POWER TO CHANGE TRUST

Registered charity 1159982 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q25060299 · Wikipedia

Power to Change is an independent charitable trust endowed with £150m from the Big Lottery Fund to address social need by giving grants to, and supporting community businesses, throughout England.

Objects

THE OBJECTS ARE TO FURTHER SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AS THE TRUSTEE SHALL AT ITS ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING), TO PROMOTE THE FOLLOWING, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC :5.1. INDUSTRY, COMMERCE, CHARITY AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISE WHICH:5.1.1. RELIEVES POVERTY;5.1.2. RELIEVES UNEMPLOYMENT;5.1.3. ADVANCES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OR IMPROVEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;5.1.4. ADVANCES CITIZENSHIP OR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT,THROUGH OR BY ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING INNOVATION;5.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, AND IN PARTICULAR THE STUDY OF INNOVATION, BY THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF, IN THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISE;5.3. THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR;5.4. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, BY THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES,THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING GROWTH AND ECONOMIC GENERATION AND THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES; 5.5. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF SOCIALLY AND/OR ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY;5.6. URBAN AND RURAL REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION, INCLUDING BY SUPPORTING:5.6.1. THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OR BUSINESS ADVICE OR CONSULTANCY IN ORDER TO PROVIDE TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE IN CASES OF FINANCIAL OR OTHER CHARITABLE NEED THROUGH HELP: (I) IN SETTING UP THEIR OWN BUSINESS, OR (II) TO EXISTING BUSINESSES;5.6.2. THE CREATION OF TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES BY THE PROVISION OF WORKSPACE, BUILDINGS, AND/OR LAND FOR USE ON FAVOURABLE TERMS;5.6.3. THE MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT OR PROVISION OF PUBLIC AMENITIES;5.7. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INCLUSION, BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE WHO ARE SOCIALLY AND/OR ECONOMICALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR BY: (I) MAKING DISTRIBUTIONS WHICH FURTHER THE ABOVE CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN A SUSTAINABLE WAY (II) BY PROVIDING ANCILLARY ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS SEEKING TO FURTHER THE ABOVE 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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds free reserves of £10.16m, which the trustees determined is sufficient to meet the organisation's needs through 2026. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified regarding the charity's ability to continue operations. Total expenditure for the year was £3.10m, significantly lower than the previous year due to the closure of programmes and a strategic transition to a think-do model.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 3 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~39.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (48% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• POWER TO CHANGE TRUSTEE LIMITED

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 ABILITY TO CHANGE.

• ABILITY TO CHANGE income £544k
• BIG CHANGE CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.2m
• GREATER CHANGE FOUNDATION income £1.2m
• NETWORK FOR SOCIAL CHANGE CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.0m
• CIVIC POWER FUND income £3.4m
• FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE income £243k

Side by side with its peers

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