LATIMER COMMUNITY ART THERAPY

Registered charity 1206182 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LATIMER COMMUNITY ART THERAPY CIC, LCAT

Latimer Community Art Therapy (LCAT) is a grass roots charity in London, which provides accessible professional mental health support through art psychotherapy as well providing community services and activities, to support creativity, physical, social, and emotional development. Our home, the Henry Dickens community centre (HD) is an inclusive, safe, and inspirational space for the community.

Objects

A. THE ADVANCEMENT OF MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OF PEOPLE IN THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA AND NEIGHBOURING LONDON BOROUGHS (THE “AREA OFBENEFIT”), IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING ART PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS AND PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE PROVISION OF THE SAME;B. THE RELIEF OF PERSONS IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH OR ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OFPSYCHODYNAMIC ART PSYCHOTHERAPY, COMMUNITY SERVICES, AND FACILITIES FOR COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION INCLUDING THE PLAYING OF AMATEURSPORT.C. TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR THE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE THE 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: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £87,498 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £49,695. The trustees confirm that cash flow projections have been prepared through 2027 and that tight financial controls are in place, with no material uncertainties affecting the going concern basis.

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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Kensington & Chelsea Foundation — “We are proud to have successful grants from the following: Kensington & Chelsea Foundation” (source page)
• Gumball Foundation — “We are grateful for the generous donations from: Gumball Foundation” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Lucy Easthope LLMScPhDchair
• Michael Stephen Ashe
• Nigel Ruddock
• Rasha El-Sady

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

Operates in: Brent · City Of Westminster · Hammersmith And Fulham · Kensington And Chelsea

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONG EATON ART ROOM.

• LONG EATON ART ROOM income £122k
• HONITON COMMUNITY COMPLEX income £437k
• LONDON ACCESSIBLE PSYCHOTHERAPY & INCLUSIVE SUPERVISION income £83k
• ART THERAPY YORKSHIRE income £66k

Side by side with its peers

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