IMPETUS - THE PRIVATE EQUITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1152262 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IMPETUS, IMPETUS - PEF

Impetus transforms the lives of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds by ensuring they get the right support to succeed in school, in work and in life.We find, fund and build the most promising charities working with these young people, providing core funding and working shoulder-to-shoulder with their leaders to help them become stronger organisations.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO ADVANCE ALL PURPOSES RECOGNISED AS CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFECTIVE USE OF RESOURCES FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group held total funds of £131.6m at the year end, a decrease from £158.6m the previous year, driven largely by the spend-down nature of the Youth Endowment Fund. The charity itself maintains unrestricted reserves of £7.4m, which the trustees describe as healthy, though free reserves are noted to be £0.7m after earmarking for conditional grants.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

In the news

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

• Venture philanthropy charities merge to become Impetus - The Private Equity Foundation thirdsector.co.uk · 05/07/2013

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Claire Tracey — Executive Assistant to the CEO (source)
• Cecilie Lehmann Gianneri — Director of Finance and Operations (source)
• Claire Leigh — Director of Public Affairs (source)
• Claudia R. Knights — Development Director (source)
• Daniel Barker — Development Director (source)
• Kerry Greaves — Director of Events (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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~30.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (70% 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: 6.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BILL BENJAMINchair
• Alexander Walsh
• Andrew Thoms
• Arnaud Emmanuel Frederic Bosquet
• Charles Edwards
• Christian Yannick Lucas
• Gabriele Cipparrone
• Lisa Harker
• Natasha Porter OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Satwinder Singh
• Shani Zindel
• Sumit Dheir
• Tristram Leach

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 IMPEX MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION.

• IMPEX MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION income £30k
• ESSEX YOUTH TRUST income £88k
• INSPIRE PLUS income £1.2m
• INTERMISSION YOUTH income £642k
• ENACTUS UK income £249k
• IMPACT FOUNDATION income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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