EDUCATION FOR DEVELOPMENT

Registered charity 1006962 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EDDEV, EFD

Education For Development supports education and social development initiatives in marginalised communities, wherever they are located. Much of our work is around non-formal and community education approaches, using a range of media, and learner-generated resources.

Objects

(A) TO PROVIDE OR SUPPORT PROGRAMMES OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR ADULTS IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES AIMED AT THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POORER POPULATIONS USING THE MOST APPROPRIATE FORMS OF ADULT LEARNING METHODOLOGIES (B) TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY OF ADULT EDUCATION BODIES AND CHARITABLE BODIES IN THE UK BY INCREASING THEIR AWARENESS OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF EDUCATORS OF ADULTS IN DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING PROGRAMMES IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES

Area of benefit: UK AND THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Reading, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £20,977.90 against total expenditure of £30,374.14, resulting in a net deficit. The charity reports a closing balance of £13,452.43, with restricted funds held at £16,960.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 17/02/2024, 17 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 02/02/2022, 2 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

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

• The National Lottery Community Fund — “Huge thanks to The National Lottery Community Fund for our recent grant!” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr KATY NEWELL-JONESchair
• Alexander Leith-Snow
• Clara Maciver

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

Operates in: Sierra Leone · The Gambia · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE EDUCATION ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION.

• THE EDUCATION ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION income £52.4m
• LEEDS DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION CENTRE LIMITED income £78k
• EDUCATION FOR LIFE income £256k
• THE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT income £259k
• EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £73.8m
• Services For Education Limited income £7.2m

Side by side with its peers

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