THE ACCESS PROJECT

Registered charity 1143011 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PROJECT ACCESS COMPANY

We help motivated students from disadvantaged backgrounds win places at top universities.

Causes: Education/training · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity closed the year with a moderate financial deficit of £194,987, an improvement on the previous year, despite raising £3.08 million in income. Total available funds decreased by 27% to £532,281, with unrestricted reserves falling to £403,062. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goodman Jones LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Access Project (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Anna Searle — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• John Kelly-Jones — Chair of the Board of Trustees (source)
• Wikus van der Merwe — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Sam Davies — Director, Fundraising and Communications (source)
• Emily Price — Director, Delivery (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).

• 29th May 1961 Charity — “Our current partners 29th May 1961 Charity” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/01/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Kelly-Joneschair
• Andrew David Burns
• Devyani Gupta
• Fatos Nacakgedigi
• Michael William Crowhurst
• Neil Andrew Miley
• Omar Subash Viroomal
• Patrick Timothy Moynihan
• Peter Denison-Pender
• Tahmid Chowdhury

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Nottinghamshire · Throughout London

Income and spending

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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 ACCESS ACCOUNTANCY.

• ACCESS ACCOUNTANCY income £128k
• THE CENTRE FOR TRANSFORMING ACCESS AND STUDENT OUTCOMES IN HIGHER EDUCATION income £1.8m
• THE ACCESS FOUNDATION income £561k
• ACCESS - THE FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL INVESTMENT income £12.5m
• RESPONSE COMMUNITY PROJECTS (EARLS COURT) LIMITED income £112k
• THE CAMBRIDGE UNION SOCIETY income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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