UNLOCKED GRADUATES

Registered charity 1187552 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UNLOCKED, UNLOCKED GRADS

To promote the rehabilitation and education of prisoners and ex-prisoners and the reduction of reoffending by:(i) the provision of a specialised programme of education and training for graduate prison officers;(ii) the education and training of those engaged in the prison and probation services and the criminal justice system in the rehabilitation and education of prisoners and ex-prisoners.

Causes: Education/training · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £249,616 for the year, reducing its total reserves from £818,188 to £568,572. While unrestricted reserves of £430,897 remain above the trustees' policy target of £400,000, the auditor has identified a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern beyond October 2026 due to the lack of a confirmed Ministry of Justice contract.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 3 (FY2024) → 6 (FY2025).
• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → material uncertainty (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Leeds Trinity University hosts the Lord Chancellor visiting Unlocked Graduates’ Summer Institute fenews.co.uk · 25/09/2023
• Leeds Trinity University welcomes second Unlocked Graduates cohort fenews.co.uk · 20/08/2021

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAME SALLY COATESchair
• Angela Daniel
• Dr Christopher Thomas John Wilson
• Emma Jane Wilson
• JAMES BARRINGTON HUW DARLEY · trustee of 2 other charities
• Nathan Anthony White
• Nicola Louise Marfleet · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Douglas Farquharson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• THE CLINK CHARITY income £6.9m
• THE KEY - UNLOCK POTENTIAL income £206k
• JUSTICE DEFENDERS income £2.1m
• WALK MINISTRIES income £1.4m
• THE RIGHT COURSE income £186k
• THE SHERIFFS' AND RECORDERS' FUND income £439k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.