KENTISH TOWN IMPROVEMENT FUND

Registered charity 1124077 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

KTIF offers financial support to a range of services at Kentish Town Health Centre including social and healthcare, a programme for the arts, children's activities, multi disciplinary interactive healthcare and education training, support groups for long term conditions.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY LIVING IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE, OR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINION BY THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, PARTICULAR IN HEALTHY LIVING AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income
£179k
Latest spending
£207k
Registered
2008
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of £28,860 for the year ended 1 April 2025, resulting in total net assets decreasing to £277,308 from £306,168 in the prior year. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £66,314 are adequate to meet the stated policy target of six months of expenditure (£66,314). The filing confirms there are no material uncertainties impacting the going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months (reserves figure: £66k)
“This amounts to £66,314, which can be used in line with the charity’s objectives at the trustees’ discretion.” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 01/04/2025

  • Volunteers: 14
  • Government income: £2,473 — grants £2,473 (2); 1% of the £178,586 total gross income on the same return
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 01/04/2024

  • Volunteers: 4
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 01/04/2023

  • Volunteers: 6
  • Government income: £5,349 — contracts £2,458 (3), grants £2,891 (1); 38% of the £14,081 total gross income on the same return
  • Grant-making is its main activity

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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 01/04/2024 (received 04/03/2025, 31 days after the 01/02/2025 due date); year ending 01/04/2023 (received 05/02/2024, 4 days after the 01/02/2024 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Camden

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
01/04/2025£179k£207k
01/04/2024£218k£162k
01/04/2023£14k£141k
01/04/2022£65k£111k
01/04/2021£433k£128k

Common questions

Is KENTISH TOWN IMPROVEMENT FUND financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of £28,860 for the year ended 1 April 2025, resulting in total net assets decreasing to £277,308 from £306,168 in the prior year. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £66,314 are adequate to meet the stated policy target of six months of expenditure (£66,314). The filing confirms there are no material uncertainties impacting the going concern basis. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds KENTISH TOWN IMPROVEMENT FUND?

Funders whose own accounts filings name KENTISH TOWN IMPROVEMENT FUND as a grant recipient include LONDON CATALYST, CAMDEN GIVING.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
LONDON CATALYSTFY2025£5kCreative & arts workshops for people with physical & mental health problems.
CAMDEN GIVINGFY2021£4kEmergency COVID-19 Fund

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund22/05/2026£20kSocial Shapla Development
Camden Giving01/10/2024£2kDiversity of Crafts
The National Lottery Community Fund05/01/2024£20kSocial Shapla
The National Lottery Community Fund06/08/2021£10kDrawn Together
The National Lottery Community Fund06/11/2020£10kCreative Care
Camden Giving08/06/2020£4kKentish Town Improvement Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund03/05/2019£10kFreedom to Be

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 KENTISH TOWN COMMUNITY CENTRE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
KENTISH TOWN IMPROVEMENT FUND£179k—0no_policy—no doubt
KENTISH TOWN COMMUNITY CENTRE FY2025£201k—0unclear—no doubt
KENTISH TOWN CITY FARM LIMITED FY2026£445k—0above—no doubt
KYFFIN PLACE COMMUNITY CENTRE FY2025£358k—0unclear—no doubt
Kettering Town F.C. Community Trust FY2025£157k—0unclear—no doubt
KENT COMMUNITY HEALTH CHARITABLE FUND AND OTHER RELATED CHARITIES FY2025£95k—0within—no doubt

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