THE PRODUCTIVITY GROUP

Registered charity 1173660 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Productivity Group (known as Be the Business) is building a movement of businesses of all shapes and sizes across the UK who want to improve their own performance and share their advice and experiences to help others do the same. We provide the inspiration, tools and resources for businesses to get started on their improvement journey.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE IN THE UK FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROMOTING PRODUCTIVITY OF BUSINESS IN ORDER THAT THE UK ECONOMY AS A WHOLE WILL BENEFIT THROUGH IMPROVED BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY, EMPLOYMENT SECURITY, JOB SATISFACTION AND STANDARDS OF LIVING.

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 the charity reported a net deficit of £2.05 million for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily due to the conclusion of major grant funding and associated restructuring costs. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £835k, which is above the stated policy target of £550k, and the charity holds a cash balance of £1.17 million, providing resources for future sustainability.

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

• Employees paid over £60,000: 14 (FY2024) → 12 (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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Anthony Impey — CEO (source)
• Jean Stevens (Duprez) — Project Director (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (75% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir CHARLIE MAYFIELDchair
• Dr HOSEIN KHAJEH-HOSSEINY · trustee of 3 other charities
• TERA ALLAS

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHARITY FINANCE GROUP.

• THE CHARITY FINANCE GROUP income £2.0m
• BEIGHTON BIZZY BEE PLAYGROUPS LIMITED income £1.0m
• BUSINESS IN THE COMMUNITY income £12.9m
• THE OXFORD GROUP income £383k
• BUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP (UK) LTD income £1.9m
• THE BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY income £21.9m

Side by side with its peers

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