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.

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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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Lambeth · Southwark · Wandsworth

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
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).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Sport England15/11/2012£10kSkillz
The National Lottery Community Fund12/07/2012£3kFST Olympic Summer

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with POSITIVE FUTURES NORTH LIVERPOOL LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
FUTURE SKILLS TRAINING£234k0aboveno doubt
POSITIVE FUTURES NORTH LIVERPOOL LIMITED FY2025£2.3m£100,001 - £110,0002belowno doubt
CHANGING FUTURES NORTH EAST FY2025£1.9munclearno doubt
FUTURE FY2025£268k0aboveno doubt
HOPE THROUGH ACTION FY2025£203k0unclearno doubt
GET FURTHER LTD FY2025£1.6mwithinno doubt

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