SPRINGBOARD SUNDERLAND TRUST

Registered charity 519650 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We organize training and volunteering opportunities for people of all age groups. We have a comprehensive network of employer placements in a range of disciplines including, residential and nursing care homes, schools, nurseries, day care centres, print, horticulture and motor vehicle, amongst others. Our mainstream programmes include Foundation Learning, Apprenticeships and Train to Gain.

Objects

3.1.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF CITIZENSHIP AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF VOLUNTEERING INCLUDING (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) IN THE FIELDS OF EDUCATION, SOCIAL CARE AND THE ENVIRONMENT; AND 3.1.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING INCLUDING (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) OF PERSONS WHO, DUE TO THEIR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR OTHERWISE, ARE IN NEED AND UNABLE TO GAIN EMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

Area of benefit: CITY OF SUNDERLAND

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

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sunderland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £426,760 for the year ended 31 July 2025, resulting in a deficit in its general unrestricted funds of £786,281. The trustees acknowledge a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern due to a material unsecured creditor of £1,048,238 with no formal repayment terms. Despite these liabilities, the trustees believe the trust is well placed to manage its risks and have adopted the going concern basis of accounting.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Torgersens. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 4 (FY2025).
• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → material uncertainty (FY2025).

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

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Springboard (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Steve Reay — Chief Executive (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-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN COLIN WILSONchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Denise Wilson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Graham Burt
• Jonathan Nicholson

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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 ADVENTURE SUNDERLAND LTD.

• ADVENTURE SUNDERLAND LTD income £666k
• THE SPRINGBOARD CHARITY income £3.7m
• TYNE NORTH TRAINING LIMITED income £1.5m
• SUNDERLAND ENGINEERING TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £2.7m
• The Iron Foundation income £479k
• PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES AND SUPPORT income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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