Empowering Futures

Registered charity 1182139 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BE EMPOWERED FARM FUTURES

For the public benefit, to set out to fill gaps delivered by other organisations to perceived isolated, unemployable and/or disabled people by offering and/or providing assistance to find employment. To enable and match low skilled people to meaningful activities and responsibilities which allow their individual growth in line with their individual capability to enable them to escape exclusion

Objects

TO PROMOTE 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 BY PROVIDING THERAPEUTIC GARDENING ACTIVITIES WITHIN A COMMUNITY GARDEN.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR 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.

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Gloucestershire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£318k
Latest spending
£293k
Registered
2019
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's total funds increased from £232,308 to £292,504, driven by a significant rise in charitable activity income. The trustees report that the charity is a going concern, with adequate resources to continue its operations and meet its liabilities as they fall due.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2025

  • Volunteers: 95
  • Government income: £64,192 — grants £64,192 (1); 20% of the £317,582 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2024

  • Volunteers: 53
  • Government income: £13,641 — grants £13,641 (2); 6% of the £240,860 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2023

  • Volunteers: 140
  • Government income: £5,850 — contracts £5,850 (1); 2% of the £236,589 total gross income on the same return

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

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Bristol City · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
05/04/2025£318k£293k
05/04/2024£241k£320k
05/04/2023£237k£172k
05/04/2022£80k£79k
05/04/2021£77k£62k

Common questions

Is Empowering Futures financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity's total funds increased from £232,308 to £292,504, driven by a significant rise in charitable activity income. The trustees report that the charity is a going concern, with adequate resources to continue its operations and meet its liabilities as they fall due. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds Empowering Futures?

Funders whose own accounts filings name Empowering Futures as a grant recipient include THE 4814 TRUST, THE SIR JAMES RECKITT CHARITY.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE 4814 TRUSTFY2024£10k
THE SIR JAMES RECKITT CHARITYFY2025£5kChildren
THE NINEVEH CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024Unverified read£919

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

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund07/07/2023£10kEmpowering Through 2023
The National Lottery Community Fund20/05/2022£10kEmpowering Futures Project

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 CLARION FUTURES.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
Empowering Futures£318k—0unclear—no doubt
CLARION FUTURES FY2025£17.2m——unclear—no doubt
FUTURE FOR ALL FY2025£140k—0unclear—no doubt
SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES FY2025£176k—0unclear—no doubt
JUBILEE+ FY2025£243k—0above—no doubt
GRATITUDE FY2025£169k—0unclear—no doubt

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