UNITY WORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES

Registered charity 1185113 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Supporting people with a learning disability to gain skills, achieve qualifications, secure and sustain jobs and be part of their community. Working with employers to achieve a more inclusive workforce, increase employment opportunities for people with a learning disability. Running social enterprises to create work and training opportunities for people with a learning disability.

Objects

THE COMPANY'S OBJECTS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, ARE:(I) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF CARE, SUPPORT AND SERVICES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ASSISTANCE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT AND BY THE PROMOTION OF THE AWARENESS OF THE NEEDS OF SUCH PERSONS; AND(II) THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFECTIVE USE OF CHARITABLE RESOURCES BY THE PROVISION OF SERVICES TO ORGANISATIONS INVOLVED IN THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERSAND THE COMPANY CAN DO ALL OTHER THINGS THAT ARE INCIDENTAL OR CONDUCIVE TO ITS OBJECTS OR ANY OF THEM.

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

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Kesteven, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £92,671 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing previous deficits. However, the charity holds net overdrawn unrestricted reserves of £776,051, largely due to intra-group debt owed to its parent charity, Thera Trust. The trustees rely on the parent group's transformation plan and intra-group funding agreement to maintain going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 3 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Unity Works (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Jane Bunney
• Lorna Havard Weston · trustee of 4 other charities
• Tavish Kumar
• VIRGINIA BEARDSHAW

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• THE TEAMWORK TRUST income £1.3m
• OPPORTUNITIES R UN LIMITED income £38k
• PEOPLE AND WORK UNIT income £255k
• SUPPORTED COMMUNITY BUSINESS (SPECIAL NEEDS) income £325k
• UNITAS income £943k
• REACH LEARNING DISABILITY income £3.9m

Side by side with its peers

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