>convince local,<br>regional and<br>national<br>government that<br>we are an<br>organisation that<br>can be trusted<br>with such an<br>ambitious project|4|5|We are developing a public programme to<br>help East London Waterworks Park build<br>its profle and reputation locally,<br>regionally and nationally, and seeking to<br>develop similar,  smaller projects to build<br>trust in East London Waterworks Park as<br>an organisation that can deliver on its<br>commitments.|
|2. We cannot buy<br>the land.|5|5|We are working hard to oppose the<br>planning application which, if approved,<br>will signal the end of the East London<br>Waterworks Park dream. However, if it<br>proves impossible to buy the site,<br>donations already received will be used to<br>support relevant, local projects in<br>accordance with the charity’s object.|
|3. We fail to raise<br>the capital sum<br>required to buy<br>the site.|3|5|We are working hard to ensure we are<br>able to raise the capital sum required to<br>buy the site. If, however, we fail to<br>purchase the land as planned, donations<br>already received will be used to support|



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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitable company (Company number: 13154915). It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number: 1199414). The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow, London, E17 5HY. 




||||relevant, local projects in accordance with<br>the charity’s object.|
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|4. We fail to raise<br>the capital<br>required to<br>transform the site<br>and deliver our<br>current vision.|4|4|Once we have purchased the land, we will<br>be able to deliver on our fundamental<br>promise to create a new open space for<br>the community. While aspects of the<br>project may then take longer than<br>planned, this is a fexible and long-term<br>project that can be delivered in stages<br>appropriate to the funding received.|
|5. We are unable<br>to secure<br>sufcient income<br>to operate.|3|5|The site will be designed to minimise<br>on-going costs, so the core ofering of a<br>new open space will be available even if<br>we are only able to deliver other aspects<br>of the project intermittently.|
|6. We are unable<br>to reconcile our<br>environment-frst<br>approach with<br>community<br>expectations and<br>what is required<br>to run a viable<br>business.|3|4|We acknowledge that we will need to<br>manage competing priorities. However,<br>we are committed to working through<br>such clashes to demonstrate that they are<br>possible to reconcile. In fact,<br>demonstrating that a thriving business<br>and community open space can also be<br>good for nature is one of our founding<br>principles.|



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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitable company (Company number: 13154915). It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number: 1199414). The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow, London, E17 5HY. 




## **Plan for the future** 

Our focus for the forthcoming financial year is threefold: 

1. If it materialises, we will oppose a planning application to build a secure children’s home on the land we want to transform into East London Waterworks Park. The site is Metropolitan Open Land, with the same status as Green Belt, and it should be protected from development of any kind. East London Waterworks Park will bring myriad benefits to the area and improve health and wellbeing for thousands of people. It will link the marshes of the Lower Lea Valley back together, creating acres of new habitat for wildlife during a climate and ecological emergency. Natural swimming ponds will provide inclusive opportunities for open-water swimming. Listed heritage buildings from the East London Waterworks Company era will be brought back into use for the community. A forest school will educate a new generation of children about living in harmony with nature. This vision is too precious to lose to a facility that can and should be built somewhere else, somewhere that is not protected Metropolitan Open Land. 

2. The inclusivity, design and learning circles will continue to develop our vision for East London Waterworks Park, building an inclusive community that supports our efforts to buy the land and create a biodiverse, community-owned park that reconnects people with nature. 

3. We will develop a public programme to help East London Waterworks Park build its profile locally, regionally and nationally by sharing what we are learning and facilitating conversations to encourage nature-first thinking more widely. 

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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitable company (Company number: 13154915). It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number: 1199414). The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow, London, E17 5HY. 




## **Statement of responsibilities of the directors** 

The directors of East London Waterworks Park are responsible for preparing the directors’ annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice). 

Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the East London Waterworks Park and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the East London Waterworks Park for that period. As a registered charity, these financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the rules laid down for trustees. Trustees are required to: 

- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently 

- observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP 

- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent 

- state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards and statements of recommended practice have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements 

- prepare the financial statements on the going-concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the company will continue in operation. 

The directors are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the East London Waterworks Park 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 East London Waterworks Park and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. 

The directors are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the East London Waterworks Park's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions. 

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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitable company (Company number: 13154915). It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number: 1199414). The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow, London, E17 5HY. 




Members of the company guarantee to contribute an amount not exceeding £1 to the assets of the company in the event of winding up. The total number of such guarantees at the time of writing is 18. The directors are members of the company but this entitles them only to voting rights. The directors have no beneficial interest in the company. 

The directors’ annual report has been approved by the directors on 12 July and signed on their behalf by: 


Abigail Woodman Chair 

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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitable company (Company number: 13154915). It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number: 1199414). The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow, London, E17 5HY. 




## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the directors of East London Waterworks Park** 

I report to the company directors on my examination of the accounts of the company for the 12 months ended 31 March 2025. 

## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner** 

The directors of East London Waterworks Park have chosen to prepare the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). 

Having satisfied myself that the accounts of East London Waterworks Park are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act, 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** 

Since East London Waterworks Park’s gross income is more than £25,000, your examiner needs to be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, which is one of the listed bodies. 

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: 

1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the East London Waterworks Park as required by section 130 of the Act; or 

2. the accounts do not accord with those records. 

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. 

Name: Eilish Kavanagh Date: 25 June 2025 

Signature: 


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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitable company (Company number: 13154915). 

It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number: 1199414). The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow, London, E17 5HY. 



, WATER
WORKS
PARK
East London Waterworks Park
Statemènt of flnanclal a¢tlvttl•s
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For the year ¢nded 31 March 2025
un￿tncted Reslncted
Funds
FurKIs
2025
Total
2024
Tot81
Income from:
Donations and legaues
Other trading activib.es
Interest inwne
4.817
2,087
18,454
4,817
2,087
18,454
12.338
1,694
14,025
Total incom8
2*359
25.359
28,057
Expenditure on-
Raising funds
Charitable actiwts.es
Purthase and rewldin9 of land
Public engagement and ￿presentatIOn
Strategic d8V8Wrn8nt
25
586
6,38fj
7,180
7,180
4,706
8,856
Total exponditur•
13.591
13,591
15,492
N•t mov•m•nt In funds
11.767
11,767
12,565
Reconclllatlon of funds
Total funds brought forward
607.771
607.771
595,206
Total funds earri•d fonvard
11
l of th8 atrK)v8 results are derived from (￿tinUing aCtivit￿s. There wer8 no other recognised 98ins or108s8s other
than those sta¢ed above. The attached noies fonn part of ¢hese fina￿#81 ststements.
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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitsble company (Cornpany nurnber.. 131549151.
It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number.. 11994141-
The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow. London. E17 SHY.

, WATER
WORKS
PARK
East London Waterworks Park
Balance sheet
As at 31 March 2025
2025
2024
Fixed •￿ets
Tango￿ fixed assots
Curr•nl ass•ts
Debtors
Stock
Cash al tsqnk arKI in harKI
13
617.978
607,015
619.538
607,8%
Creditorn: amounts due within 1 yev
125
Net current assets
619,538
607,771
N•t ass•ts
10
619,538
607,771
Funds
Unrestricted Funds
Designated fund
Ggneral (und5
11
583,782
35,756
42,905
Total unr8Strthd funds
619,$38
607.771
Totsl Fund•
619.538
607.771
For the financial year in question the c47mp¥by to exempti￿1 ur*Jer section 477 of the Companies
Acl 2CQ6 relating to small companiès.
No rnember5 have required the company to obtain an audit of its acc%￿nts for the year in questi￿ in
accordance with Secti￿ 476 of the Companies Act 2(￿.
The directors acanowledge th*r reS￿sbI1ty for 0)M￿Y1r￿j with the rgwir8ments of th8 ACt￿lh rospect to
a(zountiry recxyds arHJ f(K the plppwalK￿ of a(xounts.
AbBJail Woodman
Chair
12 ￿ty2025
The r*)tes to the accounts fLYm part of those financaal statem￿ts
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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitsble company (Cornpany nurnber.. 131549151.
It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number.. 11994141-
The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow. London. E17 SHY.

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WORKS
PARK
East London Waterworks Park
Statom•nt of Cash flows
For the year ended 31 March 2025
2025
2024
Cash flows from op•rntlng athttl•$
N•t ¢ash provld•d by op•ratlng actlvltl•s
12
10,963
49,765
Chang• In cash and cash •qufval•nis In th• y
10,963
49,765
Cash and cash equivalents at the begiming ofthe year
807,01S
557,250
Cash and cash equlvalents at the end ol the year
13
617978
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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitsble company (Cornpany nurnber.. 131549151.
It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number.. 11994141-
The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow. London. E17 SHY.

, WATER
WORKS
PARK
East London Waterworks Park
Notes to the FlnancSal Ststemenls
For the year ended 31 March 2025
1 Accountlng Pollcle#
Basls of pr•paration of financial stat•m•nts
The financial st8teffl*nts havtr baen prèparsd in *wrdancè wth pLe￿nb"n9 and R•Fth"ng by Ch8ritsas".
statement of Recommended Pract￿￿ applicatAe to charibe5 preparing th8ir 8ccixJnts in accordance Ihe
Financial Repor￿ng Siandard appliCa￿e in the UK and Republic of IrdaThJ IFRS 102- eifective 1 January
20151_ (Charities SORP FRS 1021 and Ihe Companies Aca 2006.
The charitable wnpany meets the definrfion of a publFC benefft enbty urmler FRS 102. Assets arKI liabilities
are In￿allY recognised al historical cost or transaction value unless othe￿ise stated in the relevant
accounting policy or not•.
b Golng COn￿M
The Directors do not consmler that there are any sources ofestimation unc8rtainty at th8 r8porting dat8
Ihat have a significant risk of causirg a malerial adju5trnent to Ihe canying arrK)unts of assets and liabil￿e$.
G Income
Income, inclLwJing irKome from government arNJ othergrants. is rewgnised wh&) the Charitab￿ ojmpany
has entitlemènt to the fuThJs, any perfc¥mance condrfions attached to the income have maL it is
probatA8 that the income will be re￿1Ved arKI that the arrK)unt can measured reliaNy.
Grants are credtted to income when they a￿ receivable unless they are for acbvities relating specffically to
a $￿c[￿C future period, in which cas8 thèy aré d8ferred to Ihat p8rK)d. Incom8 r8C8ived und8r (x)ntr8cts lor
serwces is rewgnised in the fmanoal slalemenls in proFort•￿ to the perC￿lage of C(rfnp1el￿n of the
contract.
d Donatlon5 of gttts. servlce5 and facllllles
Donated professh)nal services and facilities a￿ recognised as inccme when the charitable o)rnpany has
control over the item or received the sernce. any cx)ndthns assockated wtth the donation have been met,
thè recéipt of 8(￿0￿￿ l*nefit from tha use by tha dAritatAe company of the it8rn is probabl8 and that
ec¥)nornic benefit can be measured reliatAy. In accordance ￿1h the Chari￿$ SORP IFRS 1021. volunteer
11Th￿ is not rec￿gniSed so refer to the Injslees. annual reF*Yt for rm informabon abc*Jt their contribution.
On receipt, donated 9rf15. profe55ional serv￿8 and (kThled I￿￿111￿$ are reciNJnised on Ihe basis of Ihg
value of Ihe gift io the charilable company. whic* is the amount the ￿rnpanY have been willing to pay
to obtain services or facilth.es of gJuNalenl econom￿ benefft on the open mathet", a correspw)nding amount
is th8n r8cognis￿l in ex￿￿￿1bJr8 in Ihe WK)d of rE￿ipl
• Fund aeeountlng
Unrestrict8d funds are available to spend on acti￿tieS that furlher any of th8 purw)ses of the tharilable
company. Designated fvnds are unrestricted ftjnds which Ihe director5 have decaded at their di5¢￿trOn to set
aside to use for a specffj￿ wrwse. Restricted funds are donatN)ns which the donor has specffied are to be
solèly usad for particuL4r arèas of tha charila￿6 (X)mpan￿$ work or for 5￿CifiC projècts undèrtakan by th&
company.
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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitsble company (Cornpany nurnber.. 131549151.
It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number.. 11994141-
The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow. London. E17 SHY.

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WORKS
PARK
1 Aeeountlng Poll¢l•s leontlnuodl
f Expondltur• and Irr•eov•rabl• VAT
Expenditure is re(x)9nised On￿ there B a ￿nsIvuc1￿e obligathon to make a payment to a Ihird party.
it is probable that settlement wll be required and the amwnt of the o￿lgalIc￿ can be ￿￿aSured reliably.
Expenditure is dassified under tr* followng &tivity headiThJs".
Costs of raising fvnds CoM￿se of trading cx)sts and Ihe cosls inctJrTed by the Charitab￿ company in
ityjucing Ihird parties to make vduntary contributions to IL as well as the cost of any activities a
fundraising purpos8.
Expenditure on charilable acti￿tIeS indud85 the Ix)sts of ddivering s8rvic85 and other activit￿5
undert*en to fvrther the purpose5 of Ihe Charits￿e o)mpany and their asswated support costs.
Where costs cannot be directty attributed, they hal￿ teen allocated to acbwlies on a bass GOn￿Stent
th t￿1r us* of MSOUr￿$.
Irrecoverable VAT is thar9ed as a cos1 against activty for whith ￿ expendilure was incurred.
Alloeatlon of support eosts
Support costs are those functi￿S that 8S5iSt the th ofth? tharitab18 Ixjmpany but do not diredy
undertake charitable acts￿1*5. Supp)rt costs cr)mprise the overhead costs of the central function.
Govemance costs are the costs assocaated wth the ￿vema￿e arrarwJements ofthe d￿rita￿e company.
Thasé costs arè associat8d wrth eonststubonal and statutory wuir8m•nts and indudè any costs associa
with the strategic management of the ujmpany s actNitie5.
Support and gov•manc8 costs are rn-a1lL￿atsd to èach of th• actmtsès on Ihè folknwThJ basis whid) is an
85timate ot the amount oftim8 attriLKrtaL48 to 8ach acts
2024125
0.0%
40.0%
60.0%
2023124
10.0%
40.0%
40.0%
10.0%
Rai￿n9 funds
Purchasè and rewlding of land
Public $ngagam$nt and
Strat*gic DèvdoK¥Mnt
h Debtors
Trade and other debtor5 are re￿nISed at the setllement ar￿Unt due. ￿pay￿entS are valued at the
arrthjnt prepaid.
I Cash at bank and In hand
Cash at bank and cash in hand incI￿jeS cash aThJ short tem highty Iw]uid invesbnents with a short maturty
of three months or ￿$5 from the date of wuisthon oropening of the dep)sit or smilar account.
I Credltors and provlslt)n$
Cr*ditors and provi&ons arè rec￿jnISéd whèrè thè charrtabla ojmpany has a prèsènt oblig8tK)n rèsutting
from a past event that will probatAy result in the transfer of lu[￿S to 8 third party and the amount due to
Sett￿ the ob1mJatic￿ can be Measu￿ or estimaied reliably. Crediiors and provisions are nom)ally
recognised at their setdement arrK)unt after all0￿7ng any trade dkscounts due.
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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitsble company (Cornpany nurnber.. 131549151.
It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number.. 11994141-
The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow. London. E17 SHY.

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WORKS
PARK
East London Walerworks Park
Notes to the Flnanclal Statemenis
For the year ended 31 M•r¢h 2025
2 Incomo trom donatlons and legaclos
unrestrk￿ Restrk￿ Totsl 2025
2024
Individu81 donaticx)s
Grft
Corporat8 donat*Jns
Spacehive i*Jnations
General grants
Grfts in kind
3.211
176
3.211
176
6,809
4,099
1.430
Total donatlons and legaclos 2025
4817
4817
12.338
Totsl donatws aThJ legafies 2024
12,338
The gifts in kn'nd rdate to finan￿al s8Mce5 prowded by S. W81sh and independent a￿￿r( s8rvices. These are based
on estimates prowded by Ihese indMdual$ a$ to much the Se￿￿$ WWKI 0)st if aValbb￿ (x)mmer¢ially.
3. Olhertradlno a¢tlvltles
2025
2024
irtc*Th frty)) fuThJrai*NJ events
rDyalt￿S frorn T-shirt sa￿S
754
79
920
Sle$ of donated
940
T(￿1 01￿￿tradIng adl¥ll
2.009
1,694
Investment In¢ome
2025
2024
Interest on Charity Bank savings account
18.454
18.454
14.025
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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitsble company (Cornpany nurnber.. 131549151.
It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number.. 11994141-
The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow. London. E17 SHY.

WATER
WORKS
PARK
East London Waterworks Park
Not•8 to tho Flnanclal Stat•morrt8
Forth• yo*r •nd•d 31 March 2025
S An•ly•l¥ of •xp•ndltyr•
Purcha59 cf
18nd &
rthldlng
Publ
eng898m8nl &
pr88ènlalon
Straleglc
d&veolpm8nt
2025
Tothi
2024
Tot81
Ral$lng fund$
Govem8n¢¢
Support CO81$
Consultancy
Admlnislralkn c05t8
ProjeGI cost¥
Cost of ralslng fund8
Governance cost8
3,473
3,473
8,005
3.010
11,882
250
350
4,194
3,891
25
25
4,194
3,891
1,939
3,542
13,591
15,492
Suppport CO5t
Gov6rn8nce rxJ8ts
1.417
778
2,125
13.5421
Tot•1 •xp•ndltur• 2025
25
7.180
13,591
15.492
Proor y•ar
Unr8slrtcled dlr8cI 8XP8ndllure
Roslricled direct exppndilure
Unr8slricled support & governance costs allocatsd
250
3.362
8.520
350
3,010
15,492
336
350
Tolol expenditure 2024
1.344
4,706
8.856
15,492
Of the t0t8l8xp8nd￿r8. £13.591 was unr8strkted12024.. £15,492) and £nll wa8 r88lrfct8d12024.. £nlll.
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East London Waterworks Park Is Incory>orated In England and Wales as a charitable company (Company number.. 131549151.
It Is also a registered charity In England and Wales (Charity number.. 11994141.
The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Waltharnstow, London, E17 SHY.

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WORKS
PARK
East London Waterworks Park
Not•s to th• fina￿la1 stat•m•nts
For tho year ended 31 March 2025
6 N¢t Incorn• lorth• y￿r
This is ststed after '.
2025
2024
Inde￿ndent examin8rf8 remunerabon..
Independent examiner IGrft in kiThJ}
330
330
7 AnoJy$l$ ol Staff ¢osts. tw$tg• r•rnun•r*lon and •xp•nw. and th• ¢ost of k•y mon4ym•rrt p•rsonn•l
There were no staff employed by the chanty12024.' nill.
No tNstee remuneration or reirnbur5ernent of gxp8nse512024: nil)
D¢btor•
2025
2024
Debtors
Prepayments
326
20
861
8 Stock
2025
2024
Credltors: amounts du• wlthln 1 year
2025
2024
Trade rxeditor
125
125
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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitsble company (Cornpany nurnber.. 131549151.
It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number.. 11994141-
The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow. London. E17 SHY.

, WATER
WORKS
PARK
East London Waterworks Park
Notes to the financial 8tat8ments
For the y•ar ended 31 March 2025
10 AnaJy8is of net assets botween funds
UTh￿￿￿1•d Detslgnated Re8trfct•d Total funds
Tangible Fixed Assets
Current As58ts
abilities
35.755
583,782
619.537
Ngt ass•ts at 31 Mor¢h 202S
35755
583,782
619,537
11 Mov•m•nls In fvnds
At1Apr
At 31 Mar
Unr•8trl¢t•d funds
D8signated lunds
General funds
564.866
18,916
583,782
Total unr•strkt•d lund$
Total fvnd$
607.T11
21359
13.591
619,538
12 Reconclllatlon of n•t Income l {•xpondltur•) to n•t cash Ilow from operatlng actlvltles
2025
2024
N•t In¢om• forth• r•portlng wrlod
las p•r th• stat•m•nt of flnanclal adlvltots)
D8creas8 in debtor5
Decrease In stock
D8cr88S8 in crediiors
11,767
1679)
12.565
40,287
6LX)
126
Not cash Iu88d inl operating activilies
10,962
49,765
13 Analysis of cash and cash equivalents
2025
2024
Coop bank account
Charity Bank sawng account
34,195
583,782
617,977
42.148
564.867
607,015
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East London Waterworks Park is incorporated in England and Wales as a charitsble company (Cornpany nurnber.. 131549151.
It is also a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity number.. 11994141-
The registered office is at 45 Lyne Crescent, Walthamstow. London. E17 SHY.