ST CLEMENT & ST JAMES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

Registered charity 1009253 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST CLEMENT AND ST JAMES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, THE CLEMENT JAMES CENTRE

Our vision is for everyone in our community to release their potential and live fulfilled lives. We achieve this through education, employment and wellbeing support in a safe and compassionate space. We provide:Employment support for young people and adults;Children and young people's education programmes;Adult Learning courses;Wellbeing and support activities

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£1.3m

Latest spending

£1.3m

Registered

1992

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £4,650 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £1,340,449 against total expenditure of £1,335,799. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £776,348, which is sufficient to cover over six months of running costs, exceeding the stated policy target of six months.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £60,001 - £70,000 — below the median for charities its size (£70k)

“One employee received more than £60,000 - £70,000 during the year” — page 35

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 1

“One employee received more than £60,000 - £70,000 during the year (2024: £60,000-£70,000 one).” — page 35

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Largest income source: IntoUniversity (14% of income)

“The two largest elements of income came from The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea £156,169 (2024: £244,571) and IntoUniversity £190,000 (2024: £190,000).” — page 17

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: six months' running costs (held: £776k)

“consider that it is appropriate to continue to seek to set aside free reserves to cover up to six months’ running costs.” — page 17

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: The charity received grants from IntoUni totalling £190,000. IntoUni was established by two of the charity's trustees. At year end, a balance of £7,444 was owed to IntoUni by the charity and a balance of £436 was owed to the charity by IntoUni.

“During the period the charity received grants from IntoUni totalling £190,000. The aggregate of donations received from the Trustees & related parties in the year was £434 (2024 £6,607). At year end, a balance of £7,444 was owed to IntoUni by the charity and a balance of £436 was owed to the charity by IntoUni.” — page 39

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

What the charity says about itself (2023/24)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

The charity states that approximately 2,500 people accessed its services in the reported year.

“We have achieved strong results across our programmes, with approximately 2,500 people accessing our services.”

The charity reports that 1,537 children and young people were supported in the academic year 2023-2024.

“In the academic year 2023-2024, the charity supported 1,537 children and young people (2022-23: 1,624) and 855 adults (2022-23: 870) from its target group.”

The charity raised over £50,000 through the Leighton House event.

“One of the highlights of the year was the Leighton House event, which raised over £50,000.”

The charity reports that 73% of Year 13 students in its education programme progressed to university, employment, training, or apprenticeships.

“73% of our Year 13 students progressed directly to university, employment, training or apprenticeships;”

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Dami Solebo — Chief Executive Officer (source)
Esther Pickering — Chief Programmes Officer (source)
Leo Reid — Chief Operations Officer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Total income

£1.3m

Total spending

£1.3m

Cost of raising funds

£86k

Reserves (reported)

£776k

Employees

32

Reported reserves equal ~7.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Simon Glucinachair
Abdul Rahim Bah
Helen Jane Anthony
Johanna Karen Weston
Katherine Soanes
Laurie Richardson
Neil Lewis Stuart Wilson
Rev Gareth Wardell · trustee of 1 other charity
Saqlain Farid Choudhary
Susan Vanessa Casey

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Kensington And Chelsea

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£1.3m	£1.3m
31/08/2024	£1.4m	£1.4m
31/08/2023	£1.3m	£1.3m
31/08/2022	£1.3m	£1.2m
31/08/2021	£1.3m	£1.2m

Common questions

Is ST CLEMENT & ST JAMES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £4,650 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £1,340,449 against total expenditure of £1,335,799. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £776,348, which is sufficient to cover over six months of running costs, exceeding the stated policy target of six months. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by HaysMac LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of ST CLEMENT & ST JAMES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £60,001 - £70,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

Who funds ST CLEMENT & ST JAMES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT?

Funders whose own accounts filings name ST CLEMENT & ST JAMES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT as a grant recipient include THE SOBELL FOUNDATION, THE HEADLEY TRUST, THE LINBURY TRUST, THE CAMPDEN CHARITIES TRUSTEE, DRAPERS CHARITABLE FUND.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE SOBELL FOUNDATION	FY2022	£100k	capital expansion project
THE HEADLEY TRUST	FY2025	£75k	Towards the running costs.
THE LINBURY TRUST	FY2022	£50k	To support the Centre’s Employment Programme, working with local people experiencing disadvantage, unemployment, and the bespoke pathways back into employment.
THE LINBURY TRUST	FY2023	£50k	To support the Employment Programme. Second payment of a three-year £150k grant.
THE LINBURY TRUST	FY2024	£50k	To support the Employment Programme.
THE CAMPDEN CHARITIES TRUSTEE	FY2023	£41k	Referral Related Funding
THE HEADLEY TRUST	FY2024	£25k	Towards running costs of activities at the Clement James Centre.
DRAPERS CHARITABLE FUND	FY2023	£15k	Literacy and numeracy programme in North Kensington
THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£9k	Young People’s Education programme
THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£9k	Young People’s Education programme
THE GOSLING FOUNDATION LIMITED	FY2023	£5k	Youth
THE OGDEN TRUST	FY2023	£5k	Grants to institutions
The Ethos Foundation	FY2023	£5k	Other smaller grants
THE PETER STEBBINGS MEMORIAL CHARITY	FY2022	£5k
THE CAMPDEN CHARITIES TRUSTEE	FY2022	£5k	Referral Funding
THE WILLIAM ALLEN YOUNG CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£4k
THE HELEN HAMLYN TRUST	FY2024	£4k
THE WILLIAM ALLEN YOUNG CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£3k
THE HISCOX FOUNDATION	FY2024	£3k
THE CHILDHOOD TRUST	FY2023	£3k
THE CORCORAN FOUNDATION	FY2025	£1k
THE LORD FARINGDON CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£1k
THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£1k	Young People’s Education programme
THE GARTH DOUBLEDAY TRUST	FY2024	£1k
THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£1k	Young People’s Education programme
THE GARTH DOUBLEDAY TRUST	FY2023	£800
THE GARTH DOUBLEDAY TRUST	FY2022	£600
THE HISCOX FOUNDATION	FY2025	£0

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	05/03/2026	£15k	‘More Than a Meal’ Building pathways to wellbeing support in North Kensington
The National Lottery Community Fund	07/11/2024	£15k	The ClementJames Centre's Wellbeing programme
City Bridge Foundation	02/08/2023	£164k	Grant to St Clement and St James Community Development Project
The National Lottery Community Fund	27/01/2023	£330k	Intensive 1:1 Support in North Kensington
The Mercers' Company	30/06/2022	£79k	Grant to St Clement & St James Community Development Project
The Mercers' Company	06/10/2020	£25k	Grant to St Clement & St James Community Development Project
UK government	31/07/2020	£95k	Coronavirus Community Support Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund	20/09/2019	£308k	Intensive One-to-One Support in North Kensington
City Bridge Foundation	16/09/2019	£23k	Grant to St Clement and St James Community Development Project
City Bridge Foundation	25/07/2019	£95k	Grant to St Clement and St James Community Development Project
City Bridge Foundation	19/07/2017	£10k	Grant to St Clement and St James Community Development Project
City Bridge Foundation	24/05/2016	£95k	Grant to St Clement and St James Community Development Project
The National Lottery Community Fund	03/02/2016	£10k	The ClementJames Centre- Community Hub Studio
The National Lottery Community Fund	09/04/2014	£9k	Cross-centre literacy and numeracy programme
The National Lottery Community Fund	09/10/2009	£10k	Academic Support Media Suite
City Bridge Foundation	10/09/2009	£96k	Grant to St Clement and St James Community Development Project
The National Lottery Community Fund	23/11/2005	£115k	Study Support Club
The National Lottery Community Fund	12/07/2005	£45k	New Learning Space

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
DUCHY OF LANCASTER BENEVOLENT FUND	1	£3k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. CLEMENT WITH ST. MARK, NOTTING DALE AND ST. JAMES, NORLANDS.

THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. CLEMENT WITH ST. MARK, NOTTING DALE AND ST. JAMES, NORLANDS income £257k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES' WOODSIDE LEEDS income £154k
THE JAMES CHARITIES income £519k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES GERRARDS CROSS WITH ST JAMES FULMER income £1.1m
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES', CLITHEROE income £461k
ST JAMES MAR THOMA CHURCH-UK income £338k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
ST CLEMENT & ST JAMES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT	£1.3m	£60,001 - £70,000	1	above	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. CLEMENT WITH ST. MARK, NOTTING DALE AND ST. JAMES, NORLANDS FY2025	£257k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES' WOODSIDE LEEDS FY2025	£154k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE JAMES CHARITIES FY2025	£519k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES GERRARDS CROSS WITH ST JAMES FULMER FY2025	£1.1m	£60,001 - £70,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES', CLITHEROE FY2025	£461k	£34,202	0	above	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.