
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

**From 1 October 2022  Period start date To 30 September 2023  Period end date** 

**Charity name: Chingford Community Association Charity registration number: 303263** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

|**Objectives and Activities**|||
|---|---|---|
||SORP<br>reference||
|Summary of the purposes of the<br>charity as set out in its governing<br>document|Para 1.17|(a)  To provide facilities for recreation and leisure-time<br>occupation for the inhabitants of Chingford and the<br>surrounding area.<br>(b)  To establish a Community Centre for activities promoted<br>by the Association in furtherance of the above objects.<br>The Association shall be non-party in politics and non-<br>sectarian in religion.|
|Summary of the main activities in<br>relation to those purposes for the<br>public benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or services<br>identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17<br>and 1.19|The Association continues to operate the Friday Hall<br>Community Centre for the use of clubs, commercial<br>organisations, and private individuals providing events<br>bringing benefit to the local community.|
|Statement confirming whether the<br>trustees have had regard to the<br>guidance issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public benefit|Para 1.18|The charity has regard to the guidance issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public benefit|



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|The charity does not make grants|
|Policy on social investment<br>including program related<br>investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by<br>volunteers|Para 1.38||
|Other|||



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## **Achievements and Performance** 

||SORP<br>reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to the<br>circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a whole.|Para 1.20|Eight clubs, each open to local people, met at the community<br>centre throughout the year.<br>A clinic was available for three days each week for local people to<br>access health professions.  During the year this was expanded to<br>five days each week.<br>Numerous one day events have been held in the hall by local<br>people, including childrens' and adults' parties, and meetings.|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

||||
|---|---|---|
|Achievements against<br>objectives set|Para 1.41||
|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||



## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s financial<br>position at the end of the period|Para 1.21|At the year end the charity held £128,744 in cash funds.|
|Statement explaining the policy<br>for holding reserves stating why<br>they are held|Para 1.22|The sum is held to assist the association in the security of its<br>centre including the provision of a larger hall|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|Nominally £125,000 of the cash funds are held for further<br>development of the community centre|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any uncertainties<br>about the charity continuing as<br>a going concern|Para 1.23||



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|The charity’s principal sources||The funds are accumulated from club subscriptions, rentals|
|---|---|---|
|of funds (including any<br>fundraising)|Para 1.47|by commercial users and day hire for parties.|



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|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any social<br>investment policy adopted|Para 1.46||
|---|---|---|
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|The Associations suffers from uncertainty in respect of the<br>provision of premises from the local authority.|
|Other|||



## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?|Para 1.25|Unincorporated association|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|Trustees shall be appointed by the Executive<br>Committee and confirmed by the Annual General<br>Meeting.|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

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|---|---|---|
|Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction and<br>training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the<br>charity works|Para 1.51|Each club which meets at the Community Centre is invited to<br>offer one member to join the executive committee which<br>manages teh day to day running ofthe community centre.|
|Relationship with any related<br>parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charityname|THE CHINGFORD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION|
|---|---|
|Other name the charityuses|CCA|
|Registered charitynumber|303263|
|Charity’s principal address|Friday Hall<br>56 Friday HIll East, Chingford  E4 6JT|
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**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

||**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**<br>**wholeyear**|**Name of person (or body)**<br>**entitled to appoint trustee(if any)**|
|1|Tom Dawson|Chairman/Treasurer|||
|2|Peter Hone||||
|3|||||
|4|||||
|5|||||



## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved 

**Director name** Tom Dawson Peter Hone 

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity 

**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** 

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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** 

Description of the assets held in this capacity 

Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects 

Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets 


## **Additional information (optional)** 

**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details 


## **Other optional information** 


## **Declarations** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Thomas Dawson 

**Position** Chairman Treasurer 

**Date** 15 June 2024 

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**Chingford Community Association 303263 Receipts and payments accounts** 

**CC16a** 

**Period from 01/10/2022 To 30/09/2023** 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest**<br>**£**<br>**5,704**<br>**43,928**<br>**3,477**<br>**134**<br>**-**<br>**683**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest**<br>**£**<br>**5,704**<br>**43,928**<br>**3,477**<br>**134**<br>**-**<br>**683**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest**<br>**£**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest**<br>**£**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest**<br>**£**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest**<br>**£**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest**<br>**£**<br>**5,704**<br>**43,928**<br>**3,477**<br>**134**<br>**-**<br>**683**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**53,925**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**53,925**<br>**1,620**<br>**327**<br>**1,388**<br>**262**<br>**392**<br>**900**<br>**293**<br>**90**<br>**95**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**5,367**|**Last year**<br>**to the nearest  £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Clubs<br>Commercial<br>Day Hire<br>Sales of beverages<br>Sales<br>Deposit Acc interest|**5,704**||**-**||**-**||**5,704**|**1,571**|
||**43,928**||**-**||**-**||**43,928**|**-**|
||**3,477**||**-**||**-**||**3,477**|**2,741**|
||**134**||**-**||**-**||**134**|**172**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**44**|
||**683**||**-**||**-**||**683**|**34**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|<br> **53,925**||**-**||**-**||**53,925**|**4,562**|
||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment**<br>**sales, (see table).**|||||||||
||**-**|||||||**-**|
||**-**<br>|||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**<br>**A3 Payments**|||||||||
|||||||||**4,562**|
||||||||||
|Gas<br>Water<br>Electricity<br>Rates<br>Broadband<br>Cleaning<br>PI Insurance<br>Compliance tests<br>Expenses<br>Bank charges<br>Buildingworks|**1,620**||**-**||**-**||**1,620**|**1,400**|
||**327**||**-**||**-**||**327**|**111**|
||**1,388**||**-**||**-**||**1,388**|**926**|
||**262**||**-**||**-**||**262**|**179**|
||**392**||**-**||**-**||**392**|**161**|
||**900**||**-**||**-**||**900**|**-**|
||**293**||**-**||**-**||**293**|**192**|
||**90**||**-**||**-**||**90**|**91**|
||**95**||**-**||**-**||**95**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**13**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**5,367**||**-**||**-**||**5,367**|**3,071**|





|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**|**-**<br>**-**<br> **-**<br> **5,367**<br>**48,558**<br>**-**<br>**80,186**<br>**128,744**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> <br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> <br>**-**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**-**|||**-**|||
||**-**|||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **<br>**_Total payments_ **<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||||||||
|||||||**3,071**|
||||||||
|||||**48,558**||**1,491**|
|||||**-**|||
|||||**80,186**||**78,695**|
|||||**128,744**|||
||||||||
||**128,744**|**-**|<br>**-**|**128,744**||**80,186**|



## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B3 Investment assets**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**<br>Current account<br>Deposit account<br>Cash<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and<br>payments account(s))<br>**Details**<br>**Details**|**Unrestricte**<br>**d funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>1,444.00<br>127,300.00<br>**-**<br>**128,744**<br>128744<br>**Unrestricte**<br>**d funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>0<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||0|
|||||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|





**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** 

## **B5 Liabilities** 

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees 

|**Details**<br>Men's Shed tools<br>Hall equipment: Tables/chairs<br>**Details**<br>Expenses owed to PJ Hone<br>Signature|**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>Unrestricted<br>**-**<br>Unrestricted<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**<br>**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**<br>Unrestricted<br>**737**<br>Print Name<br>T D Dawson|**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|---|---|---|
|||**975**|
|||**760**|
||||
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**-**|
|||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|||**15 October 2023**|
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|||Date of<br>approval|
||T D Dawson|15/01/2024|
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner s Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
THE CHINGFORD COMMUNrrY ASSOCIATION
On accounts year ended
3010912023
Charlty No
303263
Sel out on pages
1and2
I reFx)rt lo the trustees on my examination of Ihe accounts of the above
charty {Ihe Trustl for the year erMJed W0912023.
Respoislbllltles and As the chanty trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of
gsis of report the accounts in accordan￿ with the requirements of the Charilies Act 2011
(llhe Acn.
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act arKI in carying oul my examination, I have
followed the applicable Directions grven by the Charty Commission under
section 145(5){b} of the Act.
I have completed my examinalion. l Confim that no material malters have
come to my attention in connection with ihe examination which gives me
cause to believe that in, any malerial respe￿.
accountiThJ r￿rdS were not kept in accordance y￿th section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
Independent
examiner's stateme
I have no concerns and have come ac¥oss no other matters in conneclion
wilh the examination to which attenlion should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed:
Dale:
Zl ocr2•L3.
Name:
Clive Ramsey
Relevant professional
quallll¢allon(s) or body
(if any)-
Address:
10 Lindley Road
Leyton
E10 6QT
IER
October 2018

Section B
Disclosure
Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight matters ol concern (see
CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directM)ns and guidan
for examiuersl.
Glve here brief delails
ot any items that the
examiner wlshes to
discloso.
IER
Oclober 2018