BACK ON TRACK MANCHESTER LTD

Registered charity 1017467 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as N E A R I S, NEARIS, NORTHERN EDUCATION AND RESETTLEMENT INFORMATION SERVICES LTD

We provide education, training, volunteering and associated support for excluded adults in Greater Manchester. Our services are aimed at adults who have been through some form of resettlement process related to substance misuse, homelessness, mental illnes, or offending behaviour. We also provide resources /training for other organisations in our field. (Formerly known as MERC and NEARIS.)

Objects

3. The objects of the company shall be to advance the education of disadvantaged members of society, and especially persons who are suffering or who have suffered a legal restriction on their liberty in any penal or correctional establishment or otherwise, and their families, in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) through the provision of educational, training and advisory services to said persons.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £50,783 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,411,922 and total expenditure of £1,361,139. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £319,084, which is above the stated target range of £230,000 to £280,000. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by McKellens Chartered Accountants. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Back on Track (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 3.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/07/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gillian Drakefordchair
• Amina Bodhania
• Dr Kevin Wong
• Hollie McKeith
• Judith Harrison
• Julie Taylor
• Lucy Hopwood
• Mike Devlin
• Olusayo Phillips
• Rachel Dyson
• Sarah Newton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tess Murphy

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

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale · Salford City · Stockport · Tameside · Trafford · Wigan

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BACK ON TRACK.

• BACK ON TRACK income £32k
• BACK ON TRACK HOUSING income £241k
• THE MOVEMENT CENTRE FOR TARGETED TRAINING income £395k
• KIDS ON TRACK income £185k
• CIRCLES NETWORK income £3.0m
• NO GOING BACK FOUNDATION income £381k

Side by side with its peers

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