REFUGEE COMMUNITY KITCHEN

Registered charity 1186729 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RCK

The relief for people in need in Calais, Dunkirk, Brussels and London and the surrounding areas and specifically for them to access food and other services and items which thereby alleviate hunger caused by the lack of opportunities or resources to obtain sufficient food.

Objects

THE RELIEF FOR PEOPLE IN NEED IN CALAIS, DUNKIRK, BRUSSELS AND LONDON AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS AND SPECIFICALLY FOR THEM TO ACCESS FOOD AND OTHER SERVICES AND ITEMS WHICH THEREBY ALLEVIATE HUNGER CAUSED BY LACK OF OPPORTUNITIES OR RESOURCES TO OBTAIN SUFFICIENT FOOD.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £86,976 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £312,044 to £225,068. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £104,958, which the trustees state covers approximately 2.5 months of running costs, slightly below their policy target of three months. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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)

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 31/12/2021 (received 02/11/2022, 2 days after the 31/10/2022 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Refugee Community Kitchen (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNA GRADYchair
• Andrea Denise Marguerite Oliver
• Mary Cecelia Bittner

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

Operates in: Belgium · France · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with REFUGEES AT HOME.

• REFUGEES AT HOME income £924k
• CAN COOK income £1.5m
• PONTEFRACT COMMUNITY KITCHEN income £16k
• LEIGH CARING KITCHEN income £730k
• COMMUNITY KITCHEN (MANCHESTER) LTD income £114k
• GREENWICH REFUGEE AID AND COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE income £100k

Side by side with its peers

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