ONWARDS & UPWARDS

Registered charity 1194457 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our mission is to free ex-offenders from the cycle of reoffending by creating jobs that change lives for good. We are creating a suite of companies in which to employ ex-offenders, bringing employment rates up & re-offending rates down. By creating best-in-class products and services and shining a light on our staff, we will also help shift business attitudes towards employing ex-offenders.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO PROMOTE THE REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, BY PROVIDING TRAINING IN USEFUL SKILLS, EMPLOYMENT, MENTORING, GUIDANCE AND REHABILITATION, SO AS TO PREPARE OFFENDERS FOR SUSTAINABLE EMPLOYMENT AND TO HELP THEM TO RE-INTEGRATE INTO THE COMMUNITY."OFFENDERS" INCLUDES EX-OFFENDERS AND THOSE AT RISK OF OFFENDING.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £145,865 for the year ended 31 May 2025, with total income of £1,212,487 against total expenditure of £1,066,622. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £260,151, which is above the stated policy target of holding between 3 and 6 months of operating expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. 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 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
• 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: XO BIKES LIMITED Companies House 13913618

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Onwards and Upwards (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ian Priest — CEO (source)
• Will Evans — Managing Director (source)
• Maria Harcourt — Operations Director (source)
• Sir John Sunderland — Trustee (source)
• Judy Khan — Trustee (source)
• Jonathan Sellors — Trustee (source)
• Zenna Hopson — Trustee (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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (61% 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: 32.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER ALAN MOORE
• Jonathan Sellors
• Judge Judith Khan
• Sir John Michael Sunderland
• Zenna Atkins

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 RISEUP.

• RISEUP income £38k
• THE WELCOME DIRECTORY income £69k
• THE OPENWORK FOUNDATION income £1.2m
• BECOME CHARITY income £2.0m
• FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE income £1.5m
• GUILD CARE income £27.5m

Side by side with its peers

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