POLISH ASSOCIATION GLOUCESTERSHIRE

Registered charity 1176870 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as "POLSKIE STOWARZYSZENIE W GLOUCESTERSHIRE", PAG, POLISHGLOS · filing overdue (register status)

1.To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by:- providing a local network group offering support, services and assistance- events involving the local community designed to foster community cohesion and raise awareness and understanding of culture and heritage2.To advance education within the polish community by providing a supplementary school providingtuition in polish language

Objects

1) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY WORKING WITH PEOPLE IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF OR CREED OR THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POSITION (IN PARTICULAR, MEMBERS OF THE POLISH COMMUNITY) TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PEOPLE AND ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) PROVIDING A LOCAL NETWORK GROUP OFFERING SUPPORT, SERVICES AND ASSISTANCE DESIGNED TO RELIEVE NEED AND ENCOURAGE AND ENABLE SUCH PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE MORE EFFECTIVELY WITH THE WIDER COMMUNITY;B) THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO ENABLE SUCH PEOPLE TO INTEGRATE AND ADAPT TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.C) PROVIDING SOCIAL AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES AND EVENTS INVOLVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITY DESIGNED TO FOSTER COMMUNITY COHESION AND RAISE AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF POLISH ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE. 2) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA IN PARTICULAR WITHIN THE POLISH COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING A SUPPLEMENTARY SCHOOL PROVIDING TUITION IN POLISH LANGUAGE, HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, CULTURE, TRADITIONS AND HERITAGE.

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.

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Registered contact address: Gloucester, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £28,889 for the period, with total income of £118,447 against expenditure of £89,548. The trustees describe the financial position as stable and note that reserves are maintained at reasonable levels to provide a financial buffer. No specific unrestricted reserves figure or reserves policy target is explicitly quantified in the provided text.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 07/01/2025 (received 07/05/2026, 181 days after the 07/11/2025 due date); year ending 07/01/2022 (received 31/01/2023, 85 days after the 07/11/2022 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• KONRAD MIKLUS
• MACIEJ STANKE
• Zofia Malgorzata Karkola-Lubacha

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INCLUSION GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

• INCLUSION GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £1.0m
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE DEAF ASSOCIATION income £1.2m
• THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE SOCIETY income £160k
• ASSOCIATION FOR THE POLISH FAMILY/ STOWARZYSZENIE NA RZECZ POLSKICH RODZIN PYZA income £88k
• THE RELIEF SOCIETY FOR POLES TRUST income £51k
• THE POLISH EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY income £471k

Side by side with its peers

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