THE ABDO COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Registered charity 1087337 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ABDO COLLEGE, THE ABDO COLLEGE

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £214,891 for the year, primarily due to timing differences in apprenticeship funding and upfront investment costs. However, the trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources and sufficient unrestricted reserves of £1,638,314 to meet its obligations and continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Burgess Hodgson Audit Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Nina McDermott — College Principal (source)
• Jo Underwood — ABDO College Advisor & Founding Principal (source)
• Steve Hertz — Head of Operational Services (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brenda Rennie
• Claire Louise Walsh FBDO
• Daryl Newsome
• Deborah Bill
• Leslie Thomas

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRISTS.

• THE COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRISTS income £10.7m
• EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT income £1.1m
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF DERMATOLOGISTS income £7.5m
• ABN TRUST income £175k
• LONDON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS STUDIES income £1.9m
• JEWISH TEACHERS' TRAINING COLLEGE income £3.8m

Side by side with its peers

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