EAST EUROPEAN RESOURCE CENTRE

Registered charity 1114607 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EAST EUROPEAN ADVICE CENTRE

East European Resource Centre (previously East European Advice Centre) is an independent charity offering information, advice and resources to people from Eastern Europe in the area of welfare benefits, housing, employment, debt, immigration, education and health in order to help them to make choices in lives and realise their potential as equal equal and respected members of communities.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONG EAST EUROPEANS AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND AWARENESS OF RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £33,001 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £1,116,109 against total expenditure of £1,083,108. Per the trustees' report, the organization maintained financial stability through diverse funding sources, including statutory and independent grants, while unrestricted reserves increased to £444,274. The auditor confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Millet Audit Ltd. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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 05617439

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.

• BELL, Krystyna — director, appointed 22/05/2007on trustee list
• REED, Brian Phillip — director, appointed 09/11/2005on trustee list
• DRYMER, Gerarda — director, appointed 09/11/2005not on trustee list
• PAWLUCZYK, Wieslaw — director, appointed 09/11/2005on trustee list
• VADILLO, Elizabeth — director, appointed 09/11/2005on trustee list

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 ~1.9 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: 2.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• GERA DRYMERchair
• BRIAN REED
• ELIZABETH VADILLO
• KRYSTYNA BELL · trustee of 1 other charity
• WIESLAW PAWLUCZYK

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

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

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 CITIZENS ADVICE IN EAST DORSET AND PURBECK LTD.

• CITIZENS ADVICE IN EAST DORSET AND PURBECK LTD income £1.3m
• EAST BRISTOL ADVICE & INFORMATION CENTRES income £52k
• Citizens Advice East Suffolk income £1.2m
• Citizens Advice Cheshire East income £426k
• WEST VIEW ADVICE AND RESOURCE CENTRE LIMITED income £471k
• THE ESHER AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU income £272k

Side by side with its peers

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