01 Identity
Registration and reporting
- Registration status
- Registered
- Reporting status
- Submission Received
- Charity type
- CIO
- Registered
- 13 April 2023
- Removed
- Not supplied
- Financial period
- 1 May 2025 – 30 April 2026
- Latest income
- £73,547
- Latest expenditure
- £43,584
- Gift Aid
- No
- Owns or uses land
- No
- In administration
- No
- Insolvent
- No
- CIO
- Yes
Public contact address: BLACKFRIARS SETTLEMENT, 1 Rushworth Street, LONDON, SE1 0RB
Website recorded by the regulator: www.platefulfcafe.co.uk (displayed as text)
02 Activities
What the charity does
Plateful Cafe empowers refugees to obtain mainstream employment in the catering industry by providing hospitality training and employment in a cafe.The cafe also runs a shop selling products made by local refugees and delivers monthly community dinners.Plateful Cafe also caters for outside events and offers private dining in people homes.Asylum-seekers volunteer at the cafe.
03 Official extract
Charity Annual Return History
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 May 2025
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 April 2026
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR26
- Reporting Due Date
- 28 February 2027
- Date Annual Return Received
- 29 August 2026
- Date Accounts Received
- 29 August 2026
- Total Gross Income
- £73,547
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £43,584
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 May 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 April 2025
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR25
- Reporting Due Date
- 28 February 2026
- Date Annual Return Received
- 3 October 2025
- Date Accounts Received
- 3 October 2025
- Total Gross Income
- £28,441
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £27,144
- Fin Period Start Date
- 13 April 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 April 2024
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Reporting Due Date
- 28 February 2025
- Date Annual Return Received
- 3 November 2024
- Date Accounts Received
- 3 November 2024
- Total Gross Income
- £68,983
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £45,374
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Charity Annual Return Parta
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- Yes
- Fin Period Order Number
- 1
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR26
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 May 2025
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 April 2026
- Ar Due Date
- 28 February 2027
- Ar Received Date
- 29 August 2026
- Total Gross Income
- £73,547
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £43,584
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- No
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- No
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- No
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Employees Salary Over 60k
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 60
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 2
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR25
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 May 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 April 2025
- Ar Due Date
- 28 February 2026
- Ar Received Date
- 3 October 2025
- Total Gross Income
- £28,441
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £27,144
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- No
- Count Govt Contracts
- 0
- Count Govt Grants
- £0
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- No
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- No
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Employees Salary Over 60k
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 65
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 3
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Fin Period Start Date
- 13 April 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 30 April 2024
- Ar Due Date
- 28 February 2025
- Ar Received Date
- 3 November 2024
- Total Gross Income
- £68,983
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £45,374
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- Yes
- Count Govt Contracts
- 0
- Count Govt Grants
- £0
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- No
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- No
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- Yes
- Employees Salary Over 60k
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 64
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Charity Area Of Operation
- Geographic Area Type
- Local Authority
- Geographic Area Description
- Lewisham
- Parent Geographic Area Type
- Metropolitan Counties
- Parent Geographic Area Description
- Greater London
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Local Authority
- Geographic Area Description
- Bromley
- Parent Geographic Area Type
- Metropolitan Counties
- Parent Geographic Area Description
- Greater London
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Local Authority
- Geographic Area Description
- Greenwich
- Parent Geographic Area Type
- Metropolitan Counties
- Parent Geographic Area Description
- Greater London
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Local Authority
- Geographic Area Description
- Southwark
- Parent Geographic Area Type
- Metropolitan Counties
- Parent Geographic Area Description
- Greater London
- Welsh Ind
- No
06 Official extract
Charity Classification
- Classification Code
- 306
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Provides Services
- Classification Code
- 101
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- General Charitable Purposes
- Classification Code
- 102
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Education/training
- Classification Code
- 307
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Classification Code
- 105
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Classification Code
- 104
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Disability
- Classification Code
- 115
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Classification Code
- 204
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
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Charity Event History
- Charity Name
- PLATEFUL CAFE
- Charity Event Order
- 2
- Event Type
- Asset transfer in
- Date Of Event
- 2026-02-13T00:00:00
- Reason
- Removed by application
- Assoc Organisation Number
- 5160859
- Assoc Registered Charity Number
- 1191147
- Assoc Charity Name
- REFUGEE CAFE
- Charity Name
- PLATEFUL CAFE
- Charity Event Order
- 1
- Event Type
- CIO registration
- Date Of Event
- 2023-04-13T00:00:00
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Charity Governing Document
- Governing Document Description
- CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 13 Apr 2023
- Charitable Objects
- THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1. TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY OF THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS AND GRANTED ASYLUM AND THEIR DEPENDENTS IN SOUTH EAST LONDON AND NEIGHBOURING BOROUGHS BY THE PROVISION OF VOCATIONAL SKILLS TRAINING, ADVICE AND SUPPORT TO ENABLE SUCH PEOPLE TO OBTAIN EMPLOYMENT;2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS, THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN GRANTED ASYLUM AND THOSE WHO ARE SEEKING ASYLUM IN SOUTH EAST LONDON AND NEIGHBOURING BOROUGHS SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND HELP THEM TO ADAPT WITHIN A NEW COMMUNITY;3. TO EDUCATE THE GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE RIGHTS AND NEEDS OF REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS; AND4. THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONG PEOPLE WHO ARE REFUGEES, THEIR DEPENDENTS OR SEEKING ASYLUM IN SOUTH EAST LONDON AND NEIGHBOURING BOROUGHS, AND WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POSITION BY OFFERING ACTIVITIES, TRAINING AND SUPPORT DIRECTED TO ENABLING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.
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Charity Policy
- Policy Name
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Policy Name
- Volunteer management
- Policy Name
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Complaints handling
- Policy Name
- Paying staff