THE ALBERT KENNEDY TRUST

Registered charity 1093815 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AKT · also registered in Scotland as SC050032 (OSCR)

We are the national LGBTQ youth homelessness charity; focused on prevention and early action we provide emergency accommodation and routes to safe homes, practical advice and mentoring, training, advocacy and support to young people who are homeless, at risk of homelessness or living in a hostile environment after coming out to their parents, care givers and peers.

Causes: Education/training · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a deficit of £233,192, significantly lower than the anticipated budget of £460,000, due to a £400,000 legacy received at the end of the financial year. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £1,148,495, which is above the stated policy target of £700,000, though the trustees note that planned deficits over the next two years will reduce reserves below this target.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by S&W Partners Audit Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — akt - the albert kennedy trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Adam Pemberton Wickham — CEO (source)
• Robert Malcomson — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Joanne McKenna — Director of Finance (source)
• Amy Heritage — Director of Marketing & Communications (source)
• Sheralee Lockhart — Director of People and Operations (source)
• Hayley Speed — Director of Services (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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 23.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/08/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Robert Malcomsonchair
• Amy Prendergast
• Bontle Senne
• Colin Douglas · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ed Tytherleigh
• Mark Robinson
• Sofia Haque
• Wayes Islam
• Yoni Ejo

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 3.13.

• 3.13 income £1.4m
• ACCESS COMMUNITY TRUST income £5.9m
• THE KITE TRUST income £667k
• KINGSTON CHURCHES ACTION ON HOMELESSNESS income £1.2m
• HERTS YOUNG HOMELESS GROUP income £2.0m
• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m

Side by side with its peers

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