The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into a charity which failed to complete an action plan including steps to remove materials from its premises that appeared to support a “proscribed terrorist group”.

The Commission launched an investigation into the Kurdish Community Centre, which operates in London with purposes to advance education, health and relief of poverty of people from the Kurdish community, including refugees and asylum seekers, after it did not “fully implement” an action plan it was set in August 2013 by the regulator.

The action plan included steps for the charity to introduce robust controls to manage the charity’s activities and use of its premises, and to “ensure material which might suggest they appeared to support a proscribed terrorist group was removed from the charity’s premises”.

The inquiry was opened in February 2015, and on 20 March the Commission exercised legal powers to direct the trustees to implement the action plan and take further steps in the interests of the charity.

The charity, which had an income of £104,000 in 2014, is overdue on its last two years of accounts. Its website also appears to have been shut down.

The investigation will examine issues and establish the facts so that “the regulator can ascertain whether there has been misconduct or mismanagement”. It will also establish the extent of the risk to the charity’s property, beneficiaries or work, and decide what action needs to be taken to resolve the serious concerns.

The charity has not yet responded to an invitation to comment.