THE TALENT TAP

Registered charity 1183124 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Talent Tap is a social mobility charity with a mission to meaningfully change the lives of talented state educated students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, by giving them the work experience, support, and network, that they need to succeed in their chosen careers.

Objects

TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:(A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION;(C) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT.

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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Registered contact address: Bath and North East Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £47,475 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a reduction of total reserves to £82,805. The trustees expect to resolve the deficit by the end of the following year, ending 31 August 2026, through a refreshed strategy and expanded trustee capacity.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Talent Tap (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• RUPERT BARTON TAYLORchair
• Alix Alexandra Williams
• Christopher Michael Donkin
• Jessica Mollie Lythgow
• Julia KATE Licudi
• Laura Alexandra Boyle Muir
• Matthew James Brennan
• ROB WILLIS
• Roger Evert Rijkelt Kempink

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE TALENT FOUNDRY TRUST.

• THE TALENT FOUNDRY TRUST income £2.0m
• TIME AND TALENTS ASSOCIATION income £616k
• THE SOCIAL MOBILITY FOUNDATION income £3.3m
• THE TALENT FUND income £2.2m
• THE KARTA INITIATIVE income £140k
• TIP TOP MUSICALS LTD income £84k

Side by side with its peers

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