CATALYTICACTION

Registered charity 1169604 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

CatalyticAction is a charity that uses design and architecture to empower vulnerable children, young people and their communities. We achieve this through built and research projects, delivered using a participatory approach that engages local communities.

Objects

THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PEOPLE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHO ARE THE VICTIMS OF WAR OR NATURAL DISASTER, TROUBLE, OR CATASTROPHE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY(A) PROVIDING DESIGN SERVICES;(B) PROVIDING ADVICE ON BUILDING HOUSING AND ACCOMMODATION AND PUBLIC AND PRIVATE OPEN SPACES; (C) PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING, ADVOCACY AND ADVICE AND (D) THE PROVISION OF ANY OTHER SUCH CHARITABLE SERVICES AS THE TRUSTEES CONSIDER FIT IN FURTHERANCE OF THE SAID OBJECT.

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £207,852 against total expenditure of £209,887, resulting in a net deficit for the year. However, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £141,532, which the trustees confirm represents approximately nine months of operating costs, exceeding their policy target of six months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr ANDREA RIGONchair
• ANDY HILTON
• Grace Christine Nalty
• Maria Ignacia Ossul Vermehren
• Sandra Jeanette D'Urzo

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

Operates in: Italy · Jordan · Lebanon · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CATALYST SUPPORT LIMITED.

• CATALYST SUPPORT LIMITED income £5.2m
• INTEGRITY ACTION income £3.4m
• STREET ACTION income £143k
• PRO ACTION HERTFORDSHIRE income £123k
• CATALYST NETWORK OF CHURCHES income £797k
• PRACTICAL ACTION income £33.1m

Side by side with its peers

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