ONE WESTMINSTER

Registered charity 295501 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VOLUNTEER CENTRE WESTMINSTER

One Westminster was formed on 1 April 2014 by the merger of Volunteer Centre Westminster and Voluntary Action Westminster. Its mission is to transorm peoples lives through volunteering and voluntary sector support. It provides a range of volunteer brokerage, training and front line community services as well as a diverse range of support services for charities and community groups in Westminster.

Objects

TO UNDERTAKE AND ARRANGE VOLUNTARY WORK IN EDUCATION, SOCIAL SERVICES AND SIMILAR CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES, AMONGST THOSE PERSONS IN NEED THEREOF AND FOR THIS PURPOSE BUT NOT OTHERWISE THE BUREAU SHALL HAVE THE POWERS HEREIN CONTAINED. (FOR DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION).

Area of benefit: CITY OF WESTMINSTER

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 · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a financial loss for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total expenditure exceeding total income. Despite this deficit, the charity held unrestricted reserves of £231,386, although the trustees note that these free reserves are currently in deficit relative to their stated policy target of three months' future expenditure. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gravita Audit Oxford 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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 05/02/2024, 5 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 01/02/2023, 1 day after the 31/01/2023 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02052268 · Financial health read from its filings

What the charity says about itself (2023-2024)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• MATTHEW AYRES — Chair (source)
• MATTHEW HAZELL — Treasurer (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.

• BOTHA, Corinne — director, appointed 05/10/2023on trustee list
• LAKHDAR, Nawal — director, appointed 17/11/2022on trustee list
• O'DONOGHUE, Kim Susan — director, appointed 08/09/2021on trustee list
• FRITZ, Eva Karin Aurora — director, appointed 08/04/2021on trustee list
• FUDLALLA, Phayza — director, appointed 06/02/2019on trustee list
• HAZELL, Matthew — director, appointed 14/11/2018on trustee list
• AYRES, Matthew John — director, appointed 01/06/2016on trustee list
• ANNIS, Susan Magna — director, appointed 01/06/2016not on trustee list
• ROSENBERG, Jackie — secretary, appointed 01/09/2015

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Matthew Ayreschair
• Corinne Botha
• EDMOND YEO · trustee of 4 other charities
• Eva Fritz
• Kim O'Donoghue
• Matthew Hazell
• Mohamed Elnaiem
• Nawal Lakhdar
• Phayza Fudlalla · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sue Annis

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 ONE KNOWSLEY.

• ONE KNOWSLEY income £1.9m
• CITY OF WESTMINSTER CHARITABLE TRUST income £230k
• WESTMINSTER ARTS income £200k
• UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER STUDENTS' UNION income £4.8m
• ONE COMMUNITY EASTLEIGH income £952k
• WESTMINSTER CHAPEL income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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