A WAY OUT

Registered charity 1137535 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

A WAY OUT AIMS TO EDUCATE, SUPPORT AND EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITY'S MOST VULNERABLE AND AT-RISK WOMEN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES TO LIVE HEALTHY, SAFE & WHOLE LIVES, FREE FROM POVERTY, ADDICTION & HARM. OUR WORK SPANS OUTREACH, DRUGS PREVENTION & ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAMMES, REHABILITATION & INTENSIVE LIFE SUPPORT.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves stood at £270,621, which is above the trustees' minimum target of £170,000. The charity reported a net income surplus of £34,827 for the year ended 30 September 2025. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mullen Stoker Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — A WAY OUT (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Kay — CEO (source)
• Sue — Head of Services Unity (source)
• Jane — Head of Services Horizon (source)
• David — Business Development (source)
• Georgina — Business Development (source)
• Franca — Head of Psychological Services (source)
• Emily — Services Manager - Horizon (source)
• Charlotte — Services Manager - Unity (source)

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Ballinger Charitable Trust — “Current funders Ballinger Charitable Trust” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below 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: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/06/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Hassan Al-Bahrani
• Julie Allan
• Karen Parker
• Michelle Carr
• Phaedra Andrew
• Robert Martin Thompson

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

Operates in: Hartlepool · Middlesbrough · Redcar And Cleveland · Stockton-on-tees

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LIVINGWAY MINISTRIES.

• LIVINGWAY MINISTRIES income £158k
• GATE WAY TRUST income £480k
• Waythrough income £165.2m
• OUTWARD HOUSING income £21.4m
• THE WAYZ income £169k
• ADAM OUTREACH PROJECT income £558k

Side by side with its peers

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