Empowering 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).
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.
What the accounts disclose
Policies the charity declares
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- 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
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)
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
Trustees
- M NEEDSchair
- Leanne Airey
- S HARPER
- SUSAN FARTHING
- Vivienne Nott
Income and spending
| Financial year end | Income | Spending |
|---|---|---|
| 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
| Funder | Year | Amount | Purpose (as stated by the funder) |
|---|---|---|---|
| THE 4814 TRUST | FY2024 | £10k | |
| THE SIR JAMES RECKITT CHARITY | FY2025 | £5k | Children |
| THE NINEVEH CHARITABLE TRUST | FY2024 | Unverified read£919 |
Government & lottery funding
| Funder | Date | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 07/07/2023 | £10k | Empowering Through 2023 |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 20/05/2022 | £10k | Empowering Futures Project |
Funders of similar charities
| Funder | Similar charities funded | Amount to them |
|---|---|---|
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WILTSHIRE & SWINDON | 1 | £138k |
| NEW GROUND CHURCHES | 1 | £117k |
| READING FAMILY CHURCH | 1 | £98k |
| CAMBRIDGESHIRE ACRE | 1 | £84k |
| CHRIST CENTRAL CHURCHES WORLDWIDE | 1 | £49k |
| COMMISSION APOSTOLIC TRUST LTD | 1 | £18k |
| EUROPEAN UNION FOR PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM | 1 | £14k |
| REGIONS BEYOND UK | 1 | £11k |
Charities like this
- CLARION FUTURES
- FUTURE FOR ALL
- SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES
- JUBILEE+
- GRATITUDE
- TROWBRIDGE COMMUNITY AREA FUTURE
Side by side with its peers
| Charity | Income | Top pay band | Staff >£60k | Reserves vs policy | Fundraising cost | Going concern |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empowering Futures | £318k | — | 0 | unclear | — | no doubt |
| CLARION FUTURES | £17.2m | — | — | unclear | — | no doubt |
| FUTURE FOR ALL | £140k | — | 0 | unclear | — | no doubt |
| SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES | £176k | — | 0 | unclear | — | no doubt |
| JUBILEE+ | £243k | — | 0 | above | — | no doubt |
| GRATITUDE | £169k | — | 0 | unclear | — | no doubt |