SIXTY-ONE

Registered charity 1159302 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Sixty-One is a partnership of Bristol based charities, churches, businesses and individuals who have come together to work co-operatively to help ex-prisoners lead meaningful lives that are free from crime. As charity in its own right it also runs its own projects through employed staff.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED OR HARDSHIP IN BRISTOL AND THE SURROUNDING REGION AND IN PARTICULAR PRISONERS, EX-PRISONERS AND THOSE WHO ARE AT RISK OF ENTERING THE PRISON SYSTEM BY (IN EACH CASE IN WAYS WHICH ARE CONSISTENT WITH PRINCIPLES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH):PROVIDING AND FINANCING A MENTORING SERVICE TO ASSIST SUCH PERSONS IN DEVELOPING SKILLS TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND TO ADVANCE THEIR EDUCATION; ANDPROMOTING AND FINANCING SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES SEE FIT IN ORDER TO RELIEVE SUCH PERSONS FROM HARDSHIP AND TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £211,890, which the trustees describe as 'slightly above the anticipated expenditure for the first 6 months of 2026' and 'healthy'. The charity reports a net income increase to £61,048 and notes that its financial stability has been maintained for the last decade through voluntary funds.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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)

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sixty-One (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW STREETchair · trustee of 11 other charities
• ANDREW SIMON WOOD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Folake Mobolati Adekola
• JOHN EDWARD BARNETT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kendia Rebecca Thevanesan
• PATRICIA ALEXANDRA SYKES
• PAUL HEDLEY TIPLER

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Thirtyone:eight.

• Thirtyone:eight income £3.3m
• ONE BY ONE income £620k
• BRISTOL CITY OF SANCTUARY income £180k
• ONE income £46k
• ONE-EIGHTY LIMITED income £1.2m
• YOUNG BRISTOL income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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