INSPIRE SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1105834 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KENT AND MEDWAY CHARITY TEAM, KENT AND MEDWAY WALKING BUS GROUP

The charity delivers literacy, road safety and walk to school initiatives to support schools, families and children. In the Kent area it also supports the charitable sector by staging collaborative fundraising events which good causes use to boost their fundraising.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN, FAMILIES, THE HOMELESS AND DISADVANTAGED IN ENGLAND BY DELIVERING, SUPPORTING AND PROMOTING LITERACY INITIATIVES TO IMPROVE READING, WRITING, SPEAKING AND LISTENING SKILLS. THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH FOR CHILDREN, FAMILIES, THE HOMELESS AND DISADVANTAGED IN ENGLAND THROUGH, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY, THE DELIVERY AND SUPPORT OF GREEN TRAVEL TO SCHOOL INITIATIVES, PROMOTION OF FOOD EDUCATION INITIATIVES, AND PROVISION OF LEISURE TIME ADRENALINE CHALLENGES. THE ADVANCEMENT OF CITIZENSHIP AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BY SUPPORTING SCHOOL COUNCILS, STUDENT GROUPS AND COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS IN ENGLAND TO EMPOWER CHILDREN AND FAMILIES TO INFLUENCE COMMUNITY ISSUES, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY ON, HEALTH AND ROAD SAFETY ISSUES. THE PROMOTION OF ARTS AND SCIENCE TO SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS WITHIN ENGLAND TO RAISE AWARENESS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SUBJECTS TO THE FAMILY, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY. THE PROMOTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT TO SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS WITHIN ENGLAND THROUGH, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY ON, GREEN TRAVEL INITIATIVES, NATURE CONSERVATION, ENERGY CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING.

Area of benefit: KENT AND MEDWAY

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income
£211k
Latest spending
£277k
Registered
2004

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Policies the charity declares

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

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2021

  • Volunteers: 2
  • Government income: £129,140 — grants £129,140 (21); 61% of the £210,779 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2020

  • Government income: £175,221 — grants £175,221 (22); 54% of the £323,768 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2019

  • Volunteers: 4

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Its only annual return with a recorded received date was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 17/12/2022, 47 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

4 further annual returns are past their due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025——
31/12/2024——
31/12/2023——
31/12/2022——
31/12/2021£211k£277k

Common questions

Who funds INSPIRE SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name INSPIRE SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include THE COLE CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE COLE CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£1kChildren and Youth

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund18/06/2021£8kThe Kent Volunteering Awards
The National Lottery Community Fund07/08/2019£7kKent Volunteering Awards