SHIFT ORGANISATION LTD
Registered charity 1191125 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE WHATEVER IT TAKES ORGANISATION, WHATEVER IT TAKES
SHiFT will break the destructive cycle of children and young people committing crimes so that, instead, they make a positive contribution to our society and build better lives for themselves.
Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted and unassigned reserves of £441,788 at the end of the financial year, which the trustees report is approximately six months of free reserves, meeting their policy target of three to six months. Per the independent auditor's report, the financial statements give a true and fair view and no material uncertainties regarding going concern were identified. The charity reported a net surplus of £764,631 for the year, supported by total income of £2,816,963.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: three and six months of reserves (held: £442k)
“The organisation's reserves policy is to ensure that, over and above any funds restricted or assigned to each Programme, we maintain between three and six months of reserves” — page 12
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Sedulo Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Professor Martin Griffiths CBE — Chair of the Board of Trustees (source)
- Dr Amy Ludlow — Chief Executive (source)
- Hilary Dixon — Director of Practice and Learning (source)
- Siân Halas — Director of Systems Change (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Dr Luke Roberts
- Dr Martin Griffiths
- Keir Monteith KC
- Pamela Parkes
- Rasheed Pendry
- Rebecca Louise Cramer
- SOPHIE HUMPHREYS
- Sarah Hazzledine
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is SHIFT ORGANISATION LTD financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted and unassigned reserves of £441,788 at the end of the financial year, which the trustees report is approximately six months of free reserves, meeting their policy target of three to six months. Per the independent auditor's report, the financial statements give a true and fair view and no material uncertainties regarding going concern were identified. The charity reported a net surplus of £764,631 for the year, supported by total income of £2,816,963. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sedulo Audit Limited.
Who funds SHIFT ORGANISATION LTD?
Funders whose own accounts filings name SHIFT ORGANISATION LTD as a grant recipient include THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION, THE WOOLDRIDGE CHARITABLE TRUST.
Known funders
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