ENVIRONMENTAL VISION

Registered charity 1095328 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ENVISION

Envision develops young people's employability by empowering them to tackle real-life social problems.Our main programme is the inter-school competition Community-apprentice which requires young people, primarily from disadvantaged backgrounds, to develop and demonstrate personal qualities whilst working in teams to manage their own community projects.

Objects

TO PROMOTE CITIZENSHIP AMONGST YOUNG PEOPLE BY ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES WHICH ADVANCE THE PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS; PROVIDE POSITIVE ACTIVITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND COMMUNITY COHESION; ADVANCE THE VOLUNTEERING AGENDA AND RECOGNISING AND SHARING EXCELLENCE IN VOLUNTEERING TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC, IN MATTERS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL JUSTICE TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS TO PROVIDE TRAINING, CONSULTANCY AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES TO OTHER AGENCIES WORKING TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS, IN PARTICULAR THOSE FROM SOCIALLY OR ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE UK.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net accounting deficit of £238,634 for the year, primarily due to the timing of income recognition for future programme delivery. Despite this, the charity maintained a strong unrestricted reserves position of £664,886, representing 5.4 months' cover against its policy target of three months. The trustees and auditors confirmed the accounts were prepared on a going concern basis 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 Godfrey Wilson 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04422128

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Envision (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• #iwill — “Strengthening Youth-Led Social Action with #iwill Funding” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• CAINES-POWELL, Simone — director, appointed 11/03/2026on trustee list
• JAKAR, Amy — director, appointed 09/10/2025on trustee list
• THEEN, Sophie Suk Yi — director, appointed 12/06/2025on trustee list
• GRIFFITHS, Andrew Peter — director, appointed 12/06/2025on trustee list
• RICHARDS, Daniel Stuart — director, appointed 13/03/2025on trustee list
• RICHARDS, Latesha Precious — director, appointed 05/12/2024not on trustee list
• VYAS, Joy — director, appointed 13/06/2024on trustee list
• SHANAGHER, Timothy — director, appointed 14/03/2023on trustee list
• HALIGAH, Josephine — director, appointed 17/03/2022on trustee list
• YARROW, Saima — director, appointed 24/09/2020on trustee list
• HOBKINSON, Benjamin George — director, appointed 24/09/2020on trustee list
• LOCK, Joanna — secretary, appointed 12/11/2024

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (65% 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: 13.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Timothy Shanagherchair
• Amy Jakar
• Andrew Peter Griffiths
• Benjamin George Hobkinson
• Daniel Stuart Richards
• Josephine Haligah
• Joy Vyas
• Latesha-Precious Richards
• Saima Yarrow
• Simone Caines-Powell
• Sophie Theen · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VISION25.

• VISION25 income £942k
• VISION YOUTH AND COMMUNITY income £43k
• WMVS CHILDREN IN CARE FOUNDATION income £233k
• WORLD VISION UK income £66.1m
• EDUCATION FOR LIFE income £256k
• VISION CHURCH LTD income £130k

Side by side with its peers

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