SHROPSHIRE EDUCATION AND CONFERENCE CENTRE

Registered charity 1077935 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SECC, SHREWSBURY POSTGRADUATE CENTRE, THE SHROPSHIRE EDUCATION AND CONFERENCE CENTRE

The charity makes available the Shropshire Education and Conference Centre to professions allied to medicine for training and education purposes. The Centre has a range of training facilities including a 200 seat training theatre, syndicate and seminar rooms, a library and practical skills theatre.In particular the Centre is used for the training of doctors undergoing post-graduate training.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE SUBJECTS OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE AND ALL MATTERS RELATING TO THE PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT OF ALL BRANCHES OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Shropshire, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves decreased to £332,708 from £386,149 in the prior year, while total funds fell to £1,993,830. The charity reported a net movement in funds of a deficit of £107,662, driven by a decline in letting income due to competition and budgetary restrictions from the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR T PARSONSchair
• Dr Clare McDermott
• Dr Jennifer Rowlands
• Dr Kate Jones
• Jeffrey Butterworth
• Martin Holyoake
• Professor Koottalai Srinivasan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Jenkins · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Shropshire

Income and spending

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• CHOPPINGTON SOCIAL WELFARE CENTRE income £42k
• MID STAFFORDSHIRE POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL CENTRE (EDUCATION) income £106k
• SHROPSHIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £150k
• SHROPSHIRE MUSIC TRUST income £64k
• PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING income £658k
• THE IPSWICH INSTITUTE READING ROOM AND LIBRARY income £560k

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