MISSION EMPLOYABLE

Registered charity 1181597 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide training and employment for people with learning disabilities by running a cafe and gift shop in Chorleywood, Herts. People with learning disabilities will undertake supervised training in the cafe and gift shop allowing them to gain essential work experience and to work alongside others. Following such training, support will be given to obtain sustainable employment in the community.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, AMONGST YOUNG PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES BY:PROVIDING EDUCATING AND TRAINING INCLUDING VOCATIONAL AND BASIC SKILLS IN ORDER TO PREPARE THEM FOR EMPLOYMENT/WORK EXPERIENCE PLACEMENTS AND ENCOURAGING INDEPENDENT LIVINGPROMOTING PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT BY THE PROVISION OF VOCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Three Rivers, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £139,062 for the year, with total income rising to £1,075,845 and total expenditure at £936,783. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,895,043, significantly exceeding the stated policy target of six months of operating expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Millet Audit Ltd. 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
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

What the charity says about itself (2025)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Katharine Weston — Chair (source)
• Tom Smith — Head of Charity Operations (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)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~11.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (82% 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: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• KATHARINE WESTONchair
• Erica Bendall
• Garfield Weston
• Gordon Trevor Hails
• JONATHAN JAMES EDWIN PETTITT
• Mark Benjamin Wetherall
• NEIL GORDON TWOGOOD
• Philip Garner
• RICHARD MARTIN
• Zina Ruth Etheridge

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Hertfordshire

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.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with REACH LEARNING DISABILITY.

• REACH LEARNING DISABILITY income £3.9m
• WORTHWHILE OCCUPATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL KRAFTS LIMITED income £1.5m
• HORTICAP income £1.3m
• CAFE JJ income £108k
• MINERVA (NORTHUMBERLAND) LIMITED income £58k
• SUPPORTED COMMUNITY BUSINESS (SPECIAL NEEDS) income £325k

Side by side with its peers

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