Polish Social and Cultural Association

Registered charity 236745 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as P O S K - POLSKI OSRODEK SPOLECZNO-KULTURALNY, POLISH SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ASSOCIATION LIMITED, POLSKI OSRODEK SPOLECZNO KULTURALNY, POSK

Promotion of Polish Culture, education, hIstory, arts, literature, drama. Maintaining Polish Library and Theatre. Maintaining mutli purpose building to provide recreation facilities, offices, restaurant .

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded an operational deficit of £101,192 for the year ended 31 December 2024, a significant improvement from the £653,934 deficit in the prior year. Total reserves stood at £9,879,353, which the Trustees consider sufficient to maintain the going concern status with minimal risk. The charity relies heavily on investment property income and grants, while noting that the absence of bequests contributed to the current funding gap.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Richard Place Dobson Services Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Marcin Kalinowski — Przewodniczący POSK (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 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 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~71.7 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 (45% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Agnieszka Kuchnia-Wolosiewicz
• Dorota Agata Lewis
• Marcin Slawomir Kalinowski
• Monika Kobylec · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tomasz Szpringer
• Wiktor Moszczynski
• Wlodzimierz Anthony Christopher Mier-Jedrzejowicz
• Zaneta Brudzinska

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Monika Kobylec — trustee here and at THE POSK FOUNDATION

Known funders

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

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 POLISH CULTURAL FOUNDATION LIMITED.

• POLISH CULTURAL FOUNDATION LIMITED income £149k
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• POLISH SCOUTING ASSOCIATION (INTERNATIONAL) LIMITED income £393k
• POLISH ASSOCIATION GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £118k
• BRISTOL OLD VIC AND THEATRE ROYAL TRUST LIMITED income £7.6m
• SOUTH LONDON THEATRE CENTRE LIMITED income £183k

Side by side with its peers

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