NORTH KENSINGTON LAW CENTRE

Registered charity 279699 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

North Kensington Law Centre provides a free and or subsidised independent specialist legal service to the community and promotes access to legal rights and equality of opportunity.

Objects

(I) TO RELIEVE POOR PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE BENEFIT AREA BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH LEGAL SERVICES WHICH THEY COULD NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN THROUGH LACK OF MEANS; (II) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AMONGST PERSONS RESIDENT OR WORKING IN THE BENEFIT AREA; (III) THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY FOR PERSONS RESIDET OR WORKING IN THE BENEFIT AREA.

Area of benefit: NORTH KENSINGTON

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £98,929 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £704,917 and total expenditure of £605,988. Unrestricted reserves stood at £664,266, which the trustees consider to be above their stated policy target of six to nine months' expenditure. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Berringers LLP. Discloses 5 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01480110 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — North Kensington Law Centre - NKLC (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• JOSEPH, Sheridan Leo — director, appointed 05/02/2025on trustee list
• ACLAND, Lucinda Mary — director, appointed 27/02/2023on trustee list
• DADDOU, Abbas — director, appointed 27/04/2022not on trustee list
• NAIL, Nadia — director, appointed 25/05/2021on trustee list
• HARTLEY, Mary Luisa — director, appointed 27/03/2019on trustee list
• ALKAFF, Christina — director, appointed 11/04/2018on trustee list
• KHAN, Zarif — director, appointed 08/04/2018on trustee list
• KIANGALA, Franck Michel — secretary, appointed 27/05/2026

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~13.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christina Alkaff
• Dadou Abbas
• Lucinda Mary Acland
• Nadia Nail
• Pat Healy
• Sheridan Leo Joseph
• Zarif Khan

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HARINGEY LAW CENTRE.

• HARINGEY LAW CENTRE income £842k
• BRISTOL LAW CENTRE income £1.5m
• NOTTINGHAM LAW CENTRE LIMITED income £830k
• MERSEYSIDE LAW CENTRE LIMITED income £525k
• ISLINGTON LAW CENTRE income £2.0m
• LUTON LAW CENTRE income £407k

Side by side with its peers

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