TOYNBEE HALL

Registered charity 211850 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE UNIVERSITIES SETTLEMENT IN EAST LONDON

We are a multi-purpose charity working to eradicate poverty and disadvantage. We deliver a range of community services in advice, financial inclusion, learning and wellbeing. We share our experience of local action to influence national policy. We are also a residential community, conference and venue hire centre. More information can be found at www.toynbeehall.org.uk

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £1.5m for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in consolidated reserves from £12.44m to £10.88m. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and have adopted the going concern basis of accounting without material uncertainty.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Toynbee Hall (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~15.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (84% 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: 11.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/07/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alice Gacchair
• Adedamola Adedayo Olaleye
• Camile Claros De Oliveira
• Claire Anne Collins
• Kubrat Oladunni Ayandipo
• Liam Jonathan Patrick Keogh
• Luis Hui · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas Philip Edward Bowman-Scargill
• Samuel Joseph Thomas
• Thomas Nowacki · trustee of 1 other charity
• Yu-Shan Chiu

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

Operates in: Throughout London

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 CREATE SPACE LONDON.

• CREATE SPACE LONDON income £132k
• JUBILEE HALL TRUST LIMITED income £1.8m
• BURNLEY PENDLE AND ROSSENDALE COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £2.1m
• CONWAY HALL ETHICAL SOCIETY income £1.2m
• HOXTON HALL income £825k
• TOY HOUSE LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION OF TOWER HAMLETS income £248k

Side by side with its peers

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