THE CORDWAINERS EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING CHARITABLE TRUST COMPANY

Registered charity 1050213 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CORDWAINERS EDUCATIONAL TRUST

The Charity was established for the provision of accommodation for individuals undergoing vocational and educational and training, and for the creation of scholarships, bursaries, prizes and the support of education and training through grants and awards. The charity owns property in Cordwainers Court, London E8 3RE and provides student accommodation at these premises.

Causes: Education/training · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a significant surplus and unrestricted reserves of £15,923,909, following the disposal of its property asset. The trustees confirm that cash reserves are sufficient to maintain the charity as a going concern, with a stated policy target of holding 12-24 months of operational expenditure. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed trading subsidiaries or pension deficits.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03100993

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sir Stephen Powis — Master (source)
• Christopher Taylor — Senior Warden (source)
• Tim Lodge — Second Warden (source)
• Dominic Casey — Steward Warden (source)
• Emma Lane-Ley — Renter Warden (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.

• LODGE, Timothy Ralph Henry — director, appointed 15/07/2026on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Christopher John — director, appointed 17/07/2025on trustee list
• WILSON, Simon Henry Carrington — director, appointed 26/09/2024on trustee list
• POWIS, Stephen Huw, Professor Sir — director, appointed 18/07/2024on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Richard Owen Mander — director, appointed 21/09/2021on trustee list
• FAIRWEATHER, Edward Charles — director, appointed 25/11/2020on trustee list
• BOOTH, George Charles Robin — director, appointed 28/11/2019on trustee list
• CHAMBERLAIN, Arthur — director, appointed 07/07/2017on trustee list
• GRAHAM, Penelope Jane — secretary, appointed 10/01/2019

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (92% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Arthur Chamberlain · trustee of 1 other charity
• CHARLES PHILIP FAIRWEATHER · trustee of 2 other charities
• Christopher John Taylor
• Edward Charles Fairweather
• George Charles Robin Booth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Owen Mander Williams
• Sally Ann Childs
• Simon Henry Carrington Wilson
• Sir Stephen Huw Powis · trustee of 2 other charities
• Timothy Ralph Henry Lodge

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

Operates in: Hackney

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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