ALEVI CULTURAL CENTRE AND CEMEVI OF ENGLAND

Registered charity 1041394 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ALEVI CULTURAL CENTRE & CEM-EVI, LONDON ALEVI CULTURAL CENTRE AND CEM EVI

Principal activity of the organisation is to provide hard to reach communities with advice, information resources, guidance & practical support to improve their health, knowledge & welfare, education and living standards. The charity is also at the forefront of promoting humanism with its faith alevism.

Objects

TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS IN UK PARTICULARLY GREATER LONDON AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £122,611 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves increasing to £1,511,340. The trustees expressed confidence that future grants and donations would be sufficient to complete current projects and generate a better financial surplus. The charity holds significant tangible fixed assets valued at £2,584,254, including freehold property, while maintaining a small cash balance of £45,144.

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 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (40% 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: 70.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Burcin Yilmaz
• Hasret Bozdogan
• Kazim Kilic
• Tugba Ozcivan

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

Operates in: Enfield · Hackney · Haringey

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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