## **Raphael Rowe Foundation**
**Charity No. 1203758**
**Company No.**
**Trustee's Report and Unaudited Accounts**
**30 September 2025**
**Raphael Rowe Foundation Contents**
||Pages|
|---|---|
|Trustees Annual Report|2|
|Statement of Financial Activities|3|
|Summary Income and Expenditure Account|4|
|Balance Sheet|5|
|Statement of Cashflows|6|
|Notes to Financial Statements|7 – 12|
|Detailed Statement of Financial Activities|13 - 14|
Page 1
**Raphael Rowe Foundation Trustees Annual Report**
The trustee, who is also a director of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, presents their report with the unaudited financial statements of the charity for the year ended 30 September 2025.
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
## **Company No.**
## **Charity No. 1203758**
## **Registered Office**
4th Floor 18 St. Cross Street London EC1N 8UN
## **Director and Trustee**
The Director of the charitable company are its Trustee for the purposes of charity law. The following Director and Trustee served during the year:
R. Rowe
## **Accountants**
In The Black Ltd 124 City Road London EC1V 2NX
The CEO is responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. The CEO is also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime as set out in Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 and in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102).
Signed on behalf of the board
R. Rowe Trustee 17 July 202 6
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**Raphael Rowe Foundation Statement of Financial Activities**
## **for the year ended 30 September 2025**
|**Notes**
**Income and endowments**
**from:**
Donations and legacies
4
**Total**
**Expenditure on:**
Raising funds
5
Charitable activities
6
Other
7
**Total**
Net gains on investments
**Net income**
Transfers between funds
**Net income before other**
**gains/(losses)**
**Other gains and losses**
**Net movement in funds**
**Reconciliation of funds:**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
29,718|**Total funds**
**2025**
**£**
29,718|**Total funds**
**2024**
**£**
11,575|
|---|---|---|---|
||29,718
-
13,378
14,029|29,718
-
13,378
14,029|11,575
53
3,495
8,027|
||27,407
-|27,407
-|11,575
-|
||2,311
-|2,311
-|-
-|
||2,311|2,311|-|
||2,311
(525)|2,311
(525)|-
(525)|
||1,786|1,786|(525)|
Page 3
**Raphael Rowe Foundation Summary Income and Expenditure Account**
## **for the year ended 30 September 2025**
|Income
**Gross income for the year**
Expenditure
**Total expenditure for the year**
Net income before tax for the year
**Net income for the year**|**2025**
**£**
29,718
29,718
27,407
27,407
2,311
2,311|**2024**
**£**
11,575|
|---|---|---|
|||11,575|
|||11,575|
|||11,575|
|||-|
|||-|
Page 4
**Raphael Rowe Foundation Balance Sheet**
## **at 30 September 2025**
|**Company No.**
**Notes**
**2025**
**£**
**Current assets**
Cash at bank and in hand
13,543
13,543
**Creditors:**Amount falling due within one year
8
(11,757)
**Net current assets/(liabilities)**
1,786
**Total assets less current liabilities**
1,786
**Net assets/(liabilities) excluding pension asset or liability**
1,786
**Total net assets/(liabilities)**
1,786
**The funds of the charity**
**Restricted funds**
9
**Unrestricted funds**
9
General funds
1,786
1,786
**Reserves**
9
**Total funds**
1,786|**2024**
**£**
11,452|
|---|---|
||11,452
(11,977)|
||(525)
(525)|
||(525)|
||(525)|
||(525)|
||(525)|
||(525)|
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions of Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
For the year ended 30 September 2025 the company was entitled to exemption under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
Approved by the board on 30 September 2025
And signed on its behalf by:
R. Rowe Trustee 30 September 2025
Page 5
**Raphael Rowe Foundation Statement of Cash flows**
## **for the year ended 30 September 2025**
|**Cash flows from operating activities**
**Net income per Statement of Financial Activities**
**Adjustments for:**
(Decrease)/Increase in trade and other payables
**Net cash provided by operating activities**
**Net cash from investing activities**
**Net cash from financing activities**
**Net increase in cash and cash equivalents**
**Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year**
**Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year**
**Components of cash and cash equivalents**
Cash and bank balances|**2025**
**£**
2,311
(220)
2,091
-
-
2,091
11,452
13,543
13,543
13,543|**2024**
**£**
-
11,977|
|---|---|---|
|||11,977|
|||-|
||||
|||-|
||||
|||11,977|
|||-|
|||11,977|
||||
|||11,452|
||||
|||11,452|
Page 6
**Raphael Rowe Foundation Notes to the Accounts**
## **for the year ended 30 September 2025**
- 1 **Accounting policies**
## **Basis of preparation**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with 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 2015) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.
## **Change in basis of accounting or to previous accounts**
There has been no change to the accounting policies (valuation rules and method of accounting) since last year and no changes have been made to accounts for previous years.
## **Fund accounting**
- Unrestricted funds These are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objects of the charity.
- Designated funds These are unrestricted funds earmarked by the trustees for particular purposes. Revaluation funds These are unrestricted funds which include a revaluation reserve representing the restatement of investment assets at their market values.
- Restricted funds These are available for use subject to restrictions imposed by the donor or through terms of an appeal.
## **Income**
- Recognition of Income is included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when the charity income becomes entitled to, and virtually certain to receive, the income and the amount of the income can be measured with sufficient reliability.
- Income with related Where income has related expenditure the income and related expenditure is expenditure reported gross in the SoFA. Donations and Voluntary income received by way of grants, donations and gifts is included in the legacies the SoFA when receivable and only when the Charity has unconditional entitlement to the income.
- Tax reclaims on Income from tax reclaims is included in the SoFA at the same time as the donations and gifts gift/donation to which it relates. Donated services These are only included in income (with an equivalent amount in expenditure) and facilities where the benefit to the Charity is reasonably quantifiable, measurable and material.
Volunteer help The value of any volunteer help received is not included in the accounts. Investment income This is included in the accounts when receivable. Gains/(losses) on This includes any gain or loss resulting from revaluing investments to market value revaluation of fixed at the end of the year. assets Gains/(losses) on This includes any gain or loss on the sale of investments. investment assets
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**Raphael Rowe Foundation Notes to the Accounts**
## **Expenditure**
- Recognition of Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis. Expenditure includes any VAT which expenditure cannot be fully recovered, and is reported as part of the expenditure to which it relates.
- Expenditure on These comprise the costs associated with attracting voluntary income, fundraising raising funds trading costs and investment management costs. Expenditure on These comprise the costs incurred by the Charity in the delivery of its activities and charitable activities services in the furtherance of its objects, including the making of grants and governance costs.
- Grants payable All grant expenditure is accounted for on an actual paid basis plus an accrual for grants that have been approved by the trustees at the end of the year but not yet paid.
- Governance costs These include those costs associated with meeting the constitutional and statutory requirements of the Charity, including any audit/independent examination fees, costs linked to the strategic management of the Charity, together with a share of other administration costs.
- Other expenditure These are support costs not allocated to a particular activity.
## **Taxation**
The charity is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities.
## **Tax reclaims on donations and gifts**
Income from tax reclaims is included in the SoFA at the same time as the gift/donation to which it relates.
## **Trade and other debtors**
Trade and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount due after any trade discount offered. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid net of any trade discounts due.
## **Cash and cash equivalents**
Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash at bank and on hand, demand deposits with banks and other short-term highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less and bank overdrafts. In the statement of financial position, bank overdrafts are shown within borrowings or current liabilities. In the Statement of Cash Flows, cash and cash equivalents are shown net of bank overdrafts that are repayable on demand and form an integral part of the company's cash management.
## **Trade and other creditors**
Short term creditors are measured at the transaction price. Other creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or estimated reliably. Creditors and provisions are normally recognised at their settlement amount after allowing for any trade discounts due.
Page 8
**Raphael Rowe Foundation Notes to the Accounts**
## **Research and development**
Expenditure on research and development is written off in the year in which it is incurred.
## **Volunteer help**
The value of any volunteer help received is not included in the accounts.
## **Foreign currencies**
Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in currencies other than the functional currency of the charity are translated at the rates of exchange prevailing at the end of the reporting period. Transactions in currencies other than the functional currency of the charity are recorded at the rate of exchange on the date that the transaction occurred.
All exchange differences are are taken into account in arriving at net income/expenditure.
## **Receipt of donated goods, facilities and services**
All donated goods, facilities and services received are recognised within incoming resources and expenditure at an estimate of the value to the charity.
## 2 **Company status**
The company is a private company limited by guarantee and consequently does not have share capital.
Page 9
**Raphael Rowe Foundation**
## **Notes to the Accounts**
## 3 **Statement of Financial Activities - prior year**
|**Income and endowments from:**
Donations and legacies
**Total**
**Expenditure on:**
Raising funds
Charitable activities
Other
**Total**
**Reconciliation of funds:**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**
4
**Income from donations and legacies**
Received from individual
donors.
5
**Expenditure on raising funds**
_Costs of generating voluntary_
_income_
Received from individual
donors.|**Unrestricted**
**£**
29,718
29,718|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**2024**
**£**
11,575
11,575
53
1,582
9,940
11,575
(525)
(525)
**Total**
**2025**
**£**
29,718
29,718
**Total**
**2025**
**£**
-
-|**Total funds**
**2024**
**£**
11,575|
|---|---|---|---|
||||11,575
53
1,582
9,940|
||||11,575
(525)|
||||(525)|
||||**Total**
**2024**
**£**
11,575|
||||11,575|
||||**Total**
**2024**
**£**
53|
||||53|
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**Raphael Rowe Foundation**
## **Notes to the Accounts**
## 6 **Expenditure on charitable activities**
||_Expenditure on charitable_|
|---|---|
||_activities_|
||_Governance costs_|
|7|**Other expenditure**|
||Consultantcosts|
||General administrative costs|
||Legal and professional costs|
||Travel costs (UK)|
|**Unrestricted**
**£**
13,378
13,378
**Unrestricted**
**£**
2,127
8,349
2,095
1,458
14,029|**Total**
**2025**
**£**
13,378
13,378
**Total**
**2025**
**£**
2,127
8,349
2,095
1,458
14,029|**Total**
**2024**
**£**
1,582|
|---|---|---|
|||1,582|
|||**Total**
**2024**
**£**
2,800
2,785
2,445
1,910|
|||9,940|
|8**Creditors:**
amounts falling due within one
year
Other creditors
Accruals|**2025**
**£**
11,137
620
11,757|**2024**
**£**
11,137
840|
|---|---|---|
|||11,977|
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**Raphael Rowe Foundation Notes to the Accounts**
## 9 **Movement in funds**
|**Restricted funds:**
**Unrestricted funds:**
**General funds**
**Total** **funds**
10**Analysis** **of** **net** **assets** **between**
**funds**
Net current assets
11**Reconciliation** **of** **net** **debt**
Cash and cash equivalents
Net debt|**At 1 October**
**2024**
(525)
(525)|**Incoming**
**resources**
**(including**
**other**
**gains/losses**
**)**
**£**
29,718
29,718
**At 1 October**
**2024**
**£**|**Resources**
**expended**
**£**
(27,407)
(27,407)
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
1,786
1,786
**Cash flows**
**£**|**At 30**
**September**
**2025**
**£**
1,786|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||1,786|
|||||**Total**
**£**
1,786|
|||||1,786|
|||||**At 30**
**September**
**2025**
**£**|
|||11,452|2,091|13,543|
|||11,452
11,452|2,091
2,091|13,543|
|||||13,543|
1 2 **Related party disclosures** _**Controlling party**_
The company is limited by guarantee and has no share capital; thus no single party controls the company.
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**Raphael Rowe Foundation Detailed Statement of Financial Activities**
## **for the year ended 30 September 2025**
|**Income and endowments from:**
Donations and legacies
Received from individual donors.
**Total income and endowments**
**Expenditure on:**
Costs of generating donations and
legacies
Received from individual donors.
**Total of expenditure on raising**
**funds**
Charitable activities
**Total of expenditure on charitable**
**activities**
Consultantscosts
Consultants
Motor and travel costs
Travel and subsistence
General administrative costs,
including depreciation and
amortisation
Bank charges
Stationery and printing
Subscriptions
Sundry expenses
Telephone, fax and broadband
Legal and professional costs
Accountancy and bookkeeping
Legalfees
**Total of expenditure of other costs**
**Total expenditure**
Net gains on investments|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**2025**
**£**
29,718
29,718
29,718
-
-
-
13,378
13,378
13,378
2,127
2,127
1,458
1,458
219
14
6,771
386
959
8,349
1,940
155
2,095
21,979
27,407
-|**Total funds**
**2025**
**£**
29,718
29,718
29,718
-
-
-
13,378
13,378
13,378
2,127
2,127
1,458
1,458
219
14
6,771
386
959
8,349
1,940
155
2,095
21,979
27,407
-|**Total funds**
**2024**
**£**
11,575|
|---|---|---|---|
||||11,575|
||||11,575
53|
||||53|
||||53
1,582|
||||1,582|
||||1,582
2,800|
||||2,800|
||||1,910|
||||1,910|
||||22
236
2,527
-
-|
||||2,785|
||||2,380
65|
||||2,445|
|||||
||||9,940|
||||11,575
-|
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**Raphael Rowe Foundation Detailed Statement of Financial Activities**
|**Net income**
**Net income before other**
**gains/(losses)**
Other Gains
**Net movement in funds**
**Reconciliation of funds:**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**|2,311
2,311
-
2,311
(525)
1,786|2,311
2,311
-
2,311
(525)
1,786|-|
|---|---|---|---|
||||-
-|
||||-|
||||(525)|
||||(525)|
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## **Raphael Rowe Foundation Annual Report**
**2024-2025**
**Transforming Prison Environments Through Dignity, Skills & Human Rights**
CHARITY NUMBER: 1203758
## **CONTENTS**
**MISSION - VISION - PILLARS - VALUES**
**FOUNDERS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY**
**2024-2026 IMPACT SUMMARY**
## **PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS**
**Moldova Indonesia United Kingdon UN SDG Alignment**
## **GLOBAL INITIATIVES:**
**Women’s Health: The Red Line Project Digital Life Skills**
**RESEARCH & ADVOCACY**
**DONOR & VOLUNTEER IMPACT**
**FINANCIAL OVERVIEW**
**STRATEGIC PRIORTIES FOR 2026**
**GOVERNANCE & LEADERSHIP**
**CONCLUSION**
## **MISSION**
To work with prison systems throughout the world and inspire them to abolish dehumanising, degrading, and dangerous practices, placing greater emphasis on health, education, and rehabilitation.
## **VISION**
To end the dehumanisation of people in prison and create safer, fairer societies through humane, dignified, and rehabilitative prison systems.
## **PILLARS**
## **Rethink.**
Inspire institutions to reconsider harmful practices and adopt approaches rooted in dignity and human rights.
## **Rehumanise.**
Ensure every person in prison is treated as a human being with fundamental rights.
## **Reintegrate.**
Equip people in custody with tools, skills, and opportunities to rebuild their lives.
## **VALUES**
## **Passionate.**
We care about what we do, and we are determined to make positive and permanent changes **Practical.**
We understand that environments shape people. Prisons can further damage the health and life chances of those within their walls. We provide practical solutions, and evidence the impact of our work.
## **Authentic.**
We tell it like it is. We are real. We also make real changes, including changing the narrative around people in prison.
## **Empathetic.**
We do not reduce people in prison to their crimes, we see them as human beings. Human beings who, with the right support, have the capability to positively transform their lives
## **Courageous.**
We have the strength to stand alongside, and stand up for, those who are often feared and shamed, and compel society to rethink its preconceptions and prejudices.
## **FOUNDERS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY**
I know what it means to be locked away and forgotten. I spent 12 years of my life imprisoned for a crime I did not commit. During that time, I learned something that has stayed with me ever since, prisons don’t fail because the people inside are beyond hope, they fail when humanity is removed from the system.
The Raphael Rowe Foundation exists because I believe, from lived experience, that most people can change when they are given dignity, purpose, and opportunity. I’ve seen what happens when individuals are trusted to take responsibility, to learn skills, and to contribute positively, not as a reward, but as a recognition of their humanity.
This annual report reflects a defining year for the Foundation. In 2025, our work reached prisons in Europe and Southeast Asia, directly improving the lives of more than 1,200 people in prisons. We transformed unsafe, neglected environments into places of wellbeing. We trained prisoners, serving short sentences and life sentences to rebuild gyms, sleeping areas, and communal spaces inside their own prisons. In doing so, we didn’t just improve physical conditions, we changed mindsets, restored pride, and created safer, more constructive environments for everyone.
What sets our work apart is that it doesn’t begin with theory, it begins with people. We listen. We co‐create. And we support prisons to do better by empowering those who live within them. In 2026, we are expanding the scope of our impact in three key ways. First, through the launch of The Red Line Project, addressing the long‐overlooked issue of menstrual health for women in prison, a basic dignity that has been ignored for far too long. Second, by developing a digital life-skills platform, designed by people who understand prison not from the outside looking in, but from lived experience inside. And third, by strengthening our international work, improving health outcomes for both staff and prisoners in Lesotho, recognising that wellbeing inside prisons is integral to safer societies. Alongside this, we continue to advocate for Street Racket to become part of every prison’s physical and mental wellbeing provision, a simple, inclusive tool with the power to transform engagement, connection, and health.
None of this happens without support. Every programme in this report is proof of what can be achieved when belief is matched with action and when resources are directed toward solutions that work. The challenges facing prison systems across the world are significant, but they are not insurmountable.This report is not just a record of what we’ve done. It is an invitation to rethink justice, to invest in dignity, and to recognise that safer societies begin with treating people as human beings. Thank you to everyone who has stood with us. Together, we are proving that change is not only possible it is already happening.
## **FOUNDER & DIRECTOR**
## **2024-2025 IMPACT SUMMARY**
## **MOLDOVA**
300+ prisoners benefit daily from a fully renovated gymnasium at Rezina Penitentiary No.17.
15 prisoners (including 10 lifers) trained in welding, painting, plastering, decorating, and site safety.
Survey of 150+ prisoners showed:
- 82–85% excitement to use the new gym
- 76% highly recommend the project
- Wellbeing improvement rated 6.5–6.8/7
## **INDONESIA**
- 20 inmates trained in welding and construction at Mojokerto Class IIB.
- 9 permanent bunk beds built and installed, improving living conditions for 900+ prisoners. Significant improvements in cleanliness, organisation, safety, and sleep.
## **GLOBAL WOMEN’S HEALTH**
- Launch of ‘The Red Line Project’, a menstrual‐health initiative, beginning with needs assessments in Moldova and the Solomon Islands.
## **DIGITAL LIFE SKILLS APP**
- A lived‐experience‐led digital learning platform for delivery via secure in‐cell devices. 2025 saw development, validation, and planning for a 30‐person pilot at HMP YOI ISIS.
## **UNITED KINGDOM**
- Filmmaking Workshop Supported 12 young offenders to produce their own documentary content, building confidence, technical skills and teamwork, with the final production set to be broadcast on HMP/YOI Isis’s in-cell TV network.
## **PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS**
## **MOLDOVA**
## **Rezina Penitentiary No.17 – Gymnasium Transformation**
A once dangerous and neglected gym was completely transformed into a safe, functional wellbeing space used daily by 300+ people in prison.
## **Prisoner‐Led Renovation**
The project was delivered by 15 trained prisoners, including 10 serving life sentences who received hands-on vocational skills training in:
- Welding
- Plastering
- Painting & decorating Site safety
## **Impact**
A survey of 150+ prisoners and staff demonstrated:
- 82–85% excitement and eagerness to use the new gym
- 76% strong recommendation
- Wellbeing improvement rated 6.5–6.8 / 7
The gym now represents a rehabilitative anchor point for daily routine, physical health, and improved prison culture.
## **INDONESIA**
## **Mojokerto Class IIB – Bunk‐Bed & Welding Programme**
Delivered in partnership with the Second Chance Foundation and Indonesian prison authorities, this programme tackled overcrowding while building vocational skills.
## **Key Achievements**
- 20 inmates trained in welding and construction
- 6 professional trainers employed from the community
- 9 dormitories fitted with permanent bunk beds
- 900+ prisoners benefitted from improved space, hygiene, and sleep quality
## **PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS Continued**
## **UNITED KINGDOM**
In partnership with Second Chance Films, the charity Untold and HMP/YOI Isis, we delivered a documentary filmmaking programme that provided participants with hands-on experience in storytelling, camera operation, production planning and video editing. Through a series of practical workshops, participants developed technical skills, confidence, teamwork and an understanding of opportunities within the creative industries. The programme took participants through the full production process, from concept development and filming to post-production and editing.
This pilot project engaged prisoners in the creation of an original documentary centred on an interview with our founder, Raphael Rowe. Participants worked collaboratively alongside professional filmmakers, gaining valuable industry insight while developing transferable communication and problem-solving skills. To support ongoing learning and reflection, each participant received a copy of Raphael's autobiography, Notorious.
Participants who completed the programme were recognised through participation certificates.
## **Outcome:**
- Supported 12 young offenders to develop practical filmmaking, storytelling and editing skills through a hands-on documentary production programme, culminating in the creation of original content that will be broadcast across HMP/YOI Isis’s in-cell television network, giving participants a platform to share their work with the wider prison community.
## **UN SDG ALIGNMENT**
Our projects advances:
- SDG 3 – Good Health & Wellbeing
- SDG 10 – Reduced Inequalities
- SDG 16 – Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions
## **GLOBAL INITIATIVES:**
## **Research, Innovation & Future Projects**
## **WOMEN’S HEALTH: THE RED LINE PROJECT (LAUNCHED 2026)**
The Red Line Project is a global initiative addressing menstrual dignity in women’s prisons.
## **2025–26 PROGRESS**
- Completion of baseline menstrual needs assessments
- WASH (Water, Sanitation & Hygiene) condition mapping
- Partnership scoping with: EcoFemme, PERIOD., Days for Girls, HerFlow
## **2026 ROADMAP**
- Multi‐country research
- Pilot distribution of sustainable products
- Creation of a global menstrual health curriculum tailored to secure environments
- This initiative will embed menstrual dignity within prison wellbeing and rehabilitation systems.
## **DIGITAL LIFE SKILLS APP:**
The Digital Life Skills App is RRF’s flagship innovation: a secure in-cell learning platform codesigned by people with lived experience to help individuals in custody build the knowledge, confidence and practical skills needed for successful rehabilitation and resettlement.
## **Why This Matters**
Many individuals spend up to 22 hours a day locked in their cells, with very limited access to education or purposeful activity. This problem is particularly acute at HMP YOI ISIS, where a shortage of movement, staff, and engagement opportunities has restricted learning for young men.
## **What the App Provides**
- Trauma‐informed learning modules
- Numeracy, communication, and digital literacy training
- Job‐readiness and employability skills
- Structured progress tracking and micro‐certification
- Access on secure in‐cell device
## **Co‐Designed With Lived Experience**
Every component of the platform has been shaped by individuals who have lived through imprisonment, ensuring:
- Relevance
- Authenticity
- Engagement from learners often excluded from traditional education
## **2025–26 PILOT AT HMP ISIS**
A pilot for 30 young men will evaluate:
- Engagement and learning retention
- Skill acquisition
- Confidence building
- Readiness for release
This represents digital rehabilitation model with potential for national and international adoption.
## **RESEARCH & ADVOCACY**
In 2025, RRF enhanced its evidence‐based approach through:
- large‐scale surveys in Moldova and Indonesia
- impact assessments on wellbeing and rehabilitation
- global menstrual‐health research
- development of digital‐learning engagement frameworks
This data strengthens our projects and informs our long‐term strategy.
## **DONOR & VOLUNTEER IMPACT**
The ongoing support from our volunteers and donors is vital to our success. In 2024-25, numerous volunteers dedicated their time across various projects, including prison-based activities, research, and fundraising efforts. They all enabled:
- Gym renovation materials in Moldova
- Welding training and construction tools in Indonesia
- Survey research and evaluation
- Menstrual health needs assessments
- Development of the Digital Life Skills App
- Social media content creation, campaign support and digital engagement to raise awareness of our work and expand our reach
Our progress is a direct result of volunteer commitment and donor generosity.
## **FINANCIAL OVERVIEW**
## **2025 Expenditure Focus**
- Moldova gym renovation Indonesia bunk‐bed project
During the year ended 30 September 2025, the Raphael Rowe Foundation used the funds it raised to deliver on its mission and support charitable activities aimed at creating opportunities, promoting social inclusion and supporting people in prison. Total income for the year was £29,718 and total expenditure was £27,407, resulting in a surplus of £2,311. Unrestricted funds at year-end stood at £1,786.
While the Foundation ended the year in a positive financial position, reserves remain modest and highlight the continuing need to secure additional funding and build long-term financial sustainability. The trustees remain committed to ensuring that resources are managed responsibly and directed towards achieving the charity’s objectives.
The full unaudited accounts for the year ended 30 September 2025 can be viewed on request.
## **2026 Funding Needs**
- £5,000–£7,000 for commercial‐grade gym equipment in Moldova
- £95,000–£160,000 to complete the Digital Life Skills App pilot
- £5,000-£10,000 for The Red Line Project.
- £5,000-£10,000 to expand Filmmaking Workshops
- £5,000-£10,000 for Spitnight Workshop
- Core funding
## **FUNDING FOR STRATEGIC FUNDRAISING INITIATIVES**
In 2025/26, RRF developed a new Case for Support, a vital tool for securing sustainable funding and clearly communicating the scale of the challenges we tackle and the impact of our projects. A crucial reality: RRF currently has no paid staff, relying entirely on volunteers to run international projects, partnerships, and evaluation, a model that cannot sustain long‐term growth. To continue delivering high‐quality global projects, RRF urgently needs core funding to support:
- Administrative capacity
- Essential staffing
- Project management Fundraising and partnerships
Strengthening our internal capacity is essential for expanding our impact. A dedicated grant writer will be needed throughout 2026, and securing core operational funding is now a top strategic priority for the year ahead.
## **STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FOR 2026**
In 2026, the Raphael Rowe Foundation will focus on a bold, practical, and internationally relevant set of priorities that build directly on the momentum achieved throughout 2025. These priorities strengthen our commitment to dignity, rehabilitation, education, and evidence‐driven innovation across global prison systems.
## **GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP**
The Raphael Rowe Foundation is overseen by a Board of Trustees, each bringing diverse expertise in criminal justice reform, human rights advocacy, nonprofit management, and finance.
## **THE CURRENT TRUSTEES OF THE FOUNDATION ARE:**
- Jonty Camsey (Chair)
- Alex South
- Andrew Morris
- Kate Ruby
- Richard Thunder
## **CONCLUSION**
2025 marked a year of bold growth and meaningful transformation for the Raphael Rowe Foundation. From Moldova to Indonesia, and across our endless initiatives, we proved that lived‐experience leadership, human‐centred innovation, and a relentless belief in people can drive real change in some of the world’s most challenging environments. This year, we didn’t just pilot ideas , we showed it can be done. We transformed a dangerous, forgotten gym into wellbeing hub; reduced overcrowding through prisoner‐built bunk beds; discovered essential needs such as menstrual dignity for women; and are in the process of designing a digital learning tool for people locked in their cells for up to 22 hours a day. Prisoners skills development and participation in documentary filming workshops. We showed we have the guts to do it and the will to succeed. One prison at a time.
I also need to be honest. Much of this progress has been carried on unpaid shoulders. As Founder and Director, I’ve personally driven the operational, strategic, and fundraising work needed to make these programmes a reality. And alongside me, our small, dedicated team have given their time, energy, and expertise without compensation, simply because they believe in this mission as deeply as I do. This level of personal commitment, while rooted in passion and purpose, is not sustainable. If we are to protect what we’ve built and grow it we must now secure core funding for staff, administration, and organisational stability. Our mission remains clear and unwavering: turning prisons into opportunity; restoring dignity; improving prison cultures; and opening pathways toward a second chance. To keep building on what we’ve achieved and to reach the people who are still waiting for change we must strengthen our foundation, invest in capacity, and move toward a stable, sustainable future.
**2026 is the year we secure the organisation behind the impact so our work can endure, expand, and continue changing lives.**