CENTRE FOR PEACEFUL SOLUTIONS

Registered charity 1117611 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1) To establish, promote and provide services directed to the resolution of conflict between persons, groups or organisations through mediation. 2) To provide education and training concerning the resolution of disputes or conflicts and in particular to promote understanding of the nature and causes of any such dispute or conflicts. 3) To promote and provide education and training for those person

Objects

2.1) TO ESTABLISH, PROMOTE AND PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND THE BETTER PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC ORDER, SERVICES DIRECTED TO THE RESOLUTION OF CONFLICT BETWEEN PERSONS, ORGANISATIONS OR GROUPS WHICH ARISES FROM INTERPERSONAL CONFLICT, PRINCIPALLY THROUGH THE MEANS OF MEDIATION, CONCILIATION AND GROUP FACILITATION AND TO PROVIDE SUCH SERVICES FOR PEOPLE AT RISK OF BECOMING INVOLVED IN SUCH DISPUTES.2.2) TO PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING CONCERNING THE RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES OR CONFLICTS AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF ANY SUCH DISPUTE OR CONFLICT AND OF THE MEANS OF MANAGING DISPUTES OR CONFLICTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF THEIR PEACEFUL RESOLUTION IN THE INTERESTS OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP.2.3) TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR THOSE PERSONS WHO DESIRE TO BECOME MEDIATORS, CONCILIATORS AND FACILITATORS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure for the year of £58,820, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £677,513 to £618,693. The trustees' report indicates that the main income comes from charity shop profits and Gift Aid, with a stated reserves policy to cover six months of running costs. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate 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 Goldwins. Discloses 6 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
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Maria Arpa — Founder and Visionary (source)
• David Ellis — Director (source)
• Tom — Deputy Director (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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (91% 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

• MARIA ARPAchair
• Noor Akbar
• PAUL ROSE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Willam Harold Arthur Scoones

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.

• CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT income £59k
• CENTRE FOR EFFECTIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION LIMITED income £8.0m
• PEACEFUL CHANGE INITIATIVE income £3.0m
• CIVIL MEDIATION COUNCIL LIMITED income £246k
• SPIRIT OF PEACE income £35k
• The Family Mediation Trust income £395k

Side by side with its peers

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