PRISON REFORM TRUST

Registered charity 1035525 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7245758 · Wikipedia · also known as P R T

For the public benefit to further and promote improvements in the penal system in the United Kingdom and the prevention of crime.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO FURTHER AND PROMOTE IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PENAL SYSTEM IN THE UK AND THE PREVENTION OF CRIME.

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.

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Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £229,040 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £1,636,261 to £1,407,221. However, the trustees report that liquid assets cover approximately eight months of operating costs, and free unrestricted reserves total £630,700. The auditor confirmed that there are no material uncertainties related to the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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 — Prison Reform Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nicholas Charles Stace OBEchair
• Dr Benjamin Crewe
• Dr Hindpal Bhui
• Emma Wilson
• Lord of Haslemere Harold Mark Carter
• Lorna Maden
• Louise Spencer
• Maya Foa
• Muhammad Maqsood Ahmed OBE
• Nigel Newcomen
• Osmond Junior Smart
• Rt.Hon. David Michael Gauke

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHRISTIAN PRISON RESOURCING.

• CHRISTIAN PRISON RESOURCING income £181k
• NEPACS income £2.3m
• PARTNERS OF PRISONERS AND FAMILIES SUPPORT GROUP income £2.1m
• SIR JOHN PERROT TRUST income £136k
• THE THEATRE IN PRISONS AND PROBATION CENTRE income £247k
• NARCONON TRUST income £179k

Side by side with its peers

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