THE KATHERINE LOW SETTLEMENT LIMITED

Registered charity 1081248 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KLS

Katherine Low Settlement is a multi-purpose charity that has been serving the communities of Battersea and Wandsworth since 1924. We are dedicated to building stronger communities so that we can enable people to challenge and find ways of poverty and isolation.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE SPIRITUAL, INTELLECTUAL AND PHYSICAL WELL-BEING OF THE INHABITANTS OF BATTERSEA AND ITS IMMEDIATE VICINITY HAVING SPECIAL REGARD TO THE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE.

Area of benefit: BATTERSEA AND ITS IMMEDIATE VICINITY.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £305,037 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with unrestricted reserves falling to £1,614. Per the trustees' report, this level of reserves is below the stated policy target of three to six months' operating expenditure, reflecting planned investment during a period of financial pressure. Despite the deficit and low reserves, the trustees and auditors confirm the charity remains a going concern with sufficient cash resources to meet obligations for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Thompson Jenner LLP. 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
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 22/02/2024, 22 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03814833

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• FOLEY, Mary Assumpta — director, appointed 28/01/2026on trustee list
• LACAILLE, Sarah — director, appointed 28/01/2026on trustee list
• LEWIS, Emily — director, appointed 28/01/2026on trustee list
• NYATHI, Dumisani — director, appointed 28/01/2026on trustee list
• NEWBERY, Victoria Mary — director, appointed 10/10/2024on trustee list
• ALCOCK, Martin Edward — director, appointed 04/01/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Victoria Mary Newberychair
• DUMISANI NYATHI
• Emily Lewis
• Martin Alcock
• Mary Foley
• Sarah Lacaille

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

Operates in: Wandsworth

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KENT SEARCH AND RESCUE (LOWLAND).

• KENT SEARCH AND RESCUE (LOWLAND) income £116k
• THE COTTAGE COMMUNITY income £104k
• THE CATHERINE COOKSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £954k
• CATZERO income £951k
• THE FERN STREET SETTLEMENT income £41k
• OTTERY HELP SCHEME income £230k

Side by side with its peers

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