KNOWLE WEST MEDIA CENTRE

Registered charity 1092375 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q30282706 · also known as KNOWLE WEST MEDIA PROJECT, KWMC

To achieve cultural, social and economic regeneration by involving the community in media activity, education and action. Social Capital: building involvement, trust and decision making. Digital Creativity: as a force for change and route into education. Environmental Action: local awareness leading to global change. Enterprise: developing opportunities for local businesses and work.

Objects

2.1 The Charity's objects are restricted specifically, in each case only for the public benefit to:a) To utilise the power of technology, media and the arts to develop the capacity and skills of people in socially and economically disadvantaged communities, with a focus on working directly with those living in Knowle West and South Bristol. b) To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, and assisting them to integrate into society. For the purpose of this clause ‘socially excluded’ means being excluded from society, or part of society, as a result of being a member of a socially and economically disadvantaged community.

Area of benefit: MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY OF KNOWLE WEST.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a deficit on unrestricted funds of £99,836 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reducing its free reserves to £172,104. This was below the trustees' stated reserves policy target of £280,000. The trustees consider the group to be a going concern, noting that future viability depends on securing sufficient funding to cover committed costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson 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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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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 03/02/2024, 3 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Knowle West Media Centre (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 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 (86% 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: 16.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Agnes Catherine Davidson
• Kiki Paddy
• Miriam Anna Venner
• POLLY ALICE DAVIS

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY IN PARTNERSHIP KNOWLE WEST.

• COMMUNITY IN PARTNERSHIP KNOWLE WEST income £289k
• COMMUNITY INITIATIVES SOUTH WEST LIMITED income £1.7m
• KNOWLE WEST HEALTH PARK COMPANY income £467k
• LIBRARIES UNLIMITED SOUTH WEST income £9.4m
• SCIENCE MEDIA CENTRE income £775k
• THE WEST END COMMUNITY TRUST income £45k

Side by side with its peers

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