Right to Succeed CIO
Registered charity 1160886 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OXFORD YOUTH LAB
Right to Succeed brings together best practice educationalists, deliverers, philanthropists, & commissioners to:1. Develop collaborative solutions to systemic problems of educational and youth employment inequality2. Pilot these solutions at a size where they can be robustly proven3. Scale and replicate the effective solutions until they reach a systemic scale
Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £860,412 for the year, with total income rising to £7,192,767. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £3,604,710 exceed the stated policy target of 4.5 months of expenditure, indicating strong financial resilience.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Related-party transaction: Payment to Place Matters
“During the year, a payment of £121,472 was made to Place Matters, a charity of which Right to Succeed’s CEO Graeme Duncan is a trustee and co-founder.” — page 45
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Right to Succeed Limited
“During the year, Right to Succeed CIO had one wholly owned subsidiary, Right to Succeed Limited (company registration 08689873).”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Graeme Duncan — CEO (source)
- Graeme Duncan — Chief Executive Officer (source)
- Rekha Patel-Harrison — Chief Programmes & Development Officer (source)
- Abbie Maher — Chief Human Resources & Operations Officer (source)
- Julia Everson — Executive Director (source)
- Marc Bamber — Director (source)
- Chris Dew — Finance Director (source)
- Suzanne McCarthy — Chair (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): instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£222k
Reported reserves equal ~6.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (59% 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: 3.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Suzanne McCarthychair
- Alita Benson
- Arshmeena Durrani · trustee of 1 other charity
- Catherine Hodges
- Deborah Bailey
- Holly Baxter
- Julia Grant
- Michael Ian Wells
- Paul Webb
- Steven Anderton
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England
Income and spending
Common questions
Is Right to Succeed CIO financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £860,412 for the year, with total income rising to £7,192,767. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £3,604,710 exceed the stated policy target of 4.5 months of expenditure, indicating strong financial resilience. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP.
Who funds Right to Succeed CIO?
Funders whose own accounts filings name Right to Succeed CIO as a grant recipient include SHINE: SUPPORT AND HELP IN EDUCATION, IMPETUS - THE PRIVATE EQUITY FOUNDATION, GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION, THE YOUTH ENDOWMENT FUND CHARITABLE TRUST, THE STEVE MORGAN FOUNDATION.
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