Kongolese Centre for Information and Advice

Analysis

Kongolese Centre for Information and Advice is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Great London. It was registered in January 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Kongolese Centre for Information and Advice reported income of £169k and spending of £166k, spending 98% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £99k to £169k (+70%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 47%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Kongolese Centre for Information and Advice sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 79th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Clothing Bank (£169k), The Silver Lady Fund Incorporating the All Night Travelling Cafe (£169k) and Iprovision the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (Cipr) Benevolent Fund (£169k).