Newlands Community Association is registered as a charitable company limited by guarantee and was set up by a Memorandum of Association on August 2003, charity number 1091241.

The principal object of the company is to relieve poverty, advance education and provide, and assist in the provision of facilities for recreation or leisure time, thus improving the quality of life for the inhabitants of Bradford.

The charity’s aims, objectives and activities are reviewed each year. This review looks at the activities undertaken in the previous year to ensure that benefits have been brought to those the charity was set up to help, the review also helps to ensure the activities remain focused on the stated aims and objectives.

Activities for achieving objectives
In order to further these objects the charity has promoted a number of projects that will bring benefit to the community by providing and improving local facilities. The charity & NCA (Trading) Ltd have developed sites which were previously owned by Bradford Metropolitan District Council (BMDC) who transferred ownership via assess transfer. A condition of the asset transfer was that these sites were developed by NCA for the benefit of the local community.

Main activities undertaken to further the charity’s purposes for the public benefit
Throughout this last year NCA (Charity) has continued to support local community organisations, either through waiving of rent, rent subsidies or other support.

Supporting local organisations:
• Ravenscliffe Community Association
• North Bradford Food Bank
• Eccleshill Community Association
• Ravenscliffe Youth Centre
• Rockwell Community Centre
• Kangaroo Kids
• Ravenscliffe Community Environment Project
• SNOOP (unit for climbing wall)
• Sherwood Green Gateway Day Nursery
• Newlands Furniture Project
• East Bradford Youth Service

NCA has continued to support the very small organisations working in the Newlands area, who need ‘hand holding’.

NCA has been working more closely with Council Neighbourhood Services, especially community wardens to share information on local activities and groups and to connect Wardens to other organisations, statutory and voluntary, working in the Newlands area.

Review of activities
During the year Newlands Community Association has:
• continued to strengthen working relationships between the charity, local groups and organisations
• continued to support Bradford North Food Bank by encouraging donations
• Sherwood Green nursery took over the nursery premises at Gateway Centre, Ravenscliffe, in November 2023 and this setting has gone from strength to strength providing high quality nursery provision for local families