SPIRAL SKILLS CIO

Registered charity 1209072 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPIRAL SKILLS C.I.C.

Spiral Skills delivers employability services for underserved young people, helping them improve their employability, confidence, and aspirations. Through programmes, mentoring and community collaboration, the charity supports young people to develop essential skills and mindsets, access opportunities, and impact their local community

Objects

TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND HELP YOUNG PEOPLE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO BETTER IDENTIFY AND HELP MEET THEIR NEEDS AND PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

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

Causes: Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with unrestricted reserves of minus £27,344, which is below the trustees' policy target of £109,000. Despite this negative balance, the trustees report a surplus for the year and forecast a return to positive reserves in the 2025/26 financial year.

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 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Spiral Skills CIO (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• BBC Children in Need — “We’re proud of our Changemakers, and grateful to BBC Children in Need and DJ AG for helping to lift their voices.” (source page)
• London Mayor’s Violence Reduction Unit — “The Ecosystem Coldharbour Consortium, funded by the London Mayor’s Violence Reduction Unit, aims to address root causes of violence affectin…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 2.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Thomas Harwellchair
• JONATHAN KATZ · trustee of 1 other charity
• Justin Sesay Barnes
• Sophie Hackforth-Jones

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

Operates in: Throughout London

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

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SKILLS ENTERPRISE LIMITED.

• SKILLS ENTERPRISE LIMITED income £281k
• SPIRAL SUSSEX income £689k
• SPIRAL - PREVENTING THE EFFECT OF BULLYING income £156k
• THE SPIRES CENTRE income £802k
• EUPHORIC CIRCUS CIO income £68k
• SKILLS FOR PEOPLE income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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