CIVIC POWER FUND

Registered charity 1203784 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Civic Power Fund is a charity that focuses on developing the capacity and skills of the members of socially and economically disadvantaged communities in the United Kingdom through funding community organising.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY PROVIDING PROJECT GRANT FUNDING AND SUPPORT SO THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £258,788, which falls within the trustees' stated policy target of £150,000 to £300,000. The charity reported a net income of £1,039,607 and total funds carried forward of £1,898,390, indicating a stable financial position despite a slight underspend in designated funds.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by DSC Accountants Ltd. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 13635441

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Martha Mackenzie — Executive Director (source)
• Mohammed Afridi — Director of Organising (source)
• Liz Pepler — Director of Finance (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• WILLIAMS, Patrick Kevin — director, appointed 11/12/2024on trustee list
• AWOJOBI, Martha — director, appointed 02/10/2024on trustee list
• PASKINS, Daniel Alexander — director, appointed 16/07/2024on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Nicola Jane — director, appointed 21/03/2023on trustee list
• LOWLES, Nicholas — director, appointed 21/09/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Daniel Alexander Paskinschair
• Dr Patrick Williams · trustee of 1 other charity
• Martha Awojobi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas Lowles
• Nicola Jane Williams

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CIVIC FUTURE.

• CIVIC FUTURE income £1.4m
• THE CITIZENSHIP FOUNDATION income £715k
• POWER FOR THE PEOPLE income £230k
• THE BIDGLEY POWER FOUNDATION income £104k
• CITIZENS UK CHARITY income £12.0m
• COMMUNITY PEOPLE MID SUSSEX income £446k

Side by side with its peers

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