GSKD

Registered charity 1175698 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GOKSUN SOLIDARITY AND CULTURAL CENTRE BRITAIN, GOKSUNLULAR SOSYAL DAYANISMA VE KULTUR DERNEGI

Community support for those from a part of Turkey from different ethnic backgrounds especially Turkish and Kurdish, activities for the disabled, women and youth, social event organisations

Objects

1)TO ADVANCE TURKISH CULTURE, IN PARTICULAR THAT OF THE GOKSUN COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING CULTURAL ACTIVITIES TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE; AND2)TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £46,126 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £125,567 against expenditure of £78,951. Per the trustees' report, accumulated unrestricted reserves stood at £102,598, and the trustees believe these levels, combined with financial controls, provide sufficient resources for adverse conditions.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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 31/12/2023 (received 16/12/2024, 46 days after the 31/10/2024 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• TURABI DONMEZchair
• ERGUN TASCI
• HIZIR AYDEMIR
• HUSEYIN KOC

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

Operates in: 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 HALKEVI-THE KURDISH AND TURKISH COMMUNITY CENTRE.

• HALKEVI-THE KURDISH AND TURKISH COMMUNITY CENTRE income £170k
• TURKISH CYPRIOT WOMEN'S PROJECT income £116k
• YSS income £1.0m
• TURKISH AND KURDISH CHILDREN'S GROUP income £25k
• HUNDRED FLOWER CULTURAL CENTRE income £60k
• SALAHUDDIN TRUST income £133k

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