POLICE NOW

Registered charity 1168427 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Police Now's mission is to transform communities, reduce crime and increase the public's confidence in policing, by recruiting and developing outstanding and diverse individuals to be leaders in society and on the policing front line.Police Now, an innovative scheme aiming to transform challenged communities and develop a new generation of inspiring leaders from a diverse range of backgrounds.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE POLICE, IN PARTICULAR BY THE OPERATION OF A GRADUATE RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAMME TO RECRUIT A HIGH CALIBRE OF POLICE OFFICERS TO POLICE FORCES ACROSS THE UNITED KINGDOM.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Police Now reported a net movement in funds of £(528,224) for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in consolidated unrestricted funds of £7,977,965. The trustees confirm that reserves are above the stated target level of £7.8m and conclude there is no material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, although they note the need to closely monitor future government funding and police force contracts.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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.

• Bullying and harassment 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Kurtis Christoforides — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Penny Jerrum — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Clare Power — Chief Marketing Officer (source)
• Julie Anisiobi — Programme Director (source)
• Amanda Day — Head of Finance, IT, and Governance (source)
• Erik Rivas — Head of Marketing, Brand and Communications (source)
• Katryna Smyth — Head of Recruitment, Data and Intelligence (source)
• Millie Tanner — Head of Programme Delivery (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): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (53% 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 (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caitlin Helen Kinsella
• DOMINIC LAWRENCE CHARLESWORTH FRY
• HELEN ELIZABETH BALL
• JAMES BOWLER
• Jason Hogg
• Louisa Helen Rolfe
• Maia Jane Thomson
• Peter Freedman
• Simon Woolley Lord · trustee of 1 other charity
• Victoria Sarah Hoare Tillbrook

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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