SERVICE SIX

Registered charity 1132490 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Wide range of professional services for children, young people, adults, families and communities of Northamptonshire and surrounding areas. Services include therapy, support, projects, interventions, prevention and reduction of; anti-social behaviour; and online sexual abuse and exploitation. We also provide advocacy, information, campaigns, educational workshops, conferences and group work.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.7m
Latest spending
£1.6m
Registered
2009
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 1.3% to £1,682,557, while charitable expenditure grew by 5.4% to £1,616,927, resulting in a reduced surplus of £65,630. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £938,190, representing approximately ten months of operating costs, which is above the stated policy target of six months. The charity maintains a strong liquidity position with unrestricted general funds of £775,926 and no disclosed pension deficits or trading subsidiaries.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months of core running costs (held: £938k)
“It is the charity’s policy to maintain reserves equivalent to six months of core running costs.” — page 28
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Shaw Gibbs (Audit) Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Service Six (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

BuyerContractAwardedValue
NHS NORTHAMPTONSHIRE INTEGRATED CARE BOARDCore Counselling Services in Northamptonshire——

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income
£1.7m
Total spending
£1.6m
Reserves (reported)
£776k
Employees
28

Reported reserves equal ~5.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£1.7m£1.6m
31/03/2024£1.7m£1.5m
31/03/2023£1.6m£1.5m
31/03/2022£1.3m£1.2m
31/03/2021£826k£789k

Common questions

Is SERVICE SIX financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income increased by 1.3% to £1,682,557, while charitable expenditure grew by 5.4% to £1,616,927, resulting in a reduced surplus of £65,630. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £938,190, representing approximately ten months of operating costs, which is above the stated policy target of six months. The charity maintains a strong liquidity position with unrestricted general funds of £775,926 and no disclosed pension deficits or trading subsidiaries. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Shaw Gibbs (Audit) Limited.

Who funds SERVICE SIX?

Funders whose own accounts filings name SERVICE SIX as a grant recipient include NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONFY2024£6k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund21/12/2023£284kThe OPAL Project
The National Lottery Community Fund05/10/2020£13kBuilding Refurbishment
The National Lottery Community Fund24/03/2020£344kYouth Starz - Continuation
The National Lottery Community Fund20/03/2020£363kTARGET Continuation
The National Lottery Community Fund16/11/2016£401kTARGET
The National Lottery Community Fund10/08/2016£325kYouth Starz
The National Lottery Community Fund11/02/2013£310kYouth Starz
The National Lottery Community Fund28/09/2006£125kTo train,support&empower disadvantaged young people to train& support other

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SEXUAL ASSAULT AND ABUSE SUPPORT SERVICE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND MILTON KEYNES.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
SERVICE SIX£1.7m—0unclear—no doubt
SEXUAL ASSAULT AND ABUSE SUPPORT SERVICE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND MILTON KEYNES FY2025£600k—0unclear—no doubt
CHANGING FUTURES NORTH EAST FY2025£1.9m——unclear—no doubt
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE SEXUAL VIOLENCE SUPPORT SERVICES LTD FY2025£2.1m——above—no doubt
YOUTH WORKS NORTHAMPTONSHIRE FY2025£1.6m—0above—no doubt
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE CARERS FY2025£4.4m—1unclear—no doubt

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