RESOURCE FOR LONDON

Registered charity 1015305 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LONDON VOLUNTARY SECTOR RESOURCE CENTRE LTD, THE RESOURCE CENTRE, THE RESOURCE CENTRE (LONDON) LIMITED

The object of Resource for London is to benefit the public by the promotion and improvement of the efficiency and effectiveness of charitable organisations. Its principal activity is to operate a resource centre for charities, providing them with office accommodation, conference rooms, meeting rooms and other facilities at an affordable rent.

Objects

(I) FOR THE PROMOTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND (II) THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROVISION AND MANAGEMENT OF OFFICE ACCOMMODATION, CONFERENCE, TRAINING AND OTHER FACILITIES, SERVICES OR SUPPORT

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE LONDON.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity is in the process of solvent winding up following the sale of its centre and the decision to cease operations. Unrestricted reserves of £228,194 were held at year-end, which comfortably exceeded the stated policy target of three months' operating costs. The financial statements were prepared on a basis other than going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lynda Anne Stevenschair
• Douglas Gunn
• Kevin Pease
• Pandora Haydon

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CENTRE FOR LONDON.

• CENTRE FOR LONDON income £645k
• THE LONDON CENTRE FOR SPIRITUAL DIRECTION income £140k
• THE LONDON CITY MISSION income £8.4m
• PROPER JOB RESOURCE CENTRE income £239k
• LONDON ACCOUNTANCY PRACTICE income £74k
• RESTART LIVES income £315k

Side by side with its peers

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