POWER2 LTD

Registered charity 1099782 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHILDREN: OUR ULTIMATE INVESTMENT (UK), POWER2, TEENS AND TODDLERS, TEENS AND TODDLERS TRADING AS POWER2 LTD

Power2 is a leading youth development charity. We believe there is no greater cost to society than unfulfilled potential. We support children and young people at key transition points to achieve their potential by developing crucial life skills, boosting confidence and improving self-esteem. Our two main programmes are the award-winning Teens & Toddlers programme and the Young Leaders programme.

Objects

TO FOSTER AND SUPPORT THE EDUCATION, HEALTH, OPPORTUNITY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tameside, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Power2 Ltd achieved a surplus of £35,226 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income of £2,382,536. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £306,459, which the Trustees consider adequate against their policy target of maintaining three to six months of normal operating expenditure. Financial sustainability is identified as the main risk due to competition for grants, though the charity has secured multi-year contracts with local authorities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 5 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04001308 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Power2 (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• MARKS, Anna Louise — director, appointed 19/05/2026on trustee list
• FRANCIES, Michael Shaul — director, appointed 04/06/2025on trustee list
• NORRIS, Lara — director, appointed 12/10/2024on trustee list
• HARTIG, Michael — director, appointed 12/10/2024on trustee list
• BOOK, Shazia Latif — director, appointed 12/10/2024on trustee list
• HENRIKSEN, Troels Bugge — director, appointed 20/09/2024on trustee list
• WELLS, Emily — director, appointed 20/09/2024on trustee list
• WILSON-THOMAS, Juliette — director, appointed 20/09/2024on trustee list
• LIVINGSTON, Lauren Elizabeth — director, appointed 13/06/2023on trustee list
• SHARIIF ALI, Amira — director, appointed 24/09/2021not on trustee list
• POTTER, James Victor Aylward — director, appointed 20/01/2021on trustee list
• GOGNA, Reena — director, appointed 01/06/2020on trustee list
• RANDLES, Julie — secretary, appointed 01/02/2020

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (61% 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: 8.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Francieschair
• Amira Shariif Ali
• Anna Marks
• Emily Wells
• James Victor Aylward Potter
• Juliette Wilson-Thomas
• Lara Norris
• Lauren Livingston
• Michael Hartig
• Reena Gogna · trustee of 2 other charities
• Shazia Latif Book
• Troels Henriksen · 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 PEER POWER YOUTH.

• PEER POWER YOUTH income £826k
• YOUTH LEADS UK income £472k
• POWER 2 CONNECT income £117k
• POWER UP income £57k
• THE BIDGLEY POWER FOUNDATION income £104k
• CHAPTER2 income £231k

Side by side with its peers

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