Polish Social and Cultural Association

Registered charity 236745 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q257061 · Wikipedia · 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 .

Objects

(1) THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE ASSOCIATION IS ESTABLISHED ARE:(A) TO PROMOTE AND FURTHER EDUCATION AND LEARNING IN THE RESPECTIVE HISTORIES, ARTS, LITERATURES,LANGUAGES AND CULTURES OF POLAND AND OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND GENERALLY TO PROPAGATEEDUCATION, AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING OBJECTS TO CARRY OUT THESAME WITH A VIEW, IN PARTICULAR, TO ADVANCING, DEVELOPING AND ENCOURAGING A GREATER MUTUALUNDERSTANDING AND A GREATER DEGREE OF INTELLECTUAL CO-OPERATION AND CULTURAL INTERCOURSEBETWEEN PERSONS WHO ARE EITHER WHOLLY OR IN PART OF POLISH EXTRACTION, ORIGIN OR DESCENT ANDWHO ALSO ARE OR SHALL AT ANY TIME HAVE BEEN EITHER PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILY RESIDENT WITHINTHE UNITED KINGDOM (WHICH PERSONS ARE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS “POLES”) ON THE ONE HANDAND THE OTHER PEOPLE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ON THE OTHER HAND.(B) TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE, SPONSOR, ENCOURAGE, ASSIST IN, FURTHER AND DEVELOP EDUCATION, TRAININGAND LEARNING IN EVERY FIELD OF ART, SCIENCE, LITERATURE, CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, TECHNOLOGY,MECHANICS, VOCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES AND OTHER SUBJECTS AND IN PARTICULAR THEEDUCATION AND TRAINING OF AND LEARNING AMONGST POLES.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND NORTHERN IRELAND

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is an excerpt from an Independent Auditor's Report and does not contain financial statements, trustee reports, or narrative sections detailing the charity's financial health, reserves, or operational status. Consequently, no facts regarding financial health can be extracted from this text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Affinia (Crawley). Discloses 3 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 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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 00816310 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

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.

• KUCHNIA-WOLOSIEWICZ, Agnieszka — director, appointed 14/07/2026on trustee list
• LEWIS, Dorota Agata — director, appointed 14/07/2025on trustee list
• KOBYLEC, Monika — director, appointed 19/11/2024on trustee list
• MIER-JEDRZEJOWICZ, Wlodzimierz Anthony Christopher — director, appointed 19/11/2024on trustee list
• MOSZCZYNSKI, Wiktor — director, appointed 19/11/2024on trustee list
• SZPRINGER, Tomasz — director, appointed 19/11/2024on trustee list
• BRUDZINSKA, Zaneta — director, appointed 19/11/2024on trustee list
• MIER-JEDRZEJOWICZ, Wlodzimierz Anthony Christopher — secretary, appointed 19/11/2024

Official officers record.

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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~71.2 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 (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 (5.3%) (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

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• 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 ABC POLISH SATURDAY SCHOOL IN POOLE.

• ABC POLISH SATURDAY SCHOOL IN POOLE income £100k
• POLISH CULTURAL FOUNDATION LIMITED income £229k
• ACTIVE LUTON income £15.7m
• POLISH ASSOCIATION GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £118k
• THE POLISH INSTITUTE AND SIKORSKI MUSEUM income £1.8m
• POLLOCK'S TOY MUSEUM income £41k

Side by side with its peers

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