NO LIMITS (SOUTH)

Registered charity 1088835 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NO LIMITS (SOUTHAMPTON), NO LIMITS SOUTH

No Limits was established in 1993. It offers information, advice, advocacy, counselling & support to children & young adults up to 26 in Southampton, Hampshire and Portsmouth. It is a high quality, innovative & award winning service delivered through a drop-in centre, outreach centres and specialist projects which reach out to young people. We seek to help young people help themselves

Objects

TO HELP RELIEVE AND PREVENT SUFFERING CAUSED BY MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILL-HEALTH, OR BY SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, AMONGST YOUNG PEOPLE ACROSS SOUTHAMPTON, PORTSMOUTH, HAMPSHIRE, THE ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SURROUNDING AREAS, BY ESTABLISHING, MAINTAINING AND DEVELOPING INFORMATION, ADVICE, COUNSELLING AND OTHER SUPPORTIVE SERVICES OR SETTINGS.

Area of benefit: SOUTHAMPTON, PORTSMOUTH, HAMPSHIRE, THE ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southampton, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a small surplus for the year, with total income rising by 10.7% to £4.69 million. Free/unrestricted reserves are held at £1.5 million, which the trustees note amounts to 5.5 months of unrestricted expenditure, exceeding their policy target of 4-6 months. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern 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 Fiander ETL. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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 — No Limits (matched by registered charity number).

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £768k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (70% 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: 2.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gavin Berginchair
• Andrew Simpson
• Chiara Wall
• Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti
• Heather Wood
• Mark Dichlian
• Nigel Dibben
• Nigel Reichelt
• Stephen Taylor

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

Operates in: Dorset · Hampshire · Isle Of Wight · Portsmouth City · Southampton City

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 MAKING A DIFFERENCE.

• MAKING A DIFFERENCE income £30k
• SOUTH LONDON COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT SERVICES income £216k
• QUALITY STUDIES income £303k
• REFOCUS PROJECT LTD income £240k
• BREAKOUT YOUTH income £313k
• NO.5 YOUNG PEOPLE income £581k

Side by side with its peers

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