FUTURE SKILLS TRAINING

Registered charity 1119501 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To invest time in young people enabling them to re-engage with education and employment. We provide a mix of educational and support services to empower, care for and give hope to excluded and at risk young people from South London.

Objects

TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP AT RISK AND YOUNG VULNERABLE PEOPLE BY PROVIDING EDUCATION AND TRAINING WHICH DEVELOPS THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AND MATURE TO RESPONSIBLE ADULTS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE WANDSWORTH

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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Latest income

£234k

Latest spending

£247k

Registered

2007

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £12,989 for the year, primarily due to low referrals at the start of the year, but maintained unrestricted reserves of £49,560. Per the trustees' report, this reserve level is above their stated policy target of £38,000 (representing three months of basic operations), and the trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £50k)

“Future Skills Training's policy is to ensure that there are reserve funds available to run the basic operations of the charity for a minimum of three months. At the balance sheet date, the Trustees estimate this would require reserves of £38,000.” — page 11

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.

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
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
Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

George Berrychair
Elizabeth Broderick
Lai Wai Lea Lau
Luisa Antonella Migheli
Madeleine Mead-Herbert
Roger Brown
Simone Royal
Sophia Barker

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

Operates in: Lambeth · Southwark · Wandsworth

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£234k	£247k
31/08/2024	£279k	£261k
31/08/2023	£237k	£194k
31/08/2022	£132k	£147k
31/08/2021	£90k	£81k

Common questions

Is FUTURE SKILLS TRAINING financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £12,989 for the year, primarily due to low referrals at the start of the year, but maintained unrestricted reserves of £49,560. Per the trustees' report, this reserve level is above their stated policy target of £38,000 (representing three months of basic operations), and the trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
Sport England	15/11/2012	£10k	Skillz
The National Lottery Community Fund	12/07/2012	£3k	FST Olympic Summer
The National Lottery Community Fund	21/09/2007	£8k	Safer Sex in the City

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
AKO FOUNDATION	1	£1.3m
THE MOHN WESTLAKE FOUNDATION	1	£800k
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION	1	£706k
THE DULVERTON TRUST	1	£153k
THE STONE FAMILY FOUNDATION	1	£127k
THE BALLINGER CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£70k
THE REED FOUNDATION	1	£30k
THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATION	1	£25k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TEEN CRISIS UK.

TEEN CRISIS UK income £119k
POSITIVE FUTURES NORTH LIVERPOOL LIMITED income £2.3m
CHANGING FUTURES NORTH EAST income £1.9m
FUTURE income £268k
SHINE@NECHELLSPOD income £186k
HOPE THROUGH ACTION income £203k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
FUTURE SKILLS TRAINING	£234k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
TEEN CRISIS UK FY2025	£119k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
POSITIVE FUTURES NORTH LIVERPOOL LIMITED FY2025	£2.3m	£100,001 - £110,000	2	below	—	no doubt
CHANGING FUTURES NORTH EAST FY2025	£1.9m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
FUTURE FY2025	£268k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
SHINE@NECHELLSPOD FY2025	£186k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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