GET SET GIRLS

Registered charity 1085966 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Get Set Girls is a youth group targeting Hackney disadvantaged BME girls aged 15 to 19 offering: courses for qualifications. Personal Development Workshops, Health programme, community volunteering. Heritage research project, Drama production, Career guidance, linking with employers, resulting in a 95% annual success rate of service users entering employment, and productive youth.

Objects

1) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH PROVISION BECAUSE OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE2) THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN3) THE PROMOTION OF ANY OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR IN ANY OTHER PART OF THE WORLD SUCH AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, PROVIDED ALWAYS THAT THEY ARE REGARDED AS CHARITABLE BY THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES

Area of benefit: UK AND WORLDWIDE

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net incoming resource of £45,765 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £870,618 against expenses of £824,853. The trustees report that the financial position is satisfactory, noting total reserves of £123,123, of which £24,961 are free reserves. The trustees confirm that these free reserves are in accordance with their policy to retain at least three months of staff costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BENJAMIN DUNNERchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ABRAHAM SCHECHTER · trustee of 2 other charities
• Leah Orzel · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Hackney · Haringey

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GETAWAY GIRLS.

• GETAWAY GIRLS income £365k
• THE GIRLS' NETWORK income £1.3m
• YOUNG WOMEN'S HUB LTD income £364k
• SWEATY BETTY FOUNDATION income £285k
• SISTER SYSTEM income £1.1m
• KEEPING OUR GIRLS SAFE income £155k

Side by side with its peers

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