WORKTREE

Registered charity 1089125 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COUNTEC LIMITED

Provide services to develop young people's employability, especially through meaningful employer encounters, to raise their career awareness and aspirations.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND EMPLOYERS IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROVISION OF CAREER GUIDANCE, COUNSELLING, TRAINING AND INFORMATION RELATING TO THE AVAILABILITY OF EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES WITH THE AIM OF ASSISTING SUCH YOUNG PEOPLE TO SECURE GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.IN PRACTICE ALL OVER THE UK BUT PREDOMINANTLY IN MILTON KEYNES AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS: BEDFORDSHIRE,BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE,OXFORDSHIRE,HERTFORDSHIRE.

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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Registered contact address: Milton Keynes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £73,382, exceeding the trustees' policy target of three months' expenditure. The charity reported a net income surplus of £48,813, driven by significant growth in sponsorship and school contract income.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2024 (received 24/06/2025, 24 days after the 31/05/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexandra Laura Ann Sutton
• Declan John Marks
• Eddie Bullen
• Mark Gary Austin
• Rachel Collar
• Richard Keith MOODY
• Sarah Watt

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YOUTH OPTIONS.

• YOUTH OPTIONS income £3.8m
• RIVERTREE TRUST income £518k
• WORKING OPTIONS IN EDUCATION income £620k
• THE OPENWORK FOUNDATION income £1.2m
• CHARITYWORKS income £443k
• NORTHCLIFFE ENVIRONMENTAL ENTERPRISES TEAM income £728k

Side by side with its peers

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