MAKING THE LEAP

Registered charity 1058648 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEAP, LOCAL EMPLOYMENT ACCESS PROJECTS

MAKING THE LEAP IS A SOCIAL MOBILITY AND YOUTH CHARITY WHICH RUNS CAREERS EDUCATION PROGRAMMES FOR CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS ACROSS LONDON, AND DELIVERS SERVICES THAT PREPARES YOUNG ADULTS FOR LIFE-CHANGING CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN LONDON AND ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THOSE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO MAY BE UNEMPLOYED BY RELIEVING POVERTY AND DISTRESS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ADVICE INFORMATION TRAINING AND EDUCATION

Area of benefit: LONDON AND ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £411,833 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves from £1,721,299 to £1,356,266. The trustees note that free unrestricted reserves, excluding tangible fixed assets, decreased to £824,461, which is below the stated policy target of building up reserves of up to six months of operating costs. Despite the loss, the independent auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is 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 PEM Audit Limited. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 — Making The Leap (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Eugene Blavo — Deputy CEO (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £8k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (62% 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: 18.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sandra Bowker CBEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANDY BOUCHER
• Catherine Osaigbovo
• Dipi Kaur McKernan
• Dominic Scott
• Emma Canavan Jane
• James Alexander Hamilton Smith
• John Gary Williams
• Laurence Meehan

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 Coram Leap Confronting Conflict.

• Coram Leap Confronting Conflict income £1.2m
• MAKE A MOVE income £55k
• LEADERS IN COMMUNITY income £327k
• LEAP INTO HOPE income £39k
• MAKING SPACE income £34.2m
• MAKING MIRACLES income £301k

Side by side with its peers

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