CHAPTER2

Registered charity 1177011 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ALIVE AND DANGEROUS

Chapter2 supports organisations that wish to provide a mentoring programme for young persons and in particular boys growing up with an absent father. This is achieved by providing; recruitment, training, equipping and assessment of potential mentors, provision of leisure time activities, ongoing support and access to a network of referral agencies. Current operations are in the Reading area.

Objects

TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND RELIEVE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH:A) THE PROVISION OF MENTORING AND SUPPORTB) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY; ANDC) THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR PERSONS THAT MENTOR AND SUPPORT SUCH YOUNG PERSONS.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £57,022.93 for the year ended 31 October 2025, with total income of £230,871.88 against total costs of £173,848.95. The trustees declare that the reserves policy is to maintain unrestricted funds of at least six months of operating expenditure, and the management accounts show a significant surplus, indicating strong current financial health.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Chapter2 (matched by registered charity number).

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Trustees · trustee networks

• DR RICHARD KAYchair
• Dr CLAIRE ADEBOLANLE BANKOLE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Giles Allchurch
• Guy Pritchard · trustee of 1 other charity
• Irwin Buchanan · trustee of 2 other charities
• Samuel Lloyd

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

• COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE income £654k
• SUPPORT2ACHIEVE income £986k
• THE PARENTING PROJECT income £566k
• THE MENTOR RING income £78k
• PARENTING 2000 income £717k
• PLACE2BE income £28.9m

Side by side with its peers

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