V Learning Network

Registered charity 1091073 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEARNING PLUS, Step into Learning, V LEARNING NET

Provider of education to learners from community backgrounds within Devon and Cornwall.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £62,065 for the year ended 31 July 2025, following a surplus in the previous year. Despite this, the charity held total unrestricted reserves of £425,727 at year-end, which the trustees consider adequate to meet working capital needs and sustain current activities. The trustees are confident that no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's 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 audited by Blackwell Bate Ltd. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04327526

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Kelly Channon — Executive Director (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• EVANS, Harriet — director, appointed 13/06/2025on trustee list
• CROSSEY, Matthew Darren — director, appointed 18/01/2024on trustee list
• WADSWORTH, Colin — director, appointed 25/11/2015on trustee list
• BISHOP, Anne Marie Victoria — director, appointed 29/11/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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

• Anne Marie Victoria Bishop
• Colin Wadsworth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Harriet Evans
• Matthew Crossey

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

Operates in: Cornwall · Devon

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OPEN COLLEGE NETWORK LONDON REGION.

• OPEN COLLEGE NETWORK LONDON REGION income £2.1m
• LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL STUDENT ASSOCIATION income £2.5m
• WEST KENT FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S INSTITUTES income £104k
• THE VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTOR LEARNING AND SKILLS CONSORTIUM income £1.5m
• A S HORNBY EDUCATIONAL TRUST CIO income £326k
• LANCING COLLEGE LIMITED income £33.0m

Side by side with its peers

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