Project Possible
Charity Number: 1069608
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
Project Possible is a Christian charity that provides the spark for overlooked people to get their poverty fighting ventures off the ground. We work through local partners globally to establish small spark projects that provide funds and mentoring to turn their ideas into reality. Undergirding these ventures we run hands on early-stage nurturing projects providing skills training and education.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024
Total income: £399,797
Total expenditure: £642,474
People
6 Trustee(s)
2 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making
What the charity does:
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
Who the charity helps:
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
Where the charity operates:
- Buckinghamshire
- Bangladesh
- Bolivia
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Ecuador
- India
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Nepal
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- South Africa
- Uganda
Governance
Registration history:
- 19 May 1998: Standard registration
- 05 November 2019: Funds received from 1068004 THE ACORN FOUNDATION
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
- ROPE (Previous name)
- ROPE CHARITABLE TRUST (Previous name)
- ROPE CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED (Previous name)
Company number:
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- Investment
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
Land and property:
This charity owns and/or leases land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
6 Trustee(s)
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| Jonathan Michael Goldthorpe | Chair | 05 May 2023 |
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| Ruth Helen Hampton | Trustee | 15 May 2025 |
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| Andrew Robert Patterson | Trustee | 25 April 2024 |
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| Illia Djadi | Trustee | 18 May 2023 |
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| KAYE LORRAINE LILLYCROP | Trustee | 23 March 2018 |
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| ANTONY MARK HOUGHTON | Trustee |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2020 | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £638.24k | £705.71k | £469.35k | £518.63k | £399.80k | |
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Total expenditure | £840.57k | £1.30m | £861.04k | £722.70k | £642.47k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | £1.85k | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £536.25k | £620.76k | N/A | £423.59k | N/A | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £0 | £0 | N/A | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £0 | £0 | N/A | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Endowments | £0 | £0 | N/A | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Investment | £101.99k | £83.10k | N/A | £95.04k | N/A | |
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Income - Other | £0 | £1.85k | N/A | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Legacies | £115.97k | £194.00k | N/A | £79.74k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £697.62k | £1.15m | N/A | £614.58k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £142.96k | £151.62k | N/A | £108.12k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £6.60k | £6.60k | N/A | £6.70k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £487.38k | £942.16k | N/A | £329.59k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £24.78k | £24.28k | N/A | £21.86k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Other | £0 | £0 | N/A | £0 | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 27 January 2025 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 27 January 2025 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 29 January 2024 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 29 January 2024 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 25 January 2023 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 25 January 2023 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 24 January 2022 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 24 January 2022 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2020 | 15 January 2021 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2020 | 15 January 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |