Safe New Futures

Registered charity 1088357 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SAFE, SOUTHAMPTON ACTION FOR EMPLOYMENT

Safe New Futures aims to help people to regain a sense of control by making tangible choices that affect the quality of their personal and working lives,and the communities in which they live.We continue to focus on the most needy and hard to reach,seeking to give high impact interventions by delivering programs of training courses and personal coaching to groups of individuals.

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

Latest income

£348k

Latest spending

£313k

Registered

2001

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £34,949 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £348,427 and total expenditure of £313,478. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £70,420, while total net assets were £214,078, including a restricted endowment of £100,000 from the Edward Gostling Foundation.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Henry Smith Improving Lives Adult (86% of income)

“Henry Smith Improving Lives Adult - 75,000” — page 30

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: The charity owns 100% of the issued ordinary share capital of Choices Training and Development Limited... At the balance sheet date Safe New Futures was owed £123,170 (2024: £117,841) from Choices Training and Development Limited

“There have been no related party transactions other than those with the charitable company’s trading subsidiary as disclosed in note 16 and with Trustees as disclosed in note 4.” — page 36

“Two trustees were reimbursed £302 for expenses during this year (2024: none).” — page 31

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Two trustees were reimbursed £302 for expenses during this year

“There have been no related party transactions other than those with the charitable company’s trading subsidiary as disclosed in note 16 and with Trustees as disclosed in note 4.” — page 36

“Two trustees were reimbursed £302 for expenses during this year (2024: none).” — page 31

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Trading subsidiary: Choices Training and Development Limited

“The charity owns 100% of the issued ordinary share capital of Choices Training and Development Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales.” — page 36

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Alistair Stokes
Claudia Mihaela Murg
John Ivens Richards
Michael Colebourn
Miranda Laughton
Timothy Trew
kate Underwood

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Portsmouth City · Southampton City · Surrey

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£348k	£313k
31/03/2024	£387k	£285k
31/03/2023	£324k	£316k
31/03/2022	£305k	£308k
31/03/2021	£237k	£219k

Common questions

Is Safe New Futures financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £34,949 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £348,427 and total expenditure of £313,478. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £70,420, while total net assets were £214,078, including a restricted endowment of £100,000 from the Edward Gostling Foundation. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds Safe New Futures?

Funders whose own accounts filings name Safe New Futures as a grant recipient include THE EDWARD GOSTLING FOUNDATION, THE QUILTER FOUNDATION, THE THOMAS WALL TRUST, Alex Ferry Foundation, SIR JULES THORN CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE EDWARD GOSTLING FOUNDATION	FY2024	£100k
THE QUILTER FOUNDATION	FY2022	£26k	Employment
THE EDWARD GOSTLING FOUNDATION	FY2025	£25k	Grant
THE QUILTER FOUNDATION	FY2024	£24k	Employment
THE QUILTER FOUNDATION	FY2023	£24k	Employment
THE THOMAS WALL TRUST	FY2022	£5k
Alex Ferry Foundation	FY2024	£4k	Community Grants
SIR JULES THORN CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£4k	Ann Rylands Small Donations Programme
SIR JULES THORN CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£3k	Ann Rylands Small Donations

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	02/02/2024	£20k	Safe New Futures Youth Programme
The National Lottery Community Fund	17/06/2022	£10k	Youth New Futures
The National Lottery Community Fund	14/01/2022	£204k	Improving Mental Health for Vocational Outcomes in a post Covid world
The National Lottery Community Fund	05/02/2021	£10k	Online Youth Choices
The National Lottery Community Fund	30/05/2019	£10k	Positive Youth Choices
The National Lottery Community Fund	22/02/2019	£136k	Choices
The National Lottery Community Fund	25/11/2015	£10k	Inner City Choices
The National Lottery Community Fund	25/06/2014	£9k	Youth Choices
The National Lottery Community Fund	24/02/2011	£10k	RESTART
The National Lottery Community Fund	08/09/2010	£200k	Extending CHOICES
The National Lottery Community Fund	10/12/2008	£9k	Getting Communities to Work