THE MENTOR RING

Registered charity 1149605 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TMR

The Mentor Ring delivers a variety of mentoring projects, bespoke mentoring, peer mentoring and befriending services to individuals of all ages, backgrounds and ethnicities, in the areas of Education, Employment, Health and Community Cohesion events, helping to overcome significant social and cultural barriers in Wales, London Borough of Bexley and Kent.

Objects

To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by working with people who are socially excluded on the grounds of their ethnic and cultural background, poverty, geographic isolation and health issues to relieve the needs of such people and assist them to integrate into society, in particular by the provision of mentoring, education and training.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cardiff, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £7,229 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £35,961 to £28,732. The trustees maintain a reserves policy equivalent to six months' operational expenditure, with unrestricted funds held at £33,377. The independent examiner confirmed that proper accounting records were kept and the accounts comply with applicable regulations.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07472750

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.

• NEWTON, John Kenneth — director, appointed 28/08/2024on trustee list
• PONNADA, Rajani Devi — director, appointed 03/08/2023on trustee list
• GAMBLIN, John Philip — director, appointed 26/08/2020on trustee list
• PULAPAKA, Sunil, Dr — director, appointed 14/05/2020on trustee list
• RANGOONWALA, Yusuf — director, appointed 09/12/2015on trustee list
• THALADI, Sujatha — secretary, appointed 29/12/2010

Official officers record.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• John Kenneth Newtonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Chetna Sinha · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr Sunil Pulapaka · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Tania Ghafari · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Yusuf Rangoonwala
• John Gamblin

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MENTOR LINK.

• MENTOR LINK income £207k
• MENTOR WISE income £325k
• CHAPTER2 income £231k
• MENTORING PLUS BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET income £770k
• THE MINSTER CENTRE income £2.0m
• CREATIVE MENTOR NETWORK income £404k

Side by side with its peers

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