DIALOGUE SOCIETY

Registered charity 1117039 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q59536362

Dialogue Society engages in activities to promote intercultural dialogue, greater understanding and community cohesion in the United Kingdom including-Seminars, Partnerships, Publications & Policies-Training & Support-Networking & Facilitating-Intercultural Events & trips-Outreach

Objects

1) TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE INTER-CULTURAL, INTER-FAITH AND INTER-COMMUNAL DIALOGUE, UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION IN THE UK AND/OR ELSEWHERE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.2) TO ENCOURAGE, TO UNDERTAKE, TO SPONSOR AND CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS ACADEMIC RESEARCH, WORK AND PUBLICATION THAT RELATES TO INTER-CULTURAL, INTER-FAITH OR INTER-COMMUNAL DIALOGUE IN THE UK AND/OR ELSEWHERE AND WILL CONTRIBUTE EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TOWARDS ADVANCING APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF CULTURES, FAITHS, RELIGIONS AND COMMUNITIES IN THE UK AND/OR ELSEWHERE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC.3) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS IN THE UK AND/OR ELSEWHERE WITH A VIEW OF PROVIDING THEM WITH HELP AND SUPPORT TOWARDS THEIR ACADEMIC STUDIES, HELPING THEM FORGE PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIC WORK PROJECTS, ENCOURAGING THEM TO SUPPORT ONGOING PROJECTS OF THE INSTITUTE AND OVERALL ENCOURAGING THEM TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS RAISING INTEREST IN INTER-CULTURAL DIALOGUE STUDIES.

Area of benefit: UK

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £75,659 at 31 March 2025, up from £71,481 the previous year, driven by a net incoming resource of £4,178. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £75,659, with cash and cash equivalents totaling £72,532, indicating adequate liquidity to meet its current liabilities of £34,271.

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

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05385343

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.

• SAKAR, Hakan, Dr — director, appointed 01/07/2026on trustee list
• BASSOY, Selcuk — director, appointed 07/11/2013on trustee list
• DEMIRPOLAT, Muammer — director, appointed 07/11/2013on 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 (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Hakan Sakar
• MUAMMER DEMIRPOLAT · trustee of 1 other charity
• SELCUK BASSOY

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 DIALOGUE SOCIETY OXFORD.

• DIALOGUE SOCIETY OXFORD income £106k
• GLOBAL DIALOGUE income £4.7m
• Dialogue Earth income £2.5m
• DORSET COMMUNITY ACTION income £666k
• COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £253k
• THE SOCIAL POLICY ASSOCIATION income £219k

Side by side with its peers

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