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.

Objects

A) AS AN EXPRESSION OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE AND FAITH, THE RELIEF OF PERSONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS AS A RESULT OF LOCAL, NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL DISASTER OR BY REASON OF HUNGER, DISEASE, SICKNESS OR THEIR SOCIAL AND/OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES; ANDB) THE PROMOTION AND SUPPORT OF SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND INSTITUTIONS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED BY THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHARITY ("THE DIRECTORS").

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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

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

Registered contact address: Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a planned deficit of £664,958 for the year, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £3,728,021. The trustees note that this reserve level exceeds their stated policy of maintaining six months of operating costs. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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 04670794
• Trading subsidiary: RESURGO CONSULTING LIMITED Companies House 07739554 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

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.

• BAYODE, Egerton Junior — director, appointed 02/12/2020on trustee list
• LONGTON, Carolyn — director, appointed 24/09/2019on trustee list
• READ, Clemmie — director, appointed 25/08/2016on trustee list
• SHIPPEY, Thomas Adam — director, appointed 03/12/2012on trustee list

Official officers record.

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 4.7 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 (5.3%) (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

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 SPEAR BRISTOL.

• SPEAR BRISTOL income £270k
• SPEAR ISLINGTON TRUST income £101k
• SPEAR BRIGHTON TRUST income £122k
• BOURNEMOUTH SPEAR TRUST income £114k
• SPEAR HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £4.6m
• INSPIRE PLUS income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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