Governance

St Luke's Trust is a financially robust charity with a strong balance sheet and annual turnover of £2.0m+. Like many well-run charities, we generate income from a wide variety of sources including fundraising, service contracts, catering and room lettings.

Just over a third of our funding comes from our historic endowment entrusted to us by generous benefactors hundreds of years ago who. See history for more information.

Our Annual Report & Accounts are available to download as PDFs.

2019 Annual Report & Accounts

2018 Annual Report & Accounts

2017 Annual Report & Accounts

2016 Annual Report & Accounts

2015 Annual Report & Accounts

The full set of signed accounts and reports have been lodged with the Charity Commission. You can also obtain a set of accounts from the Charity Commission website.

Vision

The Board of Trustees considered the overall strategic direction of the Trust and agreed that the charity’s purpose was to help in sustaining and changing the neighbourhood to be:

A welcoming, living, neighbourly community in south Islington for all people to contribute to working, playing and learning together for their mutual benefit and well-being.

Mission

St Luke’s will achieve its vision through creating a better sense of community which is facilitated by:

Providing a community centre that is a hub for local people and organisations to work, play and learn in South Islington.
Providing and enabling services, activities and events that are delivered to a high standard and are open to all.
Providing a voice for, and on behalf of, the local area to ensure that services identified as required are provided to meet local needs.
St Luke’s is an organisation that will support everyone living locally and values the benefits of community cohesion. However, the focus of our charitable activities seeks to address the most pressing social needs in the area (including child poverty, unemployment, poor health, and isolation and poverty among older people) and particularly recognises those individuals and communities who suffer the greatest social inequality and exclusion.

St Luke's is an accredited London Living Wage organisation and pays all staff the London Living Wage across its Community Centre, Central Street Cafe and Central Street Cookery School.

For more information about St Luke's Trust's finance and business strategy, please contact the Executive Assistant on T: 020 7549 8185 or E: [email protected]

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Special offers on room hire until Spring 2021 (after November lockdown closure)

We understand the uncertainty of booking a room at this time. We have adapted our T&Cs so you can cancel with a full refund a week before your event. We are also offering a 50% discount through to spring 2021.
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About the centre

We own a large Community Centre on the edge of the City of London, a diverse area containing extremes of wealth and poverty. Our modern Community Centre provides a space for local people to gather and socialise, and for us and other organisations to deliver services and activities for the local community at little or no cost.
Garden Room

With its own private entrance and exclusive use of a terrace garden, this spacious and flexible room offers the perfect setting for conferences, seminars, training events and parties. It is a blank canvas to create the right setting and configuration for your event, and benefits from neutral, stylish décor and lots of natural light.
The Loft

The Loft occupies the whole third floor of the Community Centre, and has exclusive use of an entrance (ante) room, kitchen area and toilet, within this spacious and versatile area. It is bright and airy, and ideal for meetings, conferences, training, seminars or less formal events. Its exposed Victorian steel beams and skylight windows offer wonderful views over the roof tops of London.
What we do and who we help

We own a large Community Centre on the edge of the City of London, a diverse area containing extremes of wealth and poverty. Our modern Community Centre provides a space for local people to gather and socialise, and for us and other organisations to deliver services and activities to the local community at low or no cost to them. We also work outside in the community supporting other groups and running community events.
Studio

The Studio is a bright and exciting space for any occasion. Truly unique, this spacious room with its high ceilings and distinctive red walls will provide a striking backdrop to your conference or party. It includes a wall of mirrors with a professional barre for dance classes.
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Our people
About the Cookery School

Our stylish, contemporary Cookery School in central London opened in 2012 as a self-funding facility to enable St Luke’s to deliver free or low-cost cookery classes and projects to benefit our community, which are funded by the private hire of the School.