FIVE TALENTS UK LTD

Registered charity 1113969 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Five Talents works with a network of community partners who provide savings schemes alongside literacy and business training for communities who have been marginalised around the world.

Objects

TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG PEOPLE LIVING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES BY PARTNERING WITH THE INDIGENOUS ANGLICAN CHURCHES AND OTHER PARTNERS TO OPERATE QUALITY MICRO-ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES, THROUGH PROVISION OF TRAINING AND CAPITAL GRANTS, AND OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES CONSISTENT WITH THIS OBJECTIVE.

Area of benefit: IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported record total incoming resources of £2,083,289 for the year ended 31 December 2025, an increase from £1,768,853 in the prior year. Total resources expended were £1,952,769, resulting in a net movement in funds of £130,520. The charity holds unrestricted funds of £444,869, which the trustees consider acceptable above their policy target of three to six months of operating costs to support growth and upcoming grant payments.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. 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 05641704

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Five Talents (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.

• CHUANG, Lisha — director, appointed 07/07/2025on trustee list
• ROSE, Nadine Claire — director, appointed 24/06/2025on trustee list
• KNIGHT-MAUNDER, Christine Claire — director, appointed 07/04/2025on trustee list
• PRESTON, Shannon Elizabeth — director, appointed 09/12/2024on trustee list
• BARTON, Andrew James — director, appointed 08/02/2022on trustee list
• PENNINGTON, Miriam — director, appointed 08/02/2022on trustee list
• ALSAFAR, Nowtash — director, appointed 08/02/2022on trustee list
• CETTI, Joanne Martine — director, appointed 07/12/2021on trustee list
• GRAY, Richard John Harrison — director, appointed 07/12/2021on trustee list
• JONES, Thomas Allan — director, appointed 11/02/2020on trustee list
• VAN DER PLOEG, Sijtske — director, appointed 20/03/2019not on trustee list
• LINDLEY, Rachel Elizabeth — secretary, appointed 01/01/2019

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 9.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew James Barton
• Christine Claire Knight-Maunder
• Eva Katharina Klute
• Joanne Martine Cetti
• Lisha Chuang
• Miriam Pennington
• Nadine Claire Rose
• Nowtash Alsafar
• Rev Shannon Preston
• Richard John Harrison Gray · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sijtske van der Ploeg
• Thomas Jones

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

Operates in: Bolivia · Burma · Burundi · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Kenya · Rwanda · South Sudan · Tanzania · Uganda

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FIVE TOWNS THEATRE.

• FIVE TOWNS THEATRE income £210k
• Five Trees Community Trust income £258k
• THE TALENT FUND income £2.2m
• FIVE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES TRUST LTD income £2.3m
• FUTURE TALENT MUSICIANS income £468k
• TALENT UNLIMITED LIMITED income £15k

Side by side with its peers

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