ASSOCIATION FOR THE POLISH FAMILY/ STOWARZYSZENIE NA RZECZ POLSKICH RODZIN PYZA

Registered charity 1143505 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as APF PYZA

General advice and information: advice and support of welfare rights, education, health, social and economic deprivation. We offer a full range of services with the overall aim of preventing the worsening of members circumstance and to enable self-sufficiency.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THE POLISH CITIZANS BY:A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING; ANDB) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources were £411,080, with total resources expended at £356,933, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The charity holds total funds carried forward of £167,089, indicating that unrestricted and restricted reserves are sufficient to cover current liabilities and ongoing operations without immediate risk.

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 3 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
• Paying staff
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2025 (received 13/02/2026, 8 days after the 05/02/2026 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Association for Polish Families (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• KAMILA DYCZKOchair
• ANDRZEJ ADAMECZEK
• FRANCESCA GOODING
• GILLIAN NAOMI MARTIN

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

Operates in: Merton · Wandsworth

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with POLISH ASSOCIATION GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

• POLISH ASSOCIATION GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £118k
• THE RELIEF SOCIETY FOR POLES TRUST income £51k
• ZJEDNOCZENIE POLSKIE W WIELKIEJ BRYTANII C.I.O. income £38k
• THE FAMILY FOUNDATION income £86k
• THE POLISH EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY income £471k
• FAMILIES THRIVING TOGETHER income £34k

Side by side with its peers

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