TOYNBEE HALL

Registered charity 211850 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q1164207 · Wikipedia · 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

Objects

1 TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP: 1.1 BY PROVIDING GOODS, SERVICES AND/OR ADVICE TO PERSONS WHO SUFFER FROM HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS, INCLUDING BY VIRTUE OF THEIR HEALTH, AGE, OFFENDING STATUS, ECONOMIC OR OTHER SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES;1.2 BY UNDERTAKING AND SUPPORTING RESEARCH INTO FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND THE MOST APPROPRIATE WAYS TO MITIGATE THESE; AND1.3 BY RAISING AWARENESS AND INFORMING AND INFLUENCING THE PUBLIC AND PUBLIC POLICY ON THESE ISSUES;2 TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, BY UNDERTAKING AND SUPPORTING RESEARCH INTO FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND THE MOST APPROPRIATE WAYS TO MITIGATE IT AND BY RAISING AWARENESS AND INFORMING AND INFLUENCING THE PUBLIC AND PUBLIC POLICY ON SOCIAL EXCLUSION;3 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF EXPERIENCES, LEARNING AND ENGAGEMENT, ENHANCING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, AMONGST OTHER THINGS, LIFELONG LEARNING AND CITIZENSHIP FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT;4 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF DRAMA, MIME, DANCING, SINGING AND MUSIC;5 TO PROVIDE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT BY THE PRESERVATION, REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE OF THE HISTORIC BUILDING KNOWN AS TOYNBEE HALL SITUATED AT 28 COMMERCIAL STREET, LONDON E1 6LS; AND/OR 6 TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AT LARGE AND/OR INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE 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.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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

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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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.

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 4.7 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 (5.3%) (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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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

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Funders of similar charities

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• TINTINHULL COMMUNITY HALL income £92k
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• TROWBRIDGE TOWN HALL TRUST LTD income £363k
• TEIGNBRIDGE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICES income £1.1m
• TOOGOODTOWASTE LIMITED income £1.6m
• THORPE HOUSE SCHOOL TRUST income £5.5m

Side by side with its peers

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