Launchpad Social Enterprise

Registered charity 1162372 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WINCHESTER SOCIAL ENTERPRISE, WSE

To relieve poverty, to advance education, and to relieve need in individuals arising from their youth, age infirmity or disability, financial hardship or social circumstances, by any charitable means and in such places in the world as the Trustees from time to time decide.

Objects

1.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1.1.1 TO RELIEVE POVERTY, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, AND TO RELIEVE NEED IN INDIVIDUALS ARISING FROM THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES, BY ANY CHARITABLE MEANS AND IN SUCH PLACES IN THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE; AND/OR1.1.2 THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO THE MORAL AND SOCIAL WELFARE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF ALL SUCH RESEARCH; AND/OR1.1.3 THE PROMOTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF URBAN OR RURAL REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION BY ANY CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE; AND/OR1.1.4 SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southampton, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a surplus of £379,363 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £5,629,442 and total expenditure of £5,250,079. The group holds unrestricted funds of £1,126,789, representing approximately one and a half months of budgeted expenses, which is below the trustees' target of three months. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2022 (received 23/08/2023, 54 days after the 30/06/2023 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

• Trading subsidiary: PAINT POTS PRE-SCHOOL & NURSERY LIMITED Companies House 03895659
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09166520

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.

• PARKER, Theresa Lesley, The Revd — director, appointed 22/01/2025on trustee list
• WARD, Thomas Adam — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
• MOUNSTEPHEN, Philip Ian, Bishop — director, appointed 13/12/2023on trustee list
• KRINKS, Philip Lewis, The Revd Dr — director, appointed 15/02/2022on trustee list
• HARBIDGE, Colin John Hamilton — director, appointed 15/11/2021on trustee list
• DYKE, Jane Elizabeth — director, appointed 01/11/2019on trustee list
• WINCHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE — corporate director, appointed 07/08/2014not on trustee list
• RALPH, Nicholas Robert, The Revd Canon — secretary, appointed 09/07/2015

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Right Reverend Philip Ian Mounstephenchair
• Colin John Hamilton Harbidge
• Jane Elizabeth Dyke · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Philip Lewis Krinks · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Theresa Lesley Parker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Adam Ward · trustee of 1 other charity
• WDBF

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Side by side with its peers

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