Urban Promise UK

Registered charity 1130398 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE MESSAGE WORKS TRUST

Providing out of school activities and care for children and teens within their local community, including career development, educational support, holistic well being and personal and spiritual mentoring.

Objects

The Charity’s objects (“The Objects”) are to support the education and development of children and young people personally, spiritually, and academically, to prevent or relieve poverty of children, young people and their families and advance the Christian Faith within the United Kingdom primarily through the provision of after school and holiday activities.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD

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 · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£129k

Latest spending

£117k

Registered

2009

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £12,439 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £129,258 against expenditure of £116,820. Free reserves stood at £26,076, which the trustees consider sufficient against their policy target of one to three months' operating costs. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue providing services.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: one to three months of operating costs (held: £26k)

“holding reserves of a minimum of one month's operating costs and a maximum of three month's operating costs is currently sufficient.” — page 10

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Payments to trustees: Kelly Maxted and Luke Maxted received salaries of £28,000 each.

“Kelly and Luke Maxted, both trustees and directors, were employed for the year (from 16 May 2023), each receiving a salary of £28,000 for the year (2024 - £24,500).” — page 19

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Kelly Maxted and Luke Maxted, who are trustees and directors, received salaries.

“Kelly and Luke Maxted, both trustees and directors, were employed for the year (from 16 May 2023), each receiving a salary of £28,000 for the year (2024 - £24,500).” — page 19

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Governance: The document states trustees had to step back for personal reasons, including ill health, affecting the consistency of formal meetings, and they are seeking new trustees for secretary and treasurer roles.

“This year some of our trustees had to step back for personal reasons, including ill health, two of those being the trustees that took the role of secretary and treasurer. This has affected the consistency of our formal meetings however we have used the allowance for electronic meetings in our governing document to ensure that we meet our statutory obligations.” — page 5

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
Campaigns and political activity 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
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 06919107

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Urban Promise UK (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.

CLARK, Stephen Colin — director, appointed 18/06/2025on trustee list
MIREKU, Stephen — director, appointed 19/06/2024on trustee list
LACEY, Kathrine, Dr — director, appointed 19/06/2024not on trustee list
DU FEU, Andrew Mark — director, appointed 01/11/2022not on trustee list
NIELSEN DONNELLY, Kirsten Lee — director, appointed 27/09/2022not on trustee list
MAXTED, Kelly — director, appointed 12/08/2021on trustee list
MAXTED, Luke Nathaniel Paul — director, appointed 11/09/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Andrew Mark du Feu
Dr Kathrine Lacy
Kelly Maxted
Kristen Nielsen Donnelly
Luke Nathaniel Paul Maxted
Stephen Colin Clark
Stephen Mireku

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£129k	£117k
31/03/2024	£73k	£79k
31/03/2023	£69k	£59k
31/03/2022	£7k	£1k
31/03/2021	£2k	£820

Common questions

Is Urban Promise UK financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £12,439 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £129,258 against expenditure of £116,820. Free reserves stood at £26,076, which the trustees consider sufficient against their policy target of one to three months' operating costs. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue providing services. 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
The National Lottery Community Fund	04/09/2025	£20k	Urban Promise After School Club

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
BENEFACT TRUST LIMITED	1	£500k
CLARA E BURGESS CHARITY	1	£236k
MONTPELIER FOUNDATION LIMITED	1	£235k
THE COTTON INDUSTRY WAR MEMORIAL TRUST	1	£225k
The Merchant Taylors' Foundation	1	£199k
THE MARY KINROSS CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£140k
THE ALBERT GUBAY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£98k
THE JOHN BOOTH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£62k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PROMISE DREAMS.

PROMISE DREAMS income £237k
URBAN OUTREACH (BOLTON) income £1.1m
AFRICAN PROMISE income £39k
DEPAUL UK income £25.3m
PATCHWORK PROJECT income £263k
URBAN KEY LONDON income £263k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
Urban Promise UK	£129k	—	0	within	—	no doubt
PROMISE DREAMS FY2024	£237k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
URBAN OUTREACH (BOLTON) FY2025	£1.1m	—	0	within	—	no doubt
AFRICAN PROMISE FY2025	£39k	—	0	unclear	—	noted
DEPAUL UK FY2024	£25.3m	£90,001 - £100,000	—	below	27.0%	no doubt
PATCHWORK PROJECT FY2025	£263k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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