NUCLEUS COMMUNITY ACTION LTD

Registered charity 269325 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NUCLEUS EARLS COURT COMMUNITY ACTION LTD, NUCLEUS LEGAL ADVICE CENTRE

Nucleus combats poverty by providing advice and access to social welfare advice through telephone advice, face to face advice and representation.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.2m
Latest spending
£1.0m
Registered
1975
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £62,512 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total reserves standing at £1,179,713. The trustees report that free reserves excluding tangible fixed assets totalled £396,876, which is considered adequate to cover contractual commitments and working capital needs. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £60,001 - £70,000 — below the median for charities its size (£70k)
“The number of employees whose employee benefits (excluding employer pension costs) exceeded £60,000 was: £60,001 - £70,000 1” — page 22
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Employees paid over £60,000: 1
“The number of employees whose employee benefits (excluding employer pension costs) exceeded £60,000 was: £60,001 - £70,000 1” — page 22
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £397k; policy: three and nine months' expenditure)
“At the year end the free reserves carried forward excluding tangible fixed assets totalled to £396,876 (2024 - 393,858) of which £347,000 (2024 - £347,000) was designated to building maintenance, furniture and equipment, staff contingency and computer development.” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Grant Harrod Lerman Davis LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £450k. 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 31/03/2026)

Total income
£1.2m
Total spending
£1.0m
Reserves (reported)
£751k
Employees
22

Reported reserves equal ~8.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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

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

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

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2026£1.2m£1.0m
31/03/2025£1.0m£948k
31/03/2024£876k£784k
31/03/2023£711k£873k
31/03/2022£937k£980k

Common questions

Is NUCLEUS COMMUNITY ACTION LTD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £62,512 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total reserves standing at £1,179,713. The trustees report that free reserves excluding tangible fixed assets totalled £396,876, which is considered adequate to cover contractual commitments and working capital needs. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Grant Harrod Lerman Davis LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of NUCLEUS COMMUNITY ACTION LTD earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £60,001 - £70,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

Who funds NUCLEUS COMMUNITY ACTION LTD?

Funders whose own accounts filings name NUCLEUS COMMUNITY ACTION LTD as a grant recipient include LONDON LEGAL SUPPORT TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
LONDON LEGAL SUPPORT TRUSTFY2024£120k
LONDON LEGAL SUPPORT TRUSTFY2023£41k
LONDON LEGAL SUPPORT TRUSTFY2021£10k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
City Bridge Foundation20/09/2023£166kGrant to Nucleus Community Action Ltd
A B Charitable Trust04/07/2023£25kA grant to Nucleus
A B Charitable Trust21/04/2022£20kA grant to Nucleus
City Bridge Foundation28/01/2015£150kGrant to Nucleus Community Action Ltd
The National Lottery Community Fund04/09/2008£493kAdvice Now Kensington and Chelsea

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 PALLION ACTION GROUP.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
NUCLEUS COMMUNITY ACTION LTD£1.2m£60,001 - £70,0001below—no doubt
PALLION ACTION GROUP FY2025£1.1m—0below—no doubt
THE NUCLEO PROJECT FY2025£831k—0unclear—no doubt
CITIZENS ADVICE LIVERPOOL LIMITED FY2025£4.3m—0within—no doubt
SCUNTHORPE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU FY2025£1.8m£60,001 - £70,0000unclear—no doubt
CARDIFF AND VALE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU FY2025£4.9m——above—no doubt

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