TAMAR EDUCATION TRUST

Registered charity 1056466 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Education and Training for young people

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE FROM AGES FIVE TO EIGHTEEN IN PARTICULAR BY ASSISTANCE TO THEIR PARENTS TO ENABLE SUCH CHILDREN TO BE TAUGHT OTHERWISE THAN AT SCHOOL AS DEFINED IN THE EDUCATION ACTS 1944 TO 1993. ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BRETHEN.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £443,029 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with unrestricted reserves increasing to £2,443,647. The trustees maintain a reserves policy of six months' unrestricted expenditure and confirmed adequate resources to continue as a going concern. The charity is principally financed by profits from its trading subsidiary, Oakdene Trading Limited, which ceased trading during the year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by mca Banbury Ltd. Discloses 5 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.

• Complaints handling
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (62% 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: 62.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/10/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Glen Buckley
• Kim Robert Greeno
• Richard Neil Scott
• Ross Darren Melvin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ryan Burtenshaw

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

Operates in: Devon · Plymouth City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MEDESHAMSTEDE EDUCATION TRUST.

• MEDESHAMSTEDE EDUCATION TRUST income £1.7m
• TENDER EDUCATION AND ARTS income £1.8m
• CAREDUCATION TRUST LTD income £133k
• THE TEN CHARITABLE TRUST income £589k
• ERMINE EDUCATION TRUST income £3.1m
• TARAJ EDUCATION TRUST income £126k

Side by side with its peers

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