NATIONAL LEARNING AND WORK INSTITUTE

Registered charity 1002775 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEARNING AND WORK INSTITUTE, N I A C E - THE NATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR ADULT LEARNING, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADULT CONTINUING EDUCATION, THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADULT CONTINUING EDUCATION (ENGLAND AND WALES)

We are an independent research and development organisation dedicated to promoting lifelong learning, full employment and inclusion

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF ALL FORMS OF ADULT EDUCATION, AND THE RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the organisation reported a net expenditure deficit of £195,000 for the year, a significant decline from the prior year's surplus, primarily due to a one-off pension surplus in the previous period. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £1,792,000, which exceeds the stated policy maximum of £1,500,000, and the trustees consider the organisation to be a going concern with sufficient liquidity.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02603322 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Stephen Evans — Chief Executive (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Nuffield Foundation — “New analysis from L&W funded by Nuffield Foundation identifies an overreliance on mandatory and compliance training in UK workplaces compare…” (source page)
• Age UK — “In the last year our main funders were Age UK” (source page)

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.

• SPEAR, Richard Mark — director, appointed 05/12/2024on trustee list
• IVORY-CHAPMAN, Nichola Jayne — director, appointed 14/03/2024on trustee list
• AYLES, Harriet — director, appointed 14/03/2024on trustee list
• VERNON, Belinda — director, appointed 14/03/2024on trustee list
• SALAM, Ayokunle Temitope — director, appointed 30/11/2023on trustee list
• HARRIS, Lauren — director, appointed 23/09/2021on trustee list
• RENDER, Timothy Ennis — director, appointed 29/11/2018on trustee list
• MOORE, Jeremy Patrick — director, appointed 26/01/2018on trustee list
• MERRIFIELD, Margaret Haf — director, appointed 08/11/2012on trustee list
• GALLIERS, Margaret Mary — director, appointed 02/11/2006not on trustee list
• EVANS, Stephen — secretary, appointed 01/09/2016

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

Reported reserves equal ~23.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jeremy Moorechair
• Akeel Ahmed · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ayokunle Temitope Salam · trustee of 1 other charity
• Harriet Ayles · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lauren Harris · trustee of 1 other charity
• MAGGIE GALLIERS · trustee of 1 other charity
• MS HAF MERRIFIELD
• Molly Johnson-Jones
• Nichola Ivory-Chapman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Spear · trustee of 1 other charity
• Samantha Jones
• belinda vernon · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH.

• THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH income £3.3m
• THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH IN ENGLAND AND WALES income £19.2m
• INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT STUDIES income £4.1m
• THE NATIONAL LITERACY TRUST income £14.3m
• THE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH income £201k
• NORTHERN LEARNING TRUST income £890k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.