HODAN SOMALI COMMUNITY

Registered charity 1150732 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SOMALI COMMUNITY LIVING AND/OR WORKING IN KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA AND THE SURROUNDING BOROUGHS IN PARTICULAR TO RELIEVE POVERTY, ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that Hodan Somali Community reported a net income increase of £61,434 for the year ended 31 March 2026, bringing total funds to £189,051. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £151,909, which significantly exceeds its stated policy target of three months' expenditure. The trustees confirmed that the financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08179170

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Postcode Society Trust — “@PostcodeSocietyTrust for a generous grant of £25,000” (source page)

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.

• HON, Priscilla — director, appointed 15/08/2018not on trustee list
• ALI, Mahdi Abdillahi — director, appointed 02/05/2018on trustee list
• HASSAN, Shukri — director, appointed 02/05/2018on trustee list
• JAMA, Sahra Hussein — director, appointed 27/01/2016not on trustee list
• ALI, Khalid Mohamed — secretary, appointed 18/09/2024

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/04/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jama Sahra
• Kaltun Ahmed
• Mahdi Abdillahi Ali
• Priscilla Hon
• Shukri Hassan

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

Operates in: Brent · Camden · City Of Westminster · Ealing · Hammersmith And Fulham · Hillingdon · Kensington And Chelsea

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOMALI DISABILITY & ELDERLY SUPPORT GROUP.

• SOMALI DISABILITY & ELDERLY SUPPORT GROUP income £110k
• LAMBETH SOMALI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £116k
• HOLBORN MUSLIM COMMUNITY AND WELFARE ASSOCIATION income £242k
• SOMALI BANADIR ASSOCIATION IN UK income £30k
• ISLINGTON SOMALI COMMUNITY income £147k
• SOUTH TOTTENHAM MUSLIM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £66k

Side by side with its peers

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