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Registered charity · Southampton

Launchpad Social Enterprise

Launchpad Social Enterprise is a registered charity (number 1162372) based in Southampton, governed by 7 trustees and chaired by The Right Reverend Philip Ian Mounstephen since 2023. Latest income £5.6m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as WSE (Charity Commission)

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £5.6m (2025)
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Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Wdbf.

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, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Environment/conservation/heritage and 1 more
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.launchpads.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Launchpad Social Enterprise
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£5.6m£5.3m
  • 2024£4.9m£4.6m
  • 2023£3.9m£3.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.3m£2.0m
  • 2021£302k£289k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 68%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1.1.1 TO RELIEVE POVERTY, TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, AND TO RELIEVE NEED IN INDIVIDUALS ARISING FROM THEIR YOUTH, AGE INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES, BY ANY CHARITABLE MEANS AND IN SUCH PLACES IN THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE; AND/OR1.1.2 THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO THE MORAL AND SOCIAL WELFARE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF ALL SUCH RESEARCH; AND/OR1.1.3 THE PROMOTION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF URBAN OR RURAL REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION BY ANY CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE; AND/OR1.1.4 SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Board analysis

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.

6 trustees on the board

3.7y median 3.5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Portfolio (4)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 6General Charitable Purposes 6The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 5Religious Activities 1

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

Education 14Other services 6Finance 2

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£5.6m 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.

2.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.0 in 2021

183 from 166 in 2022
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
1162372
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07 AUG 2014 as amended on 05 Sep 2018 as amended on 26 Oct 2021 as amended on 25 Nov 2021
Companies House
Company number 09166520 · Active
Contact on the register
01962737305 · info@launchpads.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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