UP - UNLOCKING POTENTIAL

Registered charity 1163932 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE 1-UP FOUNDATION

We support schools and communities to ensure no child or family struggles alone with their social, emotional and mental health needs. We provide trauma-informed, flexible, multidisciplinary therapeutic interventions for children experiencing trauma, poverty and adversity, alongside place-based support and advice for parents, carers and teachers, and placement training for future practitioners.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a modest surplus of £45,120 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £3,173,204 and total expenditure of £3,128,084. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £870,637, which the Trustees consider to be within their target range of three to six months' operational expenditure. The charity maintains adequate resources to continue in operation for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — UP-Unlocking Potential (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (51% 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: 6.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/10/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• STUART RODENchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Andrew Timothy Cook · trustee of 2 other charities
• BRIAN ANDREW LINDEN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Caroline Mary Heaven Herbert · trustee of 2 other charities
• Charlotte Sophie Warshaw
• Jonathan Clark
• Ntolyanna Mordochai
• TATIANA ROSE AMORY
• THOMAS WILLIAM BIBLE BA · trustee of 1 other charity
• WILLIAM MICHAEL JEFFERIES DE WINTON · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Aim Up.

• Aim Up income £2.3m
• UPREACH CHARITABLE COMPANY income £4.7m
• STAND BY ME income £3.0m
• OUR HIDDEN TREASURE income £111k
• START UPRIGHT income £5.5m
• BOUNCE! BRIGHTER FUTURES FOUNDATION income £177k

Side by side with its peers

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