THE VERIFICATION RESEARCH TRAINING AND INFORMATION CENTRE ( VERTIC )

Registered charity 1073051 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VERTIC

VERTIC is an independent, non-profit making, non-governmental organisation. Its mission is to promote effective and efficient verification as a means of ensuring confidence in the implementation of international agreements and intra-national agreements with international involvement.

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Latest income
£818k
Latest spending
£1.2m
Registered
1998
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £55,821 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £1,632,222 to £1,519,265. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Unrestricted reserves stood at £1,109,725, which is significantly above the stated policy target of £285,000.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months operating and contractual costs (held: £1.1m)
“holding unrestricted reserves equivalent to three months operating and contractual costs is a sufficient minimum, which based upon the figures for the year ended 31 October 2024 is £285,000”
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Goldwins Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Total income
£818k
Total spending
£1.2m
Cost of raising funds
£45k
Reserves (reported)
£834k
Employees
13

Reported reserves equal ~8.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 5.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Antigua And Barbuda · Austria · Barbados · Brazil · Cambodia · Cameroon · Ethiopia · Germany · Ivory Coast · Jamaica · Japan · Laos

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/10/2025£818k£1.2m
31/10/2024£1.7m£1.8m
31/10/2023£2.2m£1.5m
31/10/2022£1.2m£1.0m
31/10/2021£1.4m£1.3m

Common questions

Is THE VERIFICATION RESEARCH TRAINING AND INFORMATION CENTRE ( VERTIC ) financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £55,821 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £1,632,222 to £1,519,265. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Unrestricted reserves stood at £1,109,725, which is significantly above the stated policy target of £285,000. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Goldwins Limited.

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE TOLKIEN TRUST1£125k
INTERNATIONAL ALERT1£98k
THE EVAN CORNISH FOUNDATION1£15k
ENFIELD LIONS CLUB (CIO)1£6k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VIDERE EST CREDERE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE VERIFICATION RESEARCH TRAINING AND INFORMATION CENTRE ( VERTIC )£818k——unclear—no doubt
VIDERE EST CREDERE FY2025£2.2m——unclear—no doubt
VERITAS CATHOLIC EDUCATION, WELFARE AND CULTURE FOUNDATION (COMMONLY KNOWN AS VERITAS FOUNDATION) FY2025£197k—0unclear—no doubt
VEERAYATAN UK FY2025£231k—0unclear—no doubt
VENDQUOT LIMITED FY2025£187k—0above—no doubt
VERITAS COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL FY2025£784k—0unclear—no doubt

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