SHUMEI EIKO LIMITED

Registered charity 1002647 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHAUCER COLLEGE CANTERBURY

The principal objects and activities of the charity, as set out in the Memorandum and Articles of Association,are to advance the education of young persons and mature students and in particular,but without prejudice to,persons of Japanese origin and to advance the education of the public in all aspects of Japanese culture.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group generated a surplus of £291,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a previous deficit. However, the actual level of free reserves was reported as minus £98,000, which is below the Trustees' stated policy target of three months' expenditure. The Trustees acknowledge ongoing uncertainties in the market and rely on continued support from the Foundation to maintain going concern status through December 2026.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: SHUMEI EIKO PROPERTY LIMITED Companies House 02388648
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02562565

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Prof. Mitsutoshi Horii — Principal (source)
• Miles Shuttleworth — Operations Director (source)
• Alexander Robinson — Director of Studies & DSL (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• OSHIRO, Yoshinori, Professor — director, appointed 05/01/2026not on trustee list
• KAWASHIMA, Atsuo, Professor — director, appointed 10/06/2025on trustee list
• CRAVEN, John Anthony George, Professor — director, appointed 16/04/2015on trustee list
• TODD, Patrick Anthony, Councillor — director, appointed 12/04/2012on trustee list
• HORII, Mitsutoshi, Dr — director, appointed 01/04/2011not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~36.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DR MITSU HORII
• KOKI KAWASHIMA
• PROFESSOR JOHN ANTHONY GEORGE CRAVEN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Patrick Anthony Todd · trustee of 3 other charities
• Professor Atsuo Kawashima

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE JAPAN SOCIETY.

• THE JAPAN SOCIETY income £664k
• TANAKA UK JAPAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £360k
• THE JAPANESE SCHOOL LIMITED income £4.1m
• RIKKYO SCHOOL IN ENGLAND TRUST income £7.2m
• NUR CULTURAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION income £344k
• SHULEM B. ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £5.1m

Side by side with its peers

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