## **ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHINGFORD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION**
Registered Charity No 303263
## **Address:**
Friday Hall 56 Friday Hill East Chingford E4 6JT
## **TRUSTEES**
TD Dawson PJ Hone
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
## **The governing document**
The Association operates under its Constitution adopted 28th May 1963 as amended 25th November 1982
## **Charitable objects**
- (1) to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Chingford and its neighbourhood without distinction of sex or of political, religious or other opinions by associating the local authorities voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure-time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants for the achievement of these and other charitable objects.
- (2) to establish or to secure the establishment of a community centre.
## **Appointment of charity trustees**
Trustees may be appointed by the agreement of the trustees at the time.
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
This section describes how the charity’s aims fulfil its legal purposes, the activities it undertakes and what it has achieved.
## **A description of the purposes of the charity**
The Chingford Community Association’s purpose is to provide space within Friday Hall as a Community Centre that is available to local groups who wish to hire the premises in whole or in part for leisure, educational and health related activities,
## **The main activities undertaken by the charity to further its charitable purposes for the public benefit**
The Chingford Community Association operates Friday Hall as a community centre within a building owned by the local authority. It makes rooms available for the use of the people of Chingford and the surrounding area.
Friday Hall is available during the hours of 9am to 11pm every day throughout the year for regular activities, which include club meetings, educational classes and leisure activities, as well as health-related clinics and meetings.
When not in use by a regular user, the hall may be hired on an hourly basis as a meeting space and for parties.
During the year the hall and lounge have been hired out to a Cardiac Clinic for day-time use on most weekdays. During the evenings and weekends it has been used for regular club meetings by clubs including a Repair café, Radio Club, Art club, Exercise club, Stroke Survivors Friendship Club, for example, as well as a Saturday Tuition group and weekend parties for children and adults. This has kept the hall very well occupied throughout the year.
## Signed on behalf of the trustees
In carrying out their powers and duties throughout the year the trustees of the Chingford Community Association state that they have complied with their duty to have due regard to the Charities Commission's public benefit guidance.
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Chingford Community Association 303263
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
Period from 01/10/2023 To 30/09/2024
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Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest to the nearest to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£ £ £
A1 Receipts
Clubs 5,841 - - 5,841 5,704
Commercial 33,931 - - 33,931 43,928
Day Hire 3,834 - - 3,834 3,477
Sales of beverages 193 - - 193 134
Sales - - - - -
Deposit Acc interest 2,176 - - 2,176 683
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for
- - 45,973 53,925
AR) [ 45,973 ]
A2 Asset and investment
sales, (see table).
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 45,973 - - 45,973 53,925
A3 Payments
Gas 1,987 - - 1,987 1620.27
Water 421 - - 421 327
Electricity 1,655 - - 1,655 1387.94
Rates 152 - - 152 262.16
Broadband 447 - - 447 392.04
Cleaning 1,380 - - 1,380 900
PI Insurance 303 - - 303 293.2
Compliance tests 85 - - 85 90
Expenses 1,212 - - 1,212 94.52
Bank charges - - - - 0
Building works - - - - 0
- - - - 0
Sub total [ 7,641 ] - - 7,641 5,367
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**A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)**
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- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments [ 7,641 ] - - 7,641 5,367
Net of receipts/(payments) 38,332 - - 38,332 48,558
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 128,744 - - 128,744 80,186
Cash funds this year end 167,076 - - 167,076 128,744
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|
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|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**
Current account
Deposit account
Cash
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and
payments account(s))
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
1,154.57
165,921.87
**-**
**167,076**
128744
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
0
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||0|
|||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**
Men's Shed tools
Hall equipment: Tables/chairs
**Details**
Signature|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
**-**
Unrestricted
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
Print Name
T D Dawson|**Current value**
**(optional)**
**975**
**760**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval
27/07/2025|
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAH) AND WALES
Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examinerfs Report
Report to the trustees
The Chin
ford Communi
Association
On accounts for the year
ended
30 September 2024
Charity no
ifan
303263
Set out on pages
1of1
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity ("the Trust") for the year ended 3010912024.
Responsibilities and
basis of report
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
("the Act").
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I
have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
examiner's ststement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me
cause to believe that in any material respect;
the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130
of the Charities Act. or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records" or
the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements
concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities
(Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 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.
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.
Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.
Date:
Signed:
Name:
Clive Ramse
Relevant professional
qualification(s) or body
(if any):
Address:
10 Lindle
Road, Le
on E106T
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern
(see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and
guidance for examiners).