FRESH START FUTURE ENTERPRISES LIMITED

Registered charity 1191533 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Fresh Start are a 'Lived Experience' Mentoring & Advocacy service that specifically support individuals who have been through the criminal justice system, we work with prisoners on release from custody, who are in open prisons and people who have been given community orders. We offer support to individuals in Norfolk and Suffolk

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE REHABILITATION AND RESETTLEMENT OF EX-OFFENDERS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING MENTORING, SUPPORT, EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO HELP EX-OFFENDERS FIND SUSTAINABLE EMPLOYMENT AND HOUSING TO HELP THEM TO RE-INTEGRATE INTO THE COMMUNITY.

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

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Registered contact address: Norwich, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit for the period, with total expenditure of £175,417 exceeding total income of £163,040. The trustees have adopted a reserves policy of one month's operational costs and hold £5,000 in reserves, noting that they have trimmed costs to reverse the deficit and diversified income streams to mitigate funding risks.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• 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)

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2024 (received 29/09/2025, 61 days after the 30/07/2025 due date); year ending 30/09/2023 (received 30/09/2024, 62 days after the 30/07/2024 due date); year ending 30/09/2021 (received 23/09/2022, 55 days after the 30/07/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 12371507

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Fresh Start Future Enterprises (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• GRINT, Steven Terry — director, appointed 14/03/2025on trustee list
• MILLER, Emma — director, appointed 14/02/2024on trustee list
• JAMES, Charlotte — director, appointed 30/09/2023on trustee list
• NORMAN, Kerry Yvonne — director, appointed 26/08/2020on trustee list
• GRINT, Cathryn — secretary, appointed 14/03/2025

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charlotte James
• Emma Miller
• KERRY NORMAN
• KEVIN THURSTON
• MAX INKSON
• STEVEN GRINT

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NEWSTARTS.

• NEWSTARTS income £617k
• FRESH FUTURES (NCC) income £3.4m
• THE SAFE START FOUNDATION income £69k
• START IN SALFORD income £1.6m
• START YOUNG UK income £46k
• HOME-START READING income £136k

Side by side with its peers

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