PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE LTD

Registered charity 292579 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOMELESS AND OFFENDER PROJECTS AND ENTERPRISES LIMITED, HOPE, HOPE (KENT) LIMITED

Pathways works with individuals and groups that are marginalised and disadvantaged. We aim to play an active role in seeking an inclusive and equal society by providing supported accommodation services to people who are homeless or in housing and who are offenders.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an operating surplus of £36,000, resulting in unrestricted free reserves of £1,913,000, which significantly exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £150,000. The trustees confirmed that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, citing healthy cash flows and profitability despite a challenging economic environment.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

What the charity says about itself (2025)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark Milton — Group CEO (source)
• Naomi Atkinson — Director of Central Services and Transformation (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• The Co-op Community Fund — “The Co-op Community Fund is supporting SIG Penrose Bridge House in developing wellbeing, community, and recovery-focused activities for resi…” (source page)
• The Mercers’ Company — “The Mercers’ Company ‘s Members’ Philanthropy Programme provided a one-off grant to support Safe Ground’s Man Up? programme” (source page)
• Luton Rising’s Community Investment Fund — “London Luton Airport , through Luton Rising’s Community Investment Fund, provides sustained support to SIG Penrose STEPS” (source page)
• Tesco — “Tesco supports SIG Penrose Roots through its Stronger Starts programme, helping us deliver healthy food, skills development, and wellbeing a…” (source page)
• Barratt David Wilson Kent — “Barratt David Wilson Kent supported SIG Pathways to Independence with a one-off donation through their Community Fund.” (source page)
• Chestnut Green Limited — “Chestnut Green Limited . provides an annual donation to SIG Penrose Roots , supporting our therapeutic horticulture programme for people in …” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £6k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~10.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/11/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CATHY KANE · trustee of 4 other charities
• Claire Barton · trustee of 4 other charities
• Dylan Kerr · trustee of 4 other charities
• Kobi Boakye · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rebecca Escott-New · trustee of 4 other charities
• Stuart Jenkin · trustee of 7 other charities

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

Operates in: Kent · Medway

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE LONDON PATHWAY.

• THE LONDON PATHWAY income £1.0m
• HOPE HOUSING, TRAINING AND SUPPORT LIMITED income £1.6m
• CHANGING PATHWAYS income £2.9m
• PATHWAYS FOR ALL PEOPLE income £246k
• PASSAGE 2000 income £11.1m
• STEP BY STEP PARTNERSHIP LIMITED income £4.6m

Side by side with its peers

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