VOLUNTEER CENTRE HACKNEY
Company number 03357999 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Volunteer Centre Hackney is a small, community‑trusted volunteer hub with a solid financial base but faces existential pressure from digital platforms and funding uncertainty. Its strategic imperative is to digitise its matching capability, diversify revenue through corporate partnerships, and file overdue accounts to rebuild stakeholder confidence. Without these moves, it risks becoming a marginalised local service rather than an integral community asset.
Shareholders' funds
£89,342
Balance sheet as at 2021-03-31
Overview
- Company type
- PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
- Incorporated
- 1997-04-22
- Employees
- 12 (2021 accounts · was 7 in 2020)
- Registered office
- 12-13 Springfield House, Tyssen Street, London, E8 2LY
- Postcode
- E8 2LY
- Accounts category
- Small
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-03-31
- Next due by
- 2026-12-31
- Financial year end
- 31 March
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-04-22
- Next due by
- 2027-05-06
Nature of business (SIC)
- 94990 Activities of other membership organizations not elsewhere classified
Officers 4 current · 72 resigned
Registered charity
VOLUNTEER CENTRE HACKNEY — charity number 1068104
Source: Charity Commission for England and Wales, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA378092 (Tier 1), registered since 2018.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| HACKNEY AGENCY FOR VOLUNTEERING | 2010-02-03 |
| SEEKSTART LIMITED | 1997-07-23 |
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| 92 DALSTON LANE, HACKNEY, LONDON, E8 1NG | 2010-04-15 |
| 92 DALSTON LANE, HACKNEY, LONDON, E8 1NG | 1998-06-24 |
| 1 MITCHELL LANE, BRISTOL, BS1 6BU | 1997-07-27 |
Among its peers
Top 25%
by shareholders' funds, of 182 similar companies in E
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (12 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1997.
Competitors London
This company ranks 24 among activities of other membership organizations not elsewhere classified in London.
The class of 1997
65%
of the 214 companies in this sector incorporated in 1997 are still active today; 35% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2020-06-03
- Where
- Greater London
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGL509042 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2020-06-03 | — |
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