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Registered charity 1016182 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EMPLOY-ABILITY

To support people across West and South Essex who are experiencing mental ill health into employment and assist those in employment to retain their jobs

Objects

TO RELIEVE NEED AMONG AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF DISABLED PEOPLE BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING ENABLING SUCH PEOPLE TO ACQUIRE SKILLS THE POSSESSION OF WHICH WILL ASSIST THEM TO OBTAIN EMPLOYMENT OR OTHERWISE BECOME SELF-SUPPORTING

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £122,576, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of 3 to 6 months of estimated annual expenditure. The charity reported a net income surplus of £154,550 for the year, with total funds carried forward reaching £1,027,315.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mayor, Cuttle & Co. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02772286

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Employ-Ability (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Darren Connew — Head of Service (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SMITH, Paul Matthew — director, appointed 25/03/2026on trustee list
• DAY, Kenneth — director, appointed 19/10/2022on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Philip — director, appointed 08/12/2021on trustee list
• PAGE, Timothy James — director, appointed 24/07/2018on trustee list
• SALMON, Debra Susan — director, appointed 20/02/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Debra Salmon
• Kenneth Day
• Paul Smith
• Philip Edwards
• Timothy Page

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Coventry, Warwickshire & Worcestershire Mind.

• Coventry, Warwickshire & Worcestershire Mind income £11.6m
• MIND IN WEST ESSEX income £3.2m
• BASILDON MIND income £552k
• HAVANT AND EAST HANTS MIND income £2.3m
• BIRMINGHAM INDUSTRIAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £1.4m
• ISLINGTON MIND income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.