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Registered charity · London

The Switchback Initiative

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.7m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Throughout London
Website
www.switchback.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Switchback Initiative
Registered
2008

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.7m£1.5m
  • 2024£1.6m£1.4m
  • 2023£1.2m£1.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.2m£1.2m
  • 2021£915k£860k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 15%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A) THE CARE AND RESETTLEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS, AND THOSE AT RISK OF OFFENDING;B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES OF OFFENDERS AND THOSE AT RISK OF RE-OFFENDING SO AS TO ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE AND ASSIST THEM IN AVOIDING RE-OFFENDING.C) TO PROVIDE ADVICE, GUIDANCE, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT TO OFFENDERS AND THOSE AT RISK OF OFFENDING.D) THE PROMOTION OF SUCH OTHER PURPOSES BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Grants received

31 grants · £2,801,908 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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Most recent

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.

10 trustees on the board

2.4y median 1.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

10
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

General Charitable Purposes 10Other Charitable Purposes 10

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 12Other services 4Professional services 4

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.7m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

6.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 9.1 in 2021

24 from 17 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1125100
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 10 JUNE 2008 as amended on 21 Mar 2018 as amended on 06 Oct 2020 as amended on 06 Oct 2020 as amended on 06 Dec 2023
Companies House
Company number 06615923 · Active
Contact on the register
02076508989 · finance@switchback.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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