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Registered charity · London

Business Launchpad

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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
Education/training
Where
Throughout London
Website
www.businesslaunchpad.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Business Launchpad Limited
Registered
1988

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.5m£1.5m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.3m
  • 2023£1.2m£1.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.2m£1.3m
  • 2021£1.2m£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 6%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE PROMOTION OF WELFARE OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE GREATER LONDON AREA AND PRIMARILY IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH, AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION TRAINING AND RESOURCES FOR SUCH PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES ARE IN NEED OR UNABLE TO GAIN EMPLOYMENT.

Grants received

9 grants · £136,494 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

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £44,800
  • Walcot Foundation · £37,866 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £16,547 (2 grants)
  • London Borough of Southwark · £14,966
  • The Wimbledon Foundation · £10,000

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.

8 trustees on the board

4.6y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

8
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 8

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

Other services 8Property 8Construction 3

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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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£1.5m 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.

25.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 57.3 in 2021

18 from 22 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
299599
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13/03/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/03/1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/01/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/03/2004AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 15/07/1988
Companies House
Company number 02110648 · Active
Contact on the register
02085167700 · info@businesslaunchpad.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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