DONCASTER CONVERSATION CLUB

Registered charity 1159775 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing advice and support to refugees and asylum seekers in the Doncaster area

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE IN DONCASTER WHO ARE SEEKING ASYLUM OR WHO HAVE BEEN GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING RESOURCES AND SERVICES WHICH WILL HELP THEM TO ADAPT WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY.

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

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Latest income

£35k

Latest spending

£31k

Registered

2015

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity will cease operations on 31 March 2026 due to succession planning challenges and volunteer strain. Financial sustainability is currently supported by a guaranteed grant from the local Council covering running costs, rent, and office support. The trustees have explicitly disclosed the impending closure to stakeholders to allow for potential takeover by alternative providers.

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

What the accounts disclose

Going concern: accounts NOT prepared on a going-concern basis (closing, merging or winding up)

“To avoid this the trustees wrote to all stake holders in November 2024 stating that the DCC will close on the 31 st of March 2026.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: The charity rents premises from the Balby (Doncaster) Local Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

“The charity rents the use of premises from the Balby (Doncaster) Local Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) (“the Meeting”).” — page 4

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited. Discloses 2 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
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

AKEELA MOHAMMED · trustee of 1 other charity
Annette Dews · trustee of 1 other charity
BASIL NADEEM
Barbara Julie Stone
JAN FOSTER
NIC BURNE

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

Operates in: Doncaster

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£35k	£31k
31/03/2024	£33k	£30k
31/03/2023	£6k	£15k
31/03/2022	£15k	£9k
31/03/2021	£17k	£14k

Common questions

Is DONCASTER CONVERSATION CLUB financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity will cease operations on 31 March 2026 due to succession planning challenges and volunteer strain. Financial sustainability is currently supported by a guaranteed grant from the local Council covering running costs, rent, and office support. The trustees have explicitly disclosed the impending closure to stakeholders to allow for potential takeover by alternative providers. Its FY2025 accounts were audited.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	04/02/2022	£9k	Re-imagining Doncaster Conversation Club
UK government	30/07/2020	£5k	VSCE CMC Fund