FOOTPRINTS PROJECT LIMITED

Registered charity 1110916 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Footprints uses volunteers who we train as mentors to mentor and support ex-offenders leaving prison and returning to our area.

Objects

2.1 The Charity's objects are specifically restricted, in each case only for the public benefit, to benefit the local community by supporting the rehabilitation and relieving the needs of people who are, or have been, in prison, under supervision, on licence or under investigation by the police, those identified as at risk of offending, their families and also victims of crime, by such means as the Members may from time to time determine.2.2 Nothing in these Articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with any statutory provision regarding the meaning of the word "charitable" or the words "charitable purposes" in force in any part of the United Kingdom.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE. DORSET, SOMERSET, BOURNEMOUTH AND POOLE.

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

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Registered contact address: West Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£211k
Latest spending
£272k
Registered
2005
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £61,029 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets to £85,047. The trustees acknowledge that financial sustainability remains a main concern and that attracting adequate funding is vital for future success. However, they confirm that adequate resources exist for the continuance of the project and have prepared the accounts on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three to six months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £79k)
“The charity aims to ringfence three to six months’ employment and relevant running costs.” — page 26
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 40
  • Government income: £52,692 — grants £52,692 (5); 25% of the £210,529 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 20
  • Government income: £52,003 — grants £52,003 (4); 24% of the £219,617 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 20
  • Government income: £96,510 — grants £96,510 (5); 48% of the £199,383 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Hampshire · Poole · Portsmouth City · Southampton City

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£211k£272k
31/03/2024£220k£227k
31/03/2023£199k£258k
31/03/2022£178k£221k
31/03/2021£391k£254k

Common questions

Is FOOTPRINTS PROJECT LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £61,029 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets to £85,047. The trustees acknowledge that financial sustainability remains a main concern and that attracting adequate funding is vital for future success. However, they confirm that adequate resources exist for the continuance of the project and have prepared the accounts on a going concern basis. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds FOOTPRINTS PROJECT LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name FOOTPRINTS PROJECT LIMITED as a grant recipient include CO-OPERATIVE COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FOUNDATION, THE A B CHARITABLE TRUST, THE VALENTINE CHARITABLE TRUST, THE ALICE ELLEN COOPER-DEAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, THE GROCERS' CHARITY.

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund08/03/2024£19kGrow and Cook
A B Charitable Trust12/10/2023£20kA grant to The Footprints Project
UK government07/01/2019£9kTampon Tax Community Fund
UK government07/01/2019£10kTampon Tax Community Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund29/11/2018£10kLife Chances and Women Offenders
A B Charitable Trust31/10/2017£10kA grant to The Footprints Project
The National Lottery Community Fund20/01/2016£10kIncreasing Life Chances: A life, work and skills project designed and
The National Lottery Community Fund04/06/2014£9kImproving Life Chances: Reducing Re offending
The National Lottery Community Fund20/02/2007£10kFootprints
The National Lottery Community Fund06/01/2005£5kequipping offices

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

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FOOTPRINTS CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION CENTRE LTD.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
FOOTPRINTS PROJECT LIMITED£211k—0unclear—no doubt
FOOTPRINTS CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION CENTRE LTD FY2025£546k—0unclear—noted
THE FOOTPRINT TRUST LTD FY2026£309k—0above—no doubt
THE FOOTPRINTS FOUNDATION FY2025£94k—0above—no doubt
ONE FOOTSTEP FY2025£546k—0above—no doubt
FOOTPRINTS ANIMAL SANCTUARY CIO FY2025£84k——unclear—no doubt

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