The Custom House and Canning Town Community Renewal Project
Key takeaways
- The charity has no published way to apply, and none was found in its annual report, its register entry or its website, so contacting it directly is the sensible first step.
- Its stated priority is the London Borough of Newham, and its work centres on Custom House and Canning Town and the wider Newham community, so a group working there is the closest fit.
- It supports local groups mainly through heavily subsidised use of its community hall and practical help with legal and financial set-up, so a request for that kind of support may suit it better than a request for cash.
- Neither its annual report nor its register entry gives a grants figure, and no grant range is stated, so there is no basis for judging a realistic cash request size; tie any ask to a clearly costed need.
- Its themes are community development, and its broader purposes include relieving poverty, advancing education and training, protecting the environment and providing recreation and leisure facilities, so a project in those areas that builds local capacity matches its aims.
Overview
The Custom House and Canning Town Community Renewal Project is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1035200).
The Custom House and Canning Town Community Renewal Project is a registered charity whose mission is to develop and manage self-sustaining local groups, community-controlled assets and activities and enterprises for local people. It uses surpluses from rent to assist local community groups and projects. It organised a £2.25 million refurbishment that created four floors of offices and amenities, and its subsidised use of the hall is equivalent to financial support of over £40,000 a year. Its support takes the form of heavily subsidised hall rental and practical help with the legal and financial mechanisms a group needs.
What they fund
Priority Areas
The charity supports residents of Custom House and Canning Town and the wider community of Newham. It uses surpluses from rent to assist local community groups and projects. Support includes heavily subsidised use of its community hall, which helps smaller groups establish themselves or attract them to the area, and practical help with the legal and financial mechanisms a group needs to operate, or running those mechanisms for it. Its broader charitable purposes include relieving poverty, advancing education and training, protecting the environment, and providing recreation and leisure facilities for social welfare. It combines management of community buildings and assets with capacity-building support for local initiatives and activities.
Themes
- Community development
Geographic Focus
Priority: London Borough of Newham.
How to apply
No way to apply was found in the charity's annual report, its register entry or its website.
Where they fund
Where it says it funds
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Five years of accounts
| Financial year | Income | Expenditure | Grants paid | Accounts document |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| year to 30 June 2021 | £252,022 | £311,626 | — | Accounts for year to 30 June 2021 |
| year to 30 June 2022 | £298,239 | £256,628 | — | Accounts for year to 30 June 2022 |
| year to 30 June 2023 | £269,655 | £283,487 | — | Accounts for year to 30 June 2023 |
| year to 30 June 2024 | £272,380 | £276,147 | — | Accounts for year to 30 June 2024 |
| year to 30 June 2025 | £262,746 | £275,584 | — | Accounts for year to 30 June 2025 |
Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.
Sources
Registers and filings
Other sources
- chctcrp.org.uk/index.php/capacity-building · read on 25 October 2026
- chctcrp.org.uk/index.php/about · read on 25 October 2026
- chctcrp.org.uk · read on 25 October 2026
This profile draws on the funder’s own website as well as its filed accounts.
Sources last checked on 25 October 2026.
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- Charity Commission register entryContact details as held by the Charity Commission