Friends of Kensington Day Centre

Analysis

Friends of Kensington Day Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in September 1966, 60 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 00873067). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Friends of Kensington Day Centre reported income of £13k and spending of £26k, spending 202% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £1,274 to £13k (+932%), an average of +79% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 241%. Over the whole period it spent 218% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Friends of Kensington Day Centre sits at the 48th percentile: it is larger than about 48% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Friends of Arundel Museum (£13k), The Sylvan Charitable Trust (£13k) and Care Venezuela (£13k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.