Mountain Training United Kingdom & Ireland Ltd

Registered charity 1090203 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MLTUK, MOUNTAIN LEADER TRAINING UK, MOUNTAIN TRAINING UK INC. LTD, THE UNITED KINGDOM MOUNTAIN TRAINING BOARD LIMITED, UKMTB

MTUK & Ireland Ltd is the co-ordinating body for all mountain training schemes in the UK, overseeing the training and assessment of around six thousand leaders and mountaineering instructors annually.

Objects

The Company is established for the following aims—(a) the advancement for the public benefit of education and training (in conjunction where appropriate with other persons or bodies) in the skills required for leading, instructing, coaching and participating in safe hill, mountain, moorland and countryside walking, mountaineering and rock, ice and indoor climbing, and other associated activities, and to offer advice on matters of training and safety; (b) such other objects (as are exclusively charitable according to the law of England and Wales) as the Directors, following consultation with the Members, decide.

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £13,844 for the year, an improvement from the previous year's deficit of £51,528. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves (liquid assets) stood at £336,991, which exceeds the calculated requirement of £238,526 for six months of trading. The charity operates a single unrestricted fund with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 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 (91% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Steve Davieschair
• Graham Norman Hassall
• Kevin Redmond
• Lynn Robinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Alexander Chapman
• Richard David Tiplady
• Sean Maxwell Wood

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MOUNTAIN TRAINING ENGLAND.

• MOUNTAIN TRAINING ENGLAND income £469k
• MOUNTAIN RESCUE ENGLAND AND WALES income £1.3m
• MOUNTAIN TRAINING TRUST income £4.3m
• LONGTOWN MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM income £122k
• UNITED KINGDOM MATHEMATICS TRUST income £2.5m
• LLANBERIS MOUNTAIN RESCUE TEAM CIO / TÎM ACHUB MYNYDD LLANBERIS SCE income £123k

Side by side with its peers

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