KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA SOCIAL COUNCIL

Registered charity 1087457 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Kensington & Chelsea Social Council (KCSC) works to empower and support voluntary and community groups to improve the quality of life in Kensington and Chelsea - so that all citizens from the borough's vibrant and diverse communities can access services, influence decision-making and feel that they belong to an inclusive society.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN GREATER LONDON AND WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON & CHELSEA BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH, THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £228,020 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £1,101,256 to £738,031. The trustees' report notes that unrestricted funds were £181,306, which is above the stated reserves policy target of £150,000, and the trustees are confident they can maintain a solvent organisation for the year ahead. However, the auditor's report highlights that the charity faces financial challenges due to reduced funding and a competitive fundraising environment, with 89% of income derived from two major funders.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goldwins Limited. 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
• 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
• Trustee expenses 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04146375 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Vicki Harrison-Carr — Director of Operations (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.

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.

• ASANTE-YEBOAH, Francois — director, appointed 24/03/2026on trustee list
• GUETT, Lydia — director, appointed 19/02/2026on trustee list
• OKALI, Peter Ukiwo — director, appointed 23/06/2025on trustee list
• KNIGHT, Lucy Carmen — director, appointed 22/05/2025on trustee list
• DULI, Remzije — director, appointed 20/02/2025on trustee list
• MONIQUE STEPHEN, Simone Chantel — director, appointed 19/05/2023not on trustee list
• DEB, Modan Mohan — director, appointed 02/11/2021not on trustee list
• THAWER, Shelina — director, appointed 09/03/2020on trustee list
• SPENCE, Angela — secretary, appointed 12/11/2014

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Shelina Thawerchair
• Francois Asante-Yeboah
• Lucy Carmen Knight
• Lydia Guett
• Peter Ukiwo Okali
• Remzije Duli
• Simone Chantal Monique Stephen

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

Operates in: Kensington And Chelsea

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

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.

Charities like this

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

• VOLUNTEER CENTRE KENSINGTON & CHELSEA income £630k
• THE KEMPSTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £133k
• KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA FORUM FOR OLDER RESIDENTS income £77k
• THE KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA FOUNDATION income £2.1m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH, KENSINGTON income £771k
• THE KENSINGTON SOCIETY income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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