STEPWAY

Registered charity 1186465 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote and protect the mental health and wellbeing of the Armed Forces community living in England and Wales, for the public benefit, by preventing social exclusion and reducing disadvantage at any stage of life through the provision of support services, welfare provision, therapeutic and wellbeing activities, education, training, employability programmes, advocacy and research.

Objects

To promote and protect the mental health and wellbeing of veterans and family members of the British Armed Forces living in England and Wales, for the public benefit.To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded through the provision of support services, health and wellbeing activities, education, training, employability programmes and inclusive community initiatives. This includes members of the British Armed Forces Community who are in custody, preparing for release, resettling following release, or at risk of entering the criminal justice system as a result of becoming socially excluded. For the purpose of this clause ?socially excluded? means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one or more of the following factors: membership of the British Armed Forces Community, unemployment, financial hardship, age, ill health, disability, substance misuse or dependency, discrimination, lack of educational or skills attainment, relationship or family breakdown, social isolation, homelessness, insecure or substandard housing, crime or as a victim of crime. To advance education and promote research, awareness, partnership working and advocacy in relation to the needs of the Armed Forces community, in order to improve outcomes for veterans and their families, regardless of length of service or time since discharge.

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: Malvern Hills, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £19,000 at the year end, which trustees consider appropriate given the charity's current growth phase. The charity reported a net increase in funds of £21,523 for the period, with total income of £159,161 against total payments of £137,638. The trustees confirmed there are no uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

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Policies the charity declares

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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)

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

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kevin Joseph McCannchair
• Anthony Nicholas Hacon
• Christopher Stanley Mitchell
• David John Warham
• Gillian Elaine McCann
• Mandy Christine Knighton
• Michael David O'Connell

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CARE AFTER COMBAT.

• CARE AFTER COMBAT income £973k
• TEAM ENDEAVOUR income £29k
• EACH COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT income £2.2m
• HEAD IN THE GAME income £114k
• THE HATHAWAY TRUST income £77k
• MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS income £28.2m

Side by side with its peers

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