BUSINESS LAUNCHPAD

Registered charity 299599 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WANDSWORTH YOUTH ENTERPRISE CENTRE

Provision of enterprise training, awareness and business units for young people

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF WELFARE OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE GREATER LONDON AREA AND PRIMARILY IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH, AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESOURCES FOR SUCH PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES ARE IN NEED OR UNABLE TO GAIN EMPLOYMENT.

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £42k for the year, driven by increased trading income from its subsidiary, Trident Business Centre Limited. However, the group recorded a significant unrealised loss of £1.99m on the revaluation of its leasehold property, which reduced total unrestricted funds to £3.08m. The trustees note that free reserves are minimal, with the majority of group assets tied up in fixed property and liabilities, though they aim to rebuild reserves to three months of operating costs over the next five years.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Barnes Roffe Audit Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from more than £60,000 (FY2024) to £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 handling
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Olu Olanrewaju — Chair (source)
• Felicia Mattis-Rome — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• James Wall — Vice Chair (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~25.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (91% 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: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• OLU OLANREWAJUchair
• Akta Raja
• Bianca Riemer
• George Culverhouse
• James Richard Wall
• Simon John Williams
• WILLIAM SCEATS

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

Operates in: Throughout London

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 LAUNCHPAD CHARITABLE TRUST.

• LAUNCHPAD CHARITABLE TRUST income £0
• Launchpad Social Enterprise income £5.6m
• LAUNCH PAD income £218k
• LAUNCHPAD READING income £4.9m
• Launch It Trust income £707k
• THE LAUNCHPAD COLLECTIVE CIO income £213k

Side by side with its peers

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