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.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a consolidated surplus of £379,363 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £5,629,442 against total expenditure of £5,250,079. The group holds unrestricted funds of £1,126,789, which the trustees note represents approximately one and a half months of budgeted expenses. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements were 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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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