THE CRANEDALE EDUCATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1087766 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CRANEDALE CENTRE

Educational Field Study Centre

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF EDUCATION CONCERNING THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE LIVING WORLD

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.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £124,672, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of 12 months' expenditure. The charity reported a net surplus of £88,998 for the year, reversing a previous deficit, while operating with a staff headcount of 34 and total charitable expenditure of £896,537.

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 4 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTONY WILLOUGHBY ALEXANDER OUTHWAITEchair
• JONATHAN PATRICK MIDGLEY
• MARGARET ELIZABETH OUTHWAITE
• RICHARD EDWARD FRANCE
• RICHARD HEATH ROBERT INNES

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CRANBROOK FOUNDATION.

• THE CRANBROOK FOUNDATION income £520k
• CAREDUCATION TRUST LTD income £133k
• CENTRE FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY EDUCATION TRUST income £1.9m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CRANLEY OTHERWISE CRANLEIGH income £313k
• Cranford School income £12.7m
• FAIZAN-E-MADINA MOSQUE COMMITTEE (TRUST) income £536k

Side by side with its peers

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