THE WINCHESTER PROJECT

Registered charity 1055059 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our mission is to help each child succeed, regardless of their circumstances, by giving them the opportunities and support they need. We are a small charity based in North London who works with children and young people aged zero to twenty five. We do this by working with families, running after school and youth clubs, supporting young adults and the local community.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £1,197,831 against total expenditure of £1,185,667, resulting in a net surplus of £12,164. The charity reports a sound financial position with free reserves of £280,000, which meets its stated policy target range of £240,000 to £280,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goodman Jones LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Winch (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jude Williams — Chair (source)
• Debbie Moss — Vice Chair (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• London Borough of Camden — “Core Funders London Borough of Camden” (source page)
• The Collaboration Circle — “Trusts & Foundations The Collaboration Circle” (source page)
• Greater London Authority — “Public Sector Funders Greater London Authority” (source page)
• Adobe — “Corporate Partners Adobe” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (61% 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: 8.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anaghaa Wagh · trustee of 1 other charity
• Benny Zachariah
• Christina Frost
• Deborah Rachel Moss
• Erin Brigid Stephens
• Judith Williams · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laurene Danon
• Susan Carole Bingham Godwin

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

Operates in: Camden

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 HOME-START WINCHESTER AND DISTRICTS.

• HOME-START WINCHESTER AND DISTRICTS income £152k
• WINCHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £14.2m
• WINCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION income £115k
• WINCHESTER HOSPICE FUNDRAISING CHARITY income £712k
• HOPE CHURCH WINCHESTER income £975k
• THE SPRINGFIELD PROJECT income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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