THE RECRUITMENT JUNCTION

Registered charity 1191442 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Recruitment Junction is a recruitment agency for ex-offenders. We are a not-for-profit enterprise with a social heart, on a commercial mission. Our vision is to see people with convictions rediscover a sense of purpose through work and become role models who drive positive generational impact across their families.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE REHABILITATION OF EX-OFFENDERS AND PEOPLE WITH CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND WITHIN A CHRISTIAN ETHOS, INCLUDING THROUGH, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE PROVISION OF MENTORING, PEER-LED SUPPORT, ADVOCACY AND BROKERAGE WITH POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS, THE PROVISION OF GRANTS, GOODS OR SERVICES, IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTITY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £283,512 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total income of £714,188 and total expenditure of £430,676. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £554,578, which the trustees assessed as 5.9 months of forecast future expenditure, slightly below their stated policy target of six months. The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit, with no matters of concern raised by the examiner.

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 4 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
• Paying staff
• 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 — The Recruitment Junction (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DOROTHY PATRICIA ALEXANDERchair
• Jessica Katherine Mellor-Clark
• Kwadwo Kyei-Sarpong
• Mark Nicholas Simpson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Polly Grace Rowe

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

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• Mark Nicholas Simpson — trustee here and at THE JUNCTION 42 FOUNDATION

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE JUNCTION 42 FOUNDATION.

• THE JUNCTION 42 FOUNDATION income £921k
• THE JUNCTION CHURCH income £634k
• ONWARDS & UPWARDS income £1.2m
• RECONNECT income £123k
• THE JUNCTION PROJECT (BRISTOL) CHARITABLE TRUST income £821k
• JUNCTION CDC LIMITED income £3.6m

Side by side with its peers

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