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Venture Community Association

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £755k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training
Where
Kensington And Chelsea
Website
www.venturecentre.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Venture Community Association
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£755k£850k
  • 2024£893k£826k
  • 2023£785k£927k
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.0m£955k
  • 2021£901k£709k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 47% · Government grants 18%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF NORTH KENSINGTON AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THE AREA OF BENEFIT") WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND INHABITANTS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO RELIEVE POVERTY, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE - OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS2) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF PLAY AND OTHER FACILITIES (INCLUDING PLAY FACILITIES) TO HELP AND EDUCATE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 21 YEARS WHO ARE RESIDENT OR ATTEND SCHOOLS IN THE NORTH KENSINGTON DISTRICT OF THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY

Grants received

24 grants · £729,511 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

6 trustees on the board

7y median 8.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

6
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 6General Charitable Purposes 6

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 6Property 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£755k latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.3 in 2021

19 from 16 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
64%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1073115
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 14TH OCTOBER 1987
Companies House
Company number 02178614 · Active
Contact on the register
02089603234 · william@venturecentre.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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