IMECE WOMEN'S CENTRE

Registered charity 1101882 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IMECE TURKISH SPEAKING WOMEN'S GROUP

Advice & Information, Violence against Women and Girls Service, Therapeutic Services, Mental Health and Well Being, Elderly Support, Family Support, Training for Professionals, Domestic Abuse and Harmfull Practices Training. Volunteering. Awareness raising with Communities, Confidence building with Women, Campaign against child abuse, Campaign to end Violence against Women and Girls. NRPF

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF WOMEN WHO RESIDE OR WORK IN THE BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON AND SURROUNDING AREA IN PARTICULAR TURKISH CYPRIOT/TURKISH/KURDISH/TURKISH SPEAKING WOMEN FROM TURKEY AND LONDON BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID WOMEN AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID WOMEN, AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON, IN PARTICULAR ISLINGTON, HACKNEY AND HARINGEY

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £13,343 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £995,312 against total expenditure of £981,969. Per the trustees' report, accumulated reserves stood at £433,657, with £429,366 classified as free/unrestricted income reserves. The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate to meet liabilities as they fall due and that funding for the subsequent year has been secured from existing sources.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04262910

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.

• AKSAC, Rana — director, appointed 10/03/2023on trustee list
• PINAR, Yasemin — director, appointed 11/02/2022on trustee list
• KAYIKCI, Yesim Seher — director, appointed 21/04/2021on trustee list
• LUMLEY, Olcay — director, appointed 15/05/2020on trustee list
• DUR, Senay — secretary, appointed 06/01/2020

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (98% 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

• Olcay Lumley
• Rana Aksac
• Yasemin Pinar
• Yesim Seher Kayikci

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

Operates in: Barking And Dagenham · Enfield · Hackney · Haringey · Islington · Lewisham · Newham · Redbridge · Tower Hamlets · Waltham Forest

Income and spending

Common questions

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 WOMEN AND GIRLS NETWORK.

• WOMEN AND GIRLS NETWORK income £7.3m
• WOMEN’S HEALTH MATTERS income £850k
• FAITH AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS COALITION income £314k
• AYLESBURY WOMEN'S AID income £1.1m
• THE WISH CENTRE LIMITED income £269k
• STAFFORDSHIRE WOMEN'S AID income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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