VOLUNTEER CENTRE KENSINGTON & CHELSEA

Registered charity 1076392 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Volunteer Centre aims to support and facilitate the development of quality community services through the promotion of voluntary action throughout Kensington and Chelsea. -Raising the profile and impact of volunteering-Provision of volunteer recruitment programmes-Provision of volunteer advice, information and support service-Promotion of good practice in the deployment of volunteers

Objects

A) TO PROMOTE THE VALUE AND IMPACT THAT VOLUNTEERING AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT CAN HAVE ON RESPONDING TO AND SUPPORTING THE NEEDS OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION, AND TO UNDERTAKE AND ARRANGE VOLUNTARY WORK IN EDUCATION, SOCIAL SERVICES AND SIMILAR CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AMONGST THOSE IN NEED THEREOF IN THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA AND OTHER PARTS OF LONDON IN GENERAL ( HEREINAFTER CALLED THE AREA OF BENEFIT)

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON, KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a modest deficit for the year, with total expenditure of £644,274 against income of £630,466. Despite this, unrestricted reserves increased to £298,290, which the trustees confirm is above their stated policy target of three months of total expenditure. The trustees consider the charity to be financially sustainable and a 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 5 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Volunteer Centre Kensington & Chelsea (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (57% 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: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ruth Leonardchair
• Anne-Helene Biosse Duplan
• JOSEPH CARIM
• Karen Boecker
• Kishma Ann-Marie Smithurst
• MUSKAAN KHURANA
• Maria-Iuliana Dinu
• Nkechi Mary-Viola Obi
• Rossana Rocchini · trustee of 2 other charities
• Tina Learmonth
• Tristan Bungaroo

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

Operates in: Kensington And Chelsea

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• VOLUNTEER CENTRE HACKNEY income £1.2m
• KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA SOCIAL COUNCIL income £1.2m
• THE VOLUNTEER CENTRE- CHESTERFIELD AND NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE income £164k
• THE RICHMOND UPON THAMES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £335k
• YORK CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £1.7m
• NORTH TYNESIDE VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY income £876k

Side by side with its peers

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