Skip to content
Governance Register

Registered charity · London

Polish Social and Cultural Association

Polish Social and Cultural Association is a registered charity (number 236745) based in London, governed by 8 trustees. Latest income £1.6m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as P O S K - Polski Osrodek Spoleczno-Kulturalny, Polski Osrodek Spoleczno Kulturalny, Posk (Charity Commission)

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2024)

The people who lead this organisation are listed below. Create a free account to save it, get alerts and check how you are connected.

Official record Charity Commission · updated 18th October 2026 · Sources · Free, no card or password

Network

The large node is Polish Social and Cultural Association. Red nodes are organisations, white nodes are people. Dashed links are historical or inferred. Click any node to explore.

Who leads it

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

Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works

Similar charities are matched by type of organisation or purpose and listed by latest income; shared trustees are formal board links. Neither is proof the organisations work together.

About

What it does
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout London
Website
www.posk.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Polish Social and Cultural Association
Registered
1965

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.6m£1.7m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.9m
  • 2022£1.3m£1.2m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.1m£783k
  • 2020£1.2m£887k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 12%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE ASSOCIATION IS ESTABLISHED ARE:(A) TO PROMOTE AND FURTHER EDUCATION AND LEARNING IN THE RESPECTIVE HISTORIES, ARTS, LITERATURES,LANGUAGES AND CULTURES OF POLAND AND OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND GENERALLY TO PROPAGATEEDUCATION, AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING OBJECTS TO CARRY OUT THESAME WITH A VIEW, IN PARTICULAR, TO ADVANCING, DEVELOPING AND ENCOURAGING A GREATER MUTUALUNDERSTANDING AND A GREATER DEGREE OF INTELLECTUAL CO-OPERATION AND CULTURAL INTERCOURSEBETWEEN PERSONS WHO ARE EITHER WHOLLY OR IN PART OF POLISH EXTRACTION, ORIGIN OR DESCENT ANDWHO ALSO ARE OR SHALL AT ANY TIME HAVE BEEN EITHER PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILY RESIDENT WITHINTHE UNITED KINGDOM (WHICH PERSONS ARE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS “POLES”) ON THE ONE HANDAND THE OTHER PEOPLE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ON THE OTHER HAND.(B) TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE, SPONSOR, ENCOURAGE, ASSIST IN, FURTHER AND DEVELOP EDUCATION, TRAININGAND LEARNING IN EVERY FIELD OF ART, SCIENCE, LITERATURE, CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, TECHNOLOGY,MECHANICS, VOCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES AND OTHER SUBJECTS AND IN PARTICULAR THEEDUCATION AND TRAINING OF AND LEARNING AMONGST POLES.

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.

1.6y median 2y
average tenure
2y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
8.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 8Education/training 8

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

Education 7Construction 1Other services 1

Gaps to watch

  • 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.

🔒 Succession forecast is a Pro feature - the board seats likely to open in the next year and the ideal next trustee. Explore Pro →

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.6m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

71.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 120.0 in 2020

20 from 25 in 2020
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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
236745
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 19TH AUGUST 1964 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS ON THE 20TH JULY 1965, 5TH JULY 1966 AND THE 15TH APRIL 1971AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18 MAY 2019AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 08 JUN 2019 as amended on 14 Aug 2018
Companies House
Company number 00816310 · Active
Contact on the register
02087426411 · admin@posk.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data