RESURGO TRUST

Registered charity 1100885 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPEAR / W6 YOUTHWORKS, THE ST PAUL'S CENTRE

Spear (an operating name of Resurgo) is one of the UK's most effective youth employment charities. Our vision is for every young person in the UK, regardless of their background, to fulfil their unique potential and contribute to society.The award-winning Spear Programme offers young people professionally recognised coaching, for free, to support them into sustainable work or education.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a planned deficit of £664,958, deploying reserves to fund growth projects. Per the trustees' report, free reserves decreased to £2,350,199, which the trustees calculated as 7.7 months of operating expenditure, noting this remains above their stated minimum policy of six months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Pete Bacon — Deputy CEO, Director of Programmes and Impact (source)
• Rosie Evans — Director of Strategy (source)
• Sophie Burrows — Director of People, Culture and Operations (source)
• Emma Barnes — Director of Fundraising and Communications (source)
• Revd Tom Jackson MBE — Chair (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% 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: 15.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/11/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Thomas Charles Jacksonchair
• Carolyn Longton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Clemmie Read
• Egerton Junior Bayode
• THOMAS SHIPPEY

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

Operates in: Caerphilly · Cardiff · Rhondda Cynon Taff · Throughout England

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 SPEAR HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITED.

• SPEAR HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £4.6m
• SPEAR ISLINGTON TRUST income £101k
• SPURGEONS income £12.6m
• SPEAKERS TRUST LIMITED income £1.5m
• THE SPIRES CENTRE income £802k
• THE SPARROW SCHOOLS FOUNDATION income £121k

Side by side with its peers

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