ONLY A PAVEMENT AWAY CIO

Registered charity 1178082 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OAPA · also registered in Scotland as SC054377 (OSCR)

Acting as the conduit between employers and charities in order to help & support vulnerable people who are homeless, ex-offenders or military veterans into work within the hospitality industry.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT OF VULNERABLE, SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE HOMELESS, EX-OFFENDERS AND EX-SERVICE PERSONNEL) BY OVERSEEING THE DELIVERY OF PROGRAMMES, SERVICES AND GUIDANCE IN RESPECT OF THEIR TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT AND ACCOMMODATION WITH A VIEW TO PROMOTING THEIR REINTEGRATION INTO SOCIETY.

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

Causes: Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £39,242 for the year ended 30 April 2025, resulting in total reserves decreasing from £793,852 to £754,610. The trustees consider the remaining free reserves of £528,578 to be sufficient and in accordance with their policy of maintaining a six-month expenditure reserve. The independent auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Whitley Stimpson Limited. Discloses 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/04/2023 (received 03/04/2024, 34 days after the 29/02/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Only A Pavement Away (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Greg Mangham — Founder & Voluntary CEO (source)
• Fiona Eastwood — Trustee (source)
• Andy Hornby — Trustee (source)
• Emma McClarkin — Trustee (source)
• Paul Pavli — Trustee (source)
• Tony Sophoclides — Trustee (source)
• Ben Stackhouse — Trustee (source)
• Maria Stanford — Trustee (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Hilton Global Foundation — “Hilton Global Foundation” (source page)
• The Veterans' Foundation — “The Veterans' Foundation has been set up to help fund charities and other charitable organisations that are helping serving and former membe…” (source page)
• The Albert Hunt Trust — “The Albert Hunt Trust” (source page)
• Savoy Educational Trust — “Savoy Educational Trust” (source page)
• Royal Warrant Holders Charity — “Royal Warrant Holders Charity” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (89% 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: 31.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTHONY SOPHOCLIDES MA HONSchair
• Alexander Wilby
• Andrew Hedley Hornby
• BEN STACKHOUSE
• Emma McClarkin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Fiona Eastwood
• Gregory John Mangham · trustee of 1 other charity
• MATTHEW PAUL WYATT
• Maria Stanford
• Mollie Stoker
• Paul Pavli
• Robert Silk
• Steven Christopher Alton

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MAKING IT OUT CIO.

• MAKING IT OUT CIO income £207k
• West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO income £478k
• VETERANS INTO LOGISTICS income £873k
• TP CARING SPACES CIO income £31k
• MOVEMENT TO WORK income £868k
• THE ASSOCIATION OF CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS income £161k

Side by side with its peers

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