THRIVE AT FIVE

Registered charity 1195059 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC054336 (OSCR)

The charity is established to support the design and delivery of joined-up services supporting children's development in the early-years in disadvantaged communities in order to improve outcomes for children interms of school readiness.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,669,515, while restricted funds decreased to £279,326. The charity reported a net deficit of £283,746 for the year, driven by significant expenditure on charitable activities. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern, noting a strong funding pipeline to support future growth.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gerald Edelman LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Aida Cable — CEO (source)
• Imogen Hirsch — Director of Design, Development and Strategic Planning (source)
• Chris Wellings — Director of Learning and Impact (source)
• Lucy Vidal — Finance Director (source)
• Karla Capstick — Director of Programme (Stoke-on-Trent) (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): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 6.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ben Levinson OBE
• Dr Julian Grenier
• Elizabeth Stanton · trustee of 1 other charity
• GRANT EDWARD GORDON · trustee of 3 other charities
• Larissa Joy · trustee of 2 other charities
• Merle Davies MA, MSc
• TINA SCOTT

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

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• GRANT EDWARD GORDON — trustee here and at The Ethos Foundation
• Larissa Joy — trustee here and at SOCIAL BUSINESS TRUST

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FIVE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES TRUST LTD.

• FIVE CHILDREN AND FAMILIES TRUST LTD income £2.3m
• THRIVE TOGETHER BIRMINGHAM income £695k
• BEAVER COMMUNITY TRUST LTD income £633k
• RAINBOW COMMUNITY NURSERY income £807k
• THORNTON HOUGH PLAYGROUP income £102k
• LONGTHORPE PLAYGROUP income £268k

Side by side with its peers

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