The Sapphire Employability and Wellbeing Academy

Registered charity 1193377 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE SAPPHIRE COMMUNITY GROUP, THE SAPPHIRE FOUNDATION LIMITED, THE UK SAPPHIRE FOUNDATION

Sapphire is dedicated to empowering, equipping, inspiring, and educating individuals from ethnic minority and disadvantaged backgrounds. We focus on employability, housing, wellbeing, and enrichment, aiming to bring about lasting positive change in communities in the UK.We are Empowering, Equipping, Inspiring, Training, Mentoring, Motivating and Educating all ethnic minorities to greatness"

Objects

TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF LONDON, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS.

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

Causes: Education/training · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the company reported a net profit of £20,918 and retained profit of £16,944 for the year ended 30th April 2025. Per the balance sheet, the company holds £41,874 in cash and has total liabilities of £12,245, resulting in a net asset position of £65,181. The directors are confident in the company's potential in the foreseeable future.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/04/2025 (received 09/06/2026, 101 days after the 28/02/2026 due date); year ending 30/04/2023 (received 22/07/2024, 144 days after the 29/02/2024 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Sapphire Employability and Wellbeing Academy (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Fenella Nganje · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jasmine Cannon-Ikurusi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jessica Katie Wicks · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lorraine Yermofio · trustee of 1 other charity
• Melanie Akas · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sharon Sikod · trustee of 1 other charity
• Victoria Ikurusi Simon-Michael

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SAPPHIRE PROJECT ORGANISATION.

• SAPPHIRE PROJECT ORGANISATION income £208k
• SAFAR ACADEMY TRUST income £1.5m
• SOS EDUCATION ORGANISATION income £128k
• ASPYRE AFRICA income £54k
• SABRE EDUCATION LIMITED income £1.2m
• SHIRE TRAINING WORKSHOPS LIMITED income £510k

Side by side with its peers

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