CITY OF ESCAPE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1155253 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

promote the education (including social and physical) of young people from the ages of 7 to 25 in Londondeveloping their mental, physical and moral capabilities to enable them to participate as mature and responsible individuals in society.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL) OF YOUNG PEOPLE FROM THE AGES OF 7 TO 25 IN LONDON IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING DEVELOPING THEIR MENTAL, PHYSICAL AND MORAL CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS IN SOCIETY.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £45,836 for the year ended 31 July 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £55,241. The trustees report that the charity continues to provide mental health support and community outreach despite economic challenges, with no material uncertainties affecting its 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 independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 5 were received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2025 (received 16/06/2026, 16 days after the 31/05/2026 due date); year ending 31/07/2024 (received 19/02/2026, 264 days after the 31/05/2025 due date); year ending 31/07/2023 (received 25/09/2024, 117 days after the 31/05/2024 due date); year ending 31/07/2022 (received 19/06/2023, 19 days after the 31/05/2023 due date); year ending 31/07/2021 (received 30/04/2023, 334 days after the 31/05/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08604745

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.

• JOHNSON, Nathaniel — director, appointed 10/07/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• NATHANIEL JOHNSONchair
• Bernadine Matilda Murrain
• NORAH KAKEMBO
• TREVOR DENNIS

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITY ESCAPE.

• CITY ESCAPE income £47k
• QUALITY STUDIES income £303k
• THE EDUCATCH CHARITY income £804k
• MAKING A DIFFERENCE income £30k
• HIGHLIGHTS income £31k
• ESCAPE COMMUNITY ART IN ACTION income £309k

Side by side with its peers

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