SOCIAL BUSINESS TRUST

Registered charity 1136151 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SCALE-UP

The Social Business Trust is a partnership of world class businesses who share a common goal - to use their combined resources and experience to help accelerate the growth of ambitious social enterprises, increasing social impact and making sustainable positive change.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £477,827 at year-end, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £145k (equivalent to three months' core costs). The charity reported a net deficit for the year, with total cash income decreasing to £693k from £812k in the prior year, while total expenditure remained broadly stable at £7.24m.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Bain & Company and EY partner of Social Business Trust consultancy.uk · 17/12/2015
• The story of Social Business Trust pioneerspost.com · 07/10/2015

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 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 (100% 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: 1.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Larissa Joychair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Anne Drakeford
• Guy Davies · trustee of 2 other charities
• Harry Nicholson
• JAMES HADLEY
• Jan-Coos Geesink
• Madeleine Hale
• Michael Desmond Crossan · trustee of 1 other charity
• PAUL RICHARD ARMSTRONG
• SIMON MILTON

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Larissa Joy — trustee here and at THE CHARLES RUSSELL SPEECHLYS FOUNDATION

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Big Issue Trust.

• Big Issue Trust income £972k
• SOCIAL TECH TRUST income £244k
• THE S M B TRUST income £680k
• VALAN SOCIAL WELFARE TRUST income £759k
• SOCIAL INVESTMENT BUSINESS FOUNDATION income £188.5m
• NATWEST SOCIAL & COMMUNITY CAPITAL income £522k

Side by side with its peers

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