Registered charity · London
Making the Leap
- 9 trustees
- Income £1.6m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Sandra Bowker CBEChair · since 2023
- Andy BoucherTrustee
- Catherine OsaigbovoTrustee · since 2024
- Dipi Kaur MckernanTrustee · since 2024
- Dominic ScottTrustee · since 2022
- Emma Canavan JaneTrustee · since 2024
- James Alexander Hamilton SmithTrustee · since 2025
- John Gary WilliamsTrustee · since 2019
- Laurence MeehanTrustee · since 2022
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
Do you help lead this organisation? Set up its network · How it works
About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- Throughout London
- Website
- www.mtl.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Making the Leap
- Registered
- 1996
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.6m£2.0m
- 2024£1.7m£1.8m
- 2023£1.5m£1.5m
Earlier years
- 2022£1.8m£1.2m
- 2021£1.5m£875k
Charitable objects
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN LONDON AND ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THOSE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO MAY BE UNEMPLOYED BY RELIEVING POVERTY AND DISTRESS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ADVICE INFORMATION TRAINING AND EDUCATION
Board analysis for researchers
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
9 trustees on the board
- Sandra Bowker CBE Chair since 2023
- Andy Boucher
- Catherine Osaigbovo since 2024
- Dipi Kaur Mckernan since 2024
- Dominic Scott since 2022
- Emma Canavan Jane since 2024
- James Alexander Hamilton Smith since 2025
- John Gary Williams since 2019
- Laurence Meehan since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- John Gary Williams since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Andy Boucher
- Catherine Osaigbovo since 2024
- Dipi Kaur Mckernan since 2024
- Dominic Scott since 2022
- Emma Canavan Jane since 2024
- James Alexander Hamilton Smith since 2025
- John Gary Williams since 2019
- Laurence Meehan since 2022
Portfolio (1)
- Sandra Bowker CBE Chair since 2023
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
5.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 8.7 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1058648
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 21/02/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/09/1996AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 03/12/2013
- Companies House
- Company number 03162045 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02089621900 · info@mtl.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Report an issue · How we handle data