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

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARETO ADVANCE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ANY PURPOSE OR PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME SEE FIT WITH A NON-EXCLUSIVE FOCUS ON THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY THOSE FROM DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION BY:A) PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT TO SUCH YOUNG PEOPLE; AND B) PROVIDING SUPPORT TO INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANISATIONS ADVANCING THE EDUCATION OF SUCH PEOPLE.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

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

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: RIGHT TO SUCCEED LIMITED Companies House 08689873

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)

Reported reserves equal ~6.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• 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

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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.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUCCESS CLUB CIO.

• SUCCESS CLUB CIO income £345k
• I CAN TOO income £25k
• LEARNING ALLOWED CONNECT CIO income £61k
• SOLUTIONS NOT SIDES income £590k
• WE GET IT TOGETHER CIO income £64k
• THE CORPORATE JUSTICE COALITION CIO income £193k

Side by side with its peers

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