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.

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

Latest income
£1.1m
Latest spending
£937k
Registered
2019
Accounts read
FY2025

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

Reserves policy: six months of operating expenditure (held: £1.9m)
“The maintenance of unrestricted reserves at a level equivalent to at least six months of operating expenditure” — page 4
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Millet Audit Ltd. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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.

Specific number of interns currently in paid employment who have sustained their roles since graduation.
“25 interns in paid employment and still there since they graduated from the programme.”

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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)

Total income
£1.1m
Total spending
£937k
Cost of raising funds
£13k
Reserves (reported)
£916k
Employees
33

Reported reserves equal ~11.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£1.1m£937k
31/08/2024£702k£731k
31/08/2023£1.0m£586k
31/03/2022£614k£77k
31/03/2021£753k£20k

Common questions

Is MISSION EMPLOYABLE financially healthy?

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. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Millet Audit Ltd.

Who funds MISSION EMPLOYABLE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name MISSION EMPLOYABLE as a grant recipient include AKO FOUNDATION, THE GRANT FOUNDATION, THE SENECA TRUST, ETHEL AND GWYNNE MORGAN TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
AKO FOUNDATIONFY2025£128ksupport for Mission EmployAble’s work training young adults with learning disabilities to develop employability skills.
THE GRANT FOUNDATIONFY2023£40kNorth African Humanitarian Support
THE GRANT FOUNDATIONFY2022£25kSupport for Those with Learning Disabilities
THE SENECA TRUSTFY2022£10k
THE GRANT FOUNDATIONFY2023£10kNorth African Humanitarian Support
ETHEL AND GWYNNE MORGAN TRUSTFY2025£1kEducation

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 WORTHWHILE OCCUPATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL KRAFTS LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
MISSION EMPLOYABLE£1.1m—0unclear—no doubt
WORTHWHILE OCCUPATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL KRAFTS LIMITED FY2024£1.4m—0unclear—no doubt
UNITY WORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES FY2025£3.0m——unclear—no doubt
BLYTH STAR ENTERPRISES LIMITED FY2025£2.6m—2above—no doubt
COMMUNITIES AND HOUSING INVESTMENT IN PEOPLE FY2024£207k—0within—no doubt
RUMBLES CATERING PROJECT LIMITED FY2025£204k—0above—no doubt

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