THE MIZEN FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1189642 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Education/trainingEconomic/community Development/employment

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: 3.1 TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP YOUNG PEOPLE INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION BY: 3.1.1 ACTING AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 24 BY PROVIDING ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING APPRENTICESHIP PLACEMENTS; 3.1.2 PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF ACTIVITIES THAT WILL ENABLE YOUNG PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AS INDEPENDENT AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS; 3.1.3 PROMOTING GOOD CITIZENSHIP; 3.1.4 PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES FOR RECREATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE COMMUNITY BY WORKING WITH SPORTS CLUBS AND TEAMS; AND 3.1.5 ADVANCING EDUCATION. 3.1.6 PROMOTING, BUT NOT PROSELYTISING, THE POSSIBLE BENEFITS OF CHRISTIAN AND OTHER FAITHS IN ENABLING THE PRACTICE OF FORGIVENESS AND TOLERANCE IN SITUATIONS OF CONFLICT FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE WIDER COMMUNITY.3.2 TO PROMOTE THE PROTECTION OF PEOPLE AND THE PREVENTION OF CRIME AND RELIEVE ALL THOSE AFFLICTED BY VIOLENCE OR ABUSE IN THEIR OWN LIVES WHETHER THEY ARE AGGRESSORS OR VICTIMS OR BOTH INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION BY: 3.2.1 EMPOWERING YOUNG PEOPLE TO DEVELOP THE ABILITY TO MANAGE ANGER AND TO DEVELOP SKILLS IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, ENGAGE AND PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY WITHOUT RESORTING TO VIOLENCE; 3.2.2 BY ENCOURAGEMENT OF GREATER PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE PREVENTION AND SOLUTION OF CRIME WITH A VIEW TO THE PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC ORDER; 3.2.3 BY ASSISTING THE POLICE IN MEASURES DESIGNED TO REDUCE THE LEVEL OF CRIME; AND 3.2.4 INCLUDING PROVISION OF PEER SUPPORT TO THOSE AFFECTED BY VIOLENT CRIME. 3.4 TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER PURPOSE THAT IS CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES THAT SUPPORTS OR ASSISTS YOUNG PEOPLE AND THOSE AFFECTED BY CRIME.

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

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lewisham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £2,833 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted income of £100,546 against total expenditure of £97,713. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds a Reserve Fund of £31,000 and a Premises Reserve of £6,000, providing approximately four months of operating cost cover. The accumulated fund carried forward to the end of the year was £56,209.

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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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 — Mizen Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Conwaychair
• Barry Mizen MBE
• CLARENCE EDEN MITCHELL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicola Everson

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE MILES FOUNDATION income £28k
• THE MINNER-SCHEIDEMANN CHARITABLE TRUST income £40k
• NIAZ FOUNDATION income £42k
• MS FOUNDATION LIMITED income £46k
• MILTON KEYNES SPECIAL NEEDS ADVANCEMENT PROJECT income £1.1m
• PERSONAL BEST FOUNDATION income £135k

Side by side with its peers

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