2025-04-30-accounts - Empower4success (E4s)

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Registered Company Number: CE021926 (England and Wales) Registered Charity Number: 1189592

EMPOWER4SUCCESS (E4S)

Annual accounts for year Ended 30 April 2025

Empower 4 Success (E4S) Charity Annual Report. - For Year Ended 30 April 2025

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Trustees Annual Report (TAR)	3 - 6
Independent Examiner report	7-8
Statement of Financial Activities	9-10

EMPOWER4SUCCESS (E4S) TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT 2024/25

The trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 30 April 2025. They have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of recommended practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019).

REFERENCE & ADMINSTRATIVE DETAILS.

EMPOWER4SUCCESS (E4S)

Charity No: 1189592

REGISTERED ADDRESS:

5 Brayford Square London, E1 0SG

OFFICE ADDRESS:

MK Tabernacle Building North Street, New Bradwell Milton Keynes MK13 0EE

TRUSTEES’

Names of charity trustees who manage the charity.

Georgi I. David - Chair Chinonye N. Okeem - Trustee Tochi O. Irukwu - Trustee Laura N. Vasiliu - Trustee

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE & MANAGEMENT

The Charity was constituted as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) on 21[st] of May 2020. The Charity is registered in England and Wales with its principal office in England.

OBJECTIVES & ACTIVITIES Objectives:

The main objective of the Charity is to relief unemployment for the benefit of the public in such ways as maybe thought fit, including assistance to find employment. Also, support young people and the disadvantaged, to advance in life through work related activities, including offering support which develops their skills, confidence and capabilities to enable them to participate in society as mature and responsible individuals. Charitable activities:

We offer programmes to support the vulnerable and disadvantaged; help them to become more productive members within the community. Includes long-term unemployment or not in training due to care responsibilities, people struggling with abuse, poverty, or disability - The charity is registered under the Disability Confident

Scheme. Our programmes include;

Programmes that improve mental wellbeing, boost confidence, self-esteem & emotional resilience.
Programmes designed to support NEET groups and school leavers, to keep them gainfully engaged helping curb anti-social behaviour and street crime.
Activities to support students in readiness for work / career path as they exit school.
Parent and family engagement to ensure our participants are supported.
Programmes to empower and orientate ethnic minority groups into the community.
Recruiting and training mentors and volunteers to assist the charity’s activities.
Activities that promote Arts and Culture to support creativity and inclusivity.
Play and learn activities; Learning activities that involve discovery games, music, storytelling, refreshment and more, to make learning exciting for younger groups.
Find You Future Career activities; Mentoring & group activity sessions to help young adults unlock their potential and to take the next step forward.

ACHIEVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE

In 2024/25, E4S continued to structure its services to align with the growing needs and challenges of supporting young people and unemployed within our communities.

As an approved employability support provider for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), we ensure that our deliverables continue to meet the standards and expected outcomes for our stakeholders; partners and participants.

Hybrid activities: We introduced more hybrid activities to engage a wider audience and more effectively reach people within harder-to-reach communities.
Online and in-person support: This year, over 20,000 individuals from diverse backgrounds have benefited from our transformational resources online or participated in our hybrid learning activities. We received very positive feedback reports from programme participants and their families - 99% agreed that their confidence to progress increased considerably after attending the programmes and knowing they can access support to continue progressing is highly encouraging for them.
We continue to expand our activities and programmes to increase flexibility, extending our reach to support a broader range of youth institutions and unemployed groups such as educational institutions and Job Centres.

-------------------------------------------------------- E4S training activities at Youth Institutions & Job Centres recruitments. -----------------------------------------------

We collaborated with faith groups, youth institutions, businesses, local Councils and community groups to expand our community reach, recruit more mentors and foster stronger support for our beneficiaries.
We retained a physical space to allow for in-person / face-to-face mentoring activities and the use of digital resources for those who do not have access to computers, and most importantly, to foster community cohesion and camaraderie for participants that prefer to attend group or in person sessions.

In- person / Face 2 face mentoring.

We attended Job fairs to recruit service users and mentors, while also fostering collaborations with employers to support our groups in transitioning into work activities.

E4s team at a Job fair; Building connections and fostering collaborations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Conclusion

As a charity, we will continue to expand our reach and successfully explore new avenues to support our beneficiaries. Much emphasis remains on supporting people to adjust mentally and emotionally to stem the growing surge of anti-social activities within our communities - We utilize Emotional Intelligence (EI) tools and techniques to combat mental stress and enhance emotional well-being which supports productivity.

The CIO partnered with other charities that offer wellbeing support to the communities (such as local faith ministries and well-being community groups), this ensures we are not only building a stronger economy but safer communities.

We extend our profound gratitude to our funders, partners and dedicated mentors. The charity’s main funders include Milton Keynes Community Foundation and National Lottery Community funds. Other sponsors and support groups include MK Local Council, MK Tabernacle, Google and Microsoft (Non-profit support), including a few private donors. We look forward to your continued support as we work together to build stronger safer communities.

This report has been approved by the Board of Trustees and signed on their behalf by:

The Chair of the Trustees

Empower4success (E4S)

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Charity Name Empower4success (E4S)	Charity Name Empower4success (E4S)	Charity Name Empower4success (E4S)

30thApril 2025	Charity no (if any)	1189592

(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 30[th] April 2025.

Responsibilities and As the charity trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent . I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect,:

the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act; or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
• the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.

Signed: Name: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:		25/02/2026

	Helen Potter

	Institute of Certified Bookkeepers
	7 Wingfield Grove, Middleton,
	Milton Keynes, MK10 9AU

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

Empower4Success (E4S) Statement of Financial Activities For the year ended 30 April 2025

			2025	2024
Incoming Resources	Restricted	Unrestricted	Total £	Total £

Donation and Sponsorships		13800	13800	19,100
Government and Local Grants		49000	49000	67,200
Charitable Activities		5000	5000	10,222
Other		0	0	2,490
Total income	0	67,800	67800	99,012

Expenditure on Charitable Activities

Subsistence		11,300	11300	11,500
TrainingCost		12,100	12100	18,000
Office Expenses		8,300	8300	11,400
Rent		0	0	0
Accountant fees		1450	1450	1,450
Volunteer Costs		5500	5500	7,000
Professional Membershipfees		2020	2020	1,020
Advertising/Publicity,website development		8800	8800	28,500
Separate material of expense
Travel		7,110	7110	4,800
Adminsitration fees		7120	7120	5,040
Total expenses	0	63700	63700	88710

Empower4Sucess (E4S) Balance Sheet As at 30[th] April 2025

Assets Tangible Assets Total Assets Current Assets Cash at bank and in hand Debtors Total Current Assets Creditors: amounts falling due within 1 year Net Current Assets/(liabilities) Total assets less current liabilities Creditors: amounts falling after more than 1 year Total net assets or liabilities Funds of the charity Unrestricted Members’ funds	2025 £ 6,443 6,443 3,000 0 3,000 0 3,000 9,443 2,100 7,343 7,343 7,343	2024 £ 6,443 6,443 6162 0 6,162 0 6,162 12,605 5,055 7,550 7,550 7,550