THE TURKISH CYPRIOT CULTURAL ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 285799 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Assist the elderly, releif of poverty, sickness and distress and advancement of education amongst the Turkish Cypriot Community.

Objects

TO BENEFIT THE TURKISH CYPRIOT COMMUNITY IN LONDON WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCES TO THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY AND ITS NEIGHBOURING BOROUGHS BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONGST THE SAID COMMUNITY AND BY THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR SUCH MEMBERS OF THE SAID COMMUNITY WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: HACKNEY AND ITS NEIGHBOURING BOROUGHS

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £19,387 for the year ended 31 March 2024, resulting in a significant decline in net assets from £22,432 to £3,045. Sales revenue dropped sharply from £56,637 in 2023 to £16,823 in 2024, while total expenses remained relatively stable at £16,475. The filing is described as unaudited and compiled by accountants from the charity's own records.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 06/02/2026, 6 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2024 (received 10/04/2025, 69 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 07/05/2024, 97 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• TURKER CHAKICIchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ABDULLAH HALISDEMIR · trustee of 4 other charities
• ERDIL ATAMAN
• Halil Salih
• Mesut Hussein · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hackney

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TURKISH CYPRIOT WOMEN'S PROJECT.

• TURKISH CYPRIOT WOMEN'S PROJECT income £116k
• THE GREEK CYPRIOT COMMUNITY TRUST income £84k
• TURKISH CYPRIOT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £1.4m
• THE AUDIENCE AGENCY income £2.7m
• ANGLO ASIAN CULTURAL CENTRE income £27k
• TURKISH AND KURDISH CHILDREN'S GROUP income £25k

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