THE LONDON IRISH CENTRE

Registered charity 1149787 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q6670524 · Wikipedia · also known as LI CENTRE LIMITED

SERVING THE WELFARE AND CULTURAL NEEDS OF THE IRISH COMMUNITY IN LONDON THROUGH A RANGE OF SERVICES INCLUDING: ADVICE, ADVOCACY, OUTREACH, DAY CENTRE SERVICES, VOLUNTEERING, HEALTHY LIVING, MISSING PERSONS, EDUCATION, REFERRALS AND OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN AND PARTICIPATE IN IRISH MUSIC, DANCE, LANGUAGE AND THEATRE.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, AND INCLUDING FOR THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE FROM THE IRISH COMMUNITY: 1 TO RELIEVE AND COMBAT POVERTY, DISTRESS FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, AND SICKNESS; 2 TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, UNEMPLOYMENT OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; 3 TO PROMOTE IRISH ART, CULTURE AND HERITAGE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; 4 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN IRISH CULTURE AND LANGUAGE; 5 TO ADVANCE ANY SUCH OTHER PURPOSE BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.?

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity recorded an operating surplus of £49k for the year ended 30 September 2025, following a period of strategic change and inflationary pressures. The Trustees report that unrestricted funds are maintained at a level to cover three months' net expenditure, and the auditor confirmed no material uncertainties regarding the Charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Affinia (Stratford). 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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.

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 30/09/2022 (received 05/09/2023, 37 days after the 30/07/2023 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08221421

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The London Irish Centre (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• HEGARTY, Jennifer Niamh — director, appointed 01/04/2025on trustee list
• O' RIORDAN, James Anthony — director, appointed 01/04/2025not on trustee list
• BENMAOU, Caoimhe — director, appointed 01/11/2024on trustee list
• GODSON, Rory James — director, appointed 01/11/2024on trustee list
• CONNAUGHTON, Thomas Wolfe Tone — director, appointed 09/11/2023on trustee list
• BRACKEN, Edward — director, appointed 01/08/2023on trustee list
• MURPHY, Angela Mary — director, appointed 01/08/2023on trustee list
• HUNT, Declan Christopher — director, appointed 08/10/2022on trustee list
• MCGOWAN, Mary Patricia — director, appointed 22/01/2020on trustee list
• BLAIR, Rosaleen — director, appointed 22/01/2020on trustee list
• DOHERTY, James Patrick — director, appointed 09/09/2019on trustee list
• GODDARD, Thomas Christopher — director, appointed 06/05/2018not on trustee list
• O'CONNOR, Michael Cornelius — director, appointed 15/11/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~16.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (61% 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: 10.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/12/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rosaleen Blairchair
• Angela Murphy
• Caoimhe Benmaou
• Dame Mary Patricia McGowan
• Declan Christopher Hunt
• Edward Bracken
• James Anthony O'Riordan
• James Patrick Doherty
• Jennifer Hegarty
• Michael O'Connor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rory James Godson
• Thomas Connaughton
• Tom Goddard

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

Operates in: Essex · Hertfordshire · Kent · Surrey · Throughout London

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 LONDON ISLAMIC CULTURAL SOCIETY.

• LONDON ISLAMIC CULTURAL SOCIETY income £282k
• LEWISHAM IRISH COMMUNITY CENTRE income £357k
• THE DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTRE income £576k
• IRISH COMMUNITY SERVICES income £492k
• ISLAMIC CENTRE OF ENGLAND LIMITED income £700k
• THE LONDON WELSH CENTRE TRUST income £535k

Side by side with its peers

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