BOOST UP

Registered charity 1195988 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGENCY

Our objectives are to support young homeless Londoners to access housing, using capital to pay the deposit, rent in advance, top up fees and to act as a nonprofit guarantor.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY THROUGHOUT ENGLAND AND WALES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF GRANTS TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED, PRIMARILY (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) TO ASSIST IN COVERING THE COSTS OF ACCOMMODATION, BASIC LIVING NECESSITIES AND ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO GENERATE A SUSTAINABLE INCOME AND BE SELFSUFFICIENT.

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Boost Up reported a deficit of £13,589 for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £64,622 to £51,033. The trustees confirmed that no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The organization is currently run by volunteers with no staff or property, and its future reserves policy is yet to be developed.

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 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• 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)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Boakes A.B
• Binal Varsani B.V
• Safiya Rehman S.R

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 BUILD UP FOUNDATION.

• BUILD UP FOUNDATION income £366k
• POWER UP income £57k
• ROUNDABOUT LIMITED income £9.4m
• HELPING EDUCATING AND REBUILDING LIVES income £78k
• Aim Up income £2.3m
• REACH UP YOUTH income £236k

Side by side with its peers

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