KALEIDOSCOPE DIVERSITY TRUST

Registered charity 1146274 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KALEIDOSCOPE INTERNATIONAL DIVERSITY TRUST, KALEIDOSCOPE TRUST

The Kaleidoscope Trust works to advance the human rights of LGBT people in countries where they lack their equal rights, particularly in the Commonwealth. We do this by listening, amplifying and communicating their voices to a wider audience to persuade public and political opinion and work as a catalyst for meaningful change to end discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Objects

THE COMPANY’S OBJECTS (“OBJECTS”) ARE:1.1 TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) AND PARTICULARLY THE RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF THOSE WHO FACE DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION, INCLUDING BY:1.1.1 MONITORING ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS;1.1.2 OBTAINING REDRESS FOR THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE;1.1.3 RELIEVING NEED AMONG THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE;1.1.4 RESEARCH INTO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;1.1.5 EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS;1.1.6 PROVIDING TECHNICAL ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS ON HUMAN RIGHTS MATTERS;1.1.7 CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW;1.1.8 COMMENTING ON PROPOSED HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION;1.1.9 RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;1.1.10 PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS;1.1.11 PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS;1.1.12 INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY OF HUMAN RIGHTS;1.1.13 ELIMINATING INFRINGEMENTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS.AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THIS OBJECT BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE DIRECTORS SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO ENGAGE IN POLITICAL ACTIVITY PROVIDED THAT THE DIRECTORS ARE SATISFIED THAT THE PROPOSED ACTIVITIES WILL FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE COMPANY TO AN EXTENT JUSTIFIED BY THE RESOURCES COMMITTED AND THE ACTIVITY IS NOT THE DOMINANT MEANS BY WHICH THE COMPANY CARRIES OUT ITS OBJECTS;1.2 TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BY:1.2.1 THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION;1.2.2 ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS OF ALL ASPECTS OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION;1.2.3 CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £163,727 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £833,922 to £670,195. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £308,583 remain above the stated policy target of four months of core expenditure (£176,463). The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with sufficient resources to meet core costs for four months.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Jackson Nicholas Assie Limited. 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
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 31/03/2022 (received 22/02/2023, 22 days after the 31/01/2023 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 — Kaleidoscope Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Beth Dowling-Jones — Interim Chair (source)
• Laura Crandley — Treasurer (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 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 (88% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Vishal Desaichair
• Adam Barriball
• David Bholat
• Jasvir Singh · trustee of 2 other charities
• Krisha Gandhi
• Laura Crandley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marie-Helene Tyack
• Matthew Hedges
• Tobi Olasunkanmi

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

Operates in: Antigua And Barbuda · Australia · Bangladesh · Barbados · Belize · Bermuda · Botswana · Brunei · Cameroon · Canada · Cyprus · Dominica

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 KALEIDOSCOPE PROJECT.

• KALEIDOSCOPE PROJECT income £19.5m
• KALEIDOSCOPE PLUS GROUP income £2.3m
• LGBT FOUNDATION LTD income £3.7m
• Out Together income £87k
• THE EQUALITY TRUST income £430k
• CARDIFF WALES LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER MARDI GRAS income £698k

Side by side with its peers

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