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Registered charity (CIO) · London

Ambition, Aspire, Achieve

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £986k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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

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Public contracts won

1 contract

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.

  • Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme 2026 Buyer: London Borough of Newham Value not published Date not published Source: Find a Tender

    The Department of Education (DfE) has confirmed that all Local Authorities in England will receive funding to co-ordinate a local Holiday Activities and Food Programme (HAF) during Easter, Summer and Christmas school holidays of the 2026/27…

About

What it does
Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Recreation
Where
Barking And Dagenham, Hackney, Haringey, Havering and more
Website
www.theaaazone.com (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£986k£951k
  • 2024£1.2m£889k
  • 2023£932k£814k
Earlier years
  • 2022£835k£748k
  • 2021£836k£644k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 36% · Government grants 12%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:- TO ADVANCE IN LIFE, RELIEVE NEEDS OF AND HELP YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH:A. THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES PROVIDED IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE, DESIGNED TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS OF LIFE;B. PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.- TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY GROW TO FULL MATURITY A INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY. - TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO THE AGE OF 23 LIVING IN EAST LONDON (BARKING AND DAGENHAM, HACKNEY, HARINGEY, HAVERING, NEWHAM, REDBRIDGE, TOWER HAMLETS,WALTHAM FOREST) AND WEST ESSEX BUT PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AD ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:A. ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;B. ADVANCING EDUCATION;C. RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT;D. PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY ON THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.

Grants received

33 grants · £939,595 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.

Top funders

Most recent

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.

11 trustees on the board

9.2y median 10y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (3)

3
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 11The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 10Recreation 9Arts/culture/heritage/science 1General Charitable Purposes 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Health and social care 7Education 3Property 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£986k 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.

4.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 5.8 in 2021

51 from 27 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.
48%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1167816
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Foundation Registered 23 Jun 2016 as amended on 15 Sep 2020
Contact on the register
02075114253 · jonny@theaaazone.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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