ASPIRE OXFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE LIMITED
Registered charity 1117726 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
Aspire Oxfordshire is an employment charity and social enterprise that creates real work placements, training, employment and housing opportunities for people who face severe and multiple disadvantages such as homelessness, substance misuse and offending. Our charity is dedicated to transforming the life chances of local men and women who have survived adversity.
Causes: 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 ended the year with an unrestricted fund of £570,325, which is marginally below the mid-point of its reserves policy target range of £397,000 to £795,000. Per the trustees' report, the charity faces risks related to short-term funding cycles and uncertainty over public service funding, but maintains sufficient resources to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £570k; policy: between three and six months of the higher of projected gross unrestricted income and gross unrestricted expenditure for the next financial year, plus committed capital expenditure to be financed from own resources)
“the charity’s unrestricted general fund (excluding the unrestricted fixed asset reserve, see note 19b) of £558,500 was marginally below the mid-point of the range, but with the knowledge of needing to call on these reserves in the coming financial year.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Donations from trustees
“Donations amounting to £1,511 (2024: £1,373) were received from four trustees (2024: four) and grants totalling £16,000 (2024: £15,000) were received from a company or trust where a trustee holds a director or trustee role. These donations were received in the normal course of business.” — page 45
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Aspire Enterprise Services Limited
“The consolidated financial statements incorporate the financial statements of Aspire Oxfordshire Community Enterprise Limited (“Aspire”, the charity) and Aspire Enterprise Services Limited (“AESL”), the charity’s wholly-owned subsidiary” — page 26
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Gravita Audit Oxford LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Aspire (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Nicci Marzec — Chief Executive Officer (source)
- William Powlett Smith — 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.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£107k
Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 3.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Milton Keynes · Oxfordshire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is ASPIRE OXFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE LIMITED financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the year with an unrestricted fund of £570,325, which is marginally below the mid-point of its reserves policy target range of £397,000 to £795,000. Per the trustees' report, the charity faces risks related to short-term funding cycles and uncertainty over public service funding, but maintains sufficient resources to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Gravita Audit Oxford LLP.
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