ONE SMALL THING

Registered charity 1180782 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OST

One Small Thing is striving for positive change in the criminal justice system by implementing small changes in a big way. We provide trauma-informed treatment programmes for the prison and community sectors that consider the individual caught in a cycle of crime and incarceration and aim to humanise their process.

Objects

1. FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE PROMOTION OF THE RELIEF AND REHABILITATION OF PRISONERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM PRISON ESTATE, OF EX-OFFENDERS AND OF PEOPLE AT RISK OF OFFENDING BY (BUT NOT LIMITED TO):(A) ENABLING THE PROVISION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF GENDER-RESPONSIVE AND TRAUMA-INFORMED PRACTICE WITHIN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM;(B) THE PROVISION OF A COMMUNITY-BASED CENTRE OR CENTRES OFFERING ACCOMMODATION (INCLUDING TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION) SPECIALIST SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE IN WORK ACTIVITIES EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO WOMEN (AND THEIR CHILDREN) WHO ARE IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM OR WHO ARE AT RISK OF OFFENDING OR RE-OFFENDING; ‘TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE’ MEANS AN APPROACH, ENCOMPASSING STAFF, RESIDENTS IN PRISONS AND THE WIDER COMMUNITY, WHICH RECOGNISES AND ACKNOWLEDGES TRAUMA AND ITS PREVALENCE ALONGSIDE AWARENESS AND SENSITIVITY TO ITS DYNAMICS.2. THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF CRIME AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY.

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 surplus of £1,187,330 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing to £4,268,250. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £1,515,837, which is above the stated policy target of five months' operating costs. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Melanie Craig: 'Doing one small thing for your community makes a huge difference' eadt.co.uk · 21/01/2023

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — One Small Thing (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Claire Hubberstey — Chief Executive (source)
• Rachel Oliver — Director of Operations and Deputy CEO (source)
• Emma Teviotdale — Chief Financial Officer (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £3.0m. 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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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: 3.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• LADY EDWINA LOUISE SNOWchair
• Alexandra Blair
• ELEANOR LOUISE Horne
• Jodie Townsend
• Lorna Forbes
• Samantha Horne
• Sarah Hughes

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.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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