ESTEEM

Registered charity 1187128 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

ESTEEM is a charity which offers young adults aged 14-26 opportunities to develop confidence, build life-skills and improve well-being. ESTEEM has recently incorporated to become a registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation. Please refer to ESTEEM's former Registered Charity Number 1058540 for our charitable history, 1995-2020 where we operated our services as an unincorporated organisation.

Objects

TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AGED BETWEEN 14 TO 26 LIVING IN SUSSEX AND THE SOUTH EAST BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, 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;(D) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS;

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £1,592 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £543,398 and total expenditure of £541,806. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £135,469, which is below the medium-term policy target of three months of operational costs but is considered sufficient given secured funding.

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 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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)

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.

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 7.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Rathbone
• Nathan Bourne
• Nigel Lecky
• Paul Hudson
• Siobhan O'Dowd
• Susan Dickson

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

Operates in: East Sussex · West Sussex

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 STEM4.

• STEM4 income £307k
• QUALITY STUDIES income £303k
• ELEM CHARITABLE TRUST income £88k
• ESSEX YOUTH TRUST income £88k
• STEADY STEPS PRE-SCHOOL income £391k
• THE EAST DURHAM EMPLOYABILITY TRUST income £926k

Side by side with its peers

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