Red Balloon Educational Trust

Registered charity 1109606 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RBET, RBET Aylesbury, RBET Norfolk, RBLCG, RED BALLOON GROUP, RED BALLOON LEARNER CENTRE GROUP

Red Balloon Educational Trust sets up and oversees small schools, called Learner Centres, that offer a full-time educational, therapeutic and community-based recovery programme for children and young people aged 9 to 18 who experience EBSA (emotionally-based school avoidance) as a consequence of severe bullying or other traumatic experiences.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net assets increased by £628k to £3,815k, with free reserves held at £2,370k, which equates to approximately 6.9 months of operating costs. The trustees report that the charity's financial position remained stable and that there are no material uncertainties affecting 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 audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05385341

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Red Balloon Educational Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• DOBSON, Michael Ian — director, appointed 18/11/2025on trustee list
• RAM, Surjit Dhande — director, appointed 18/11/2025on trustee list
• JESSUP, Barry Paul — director, appointed 13/10/2025on trustee list
• BURDITT, Ralph David — director, appointed 30/04/2025on trustee list
• LOSHAK, Ruth — director, appointed 22/08/2023on trustee list
• REISS, Michael Jonathan, Revd Professor — director, appointed 13/11/2006on trustee list
• HERBERT, Caroline Mary Heaven — director, appointed 08/03/2005not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £1.8m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (84% 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: 2.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/07/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CARRIE HERBERTchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Barry Jessup
• Michael Dobson
• RUTH LOSHAK · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ralph Burditt
• Revd Professor Michael Jonathan Reiss · trustee of 4 other charities
• Sophie Baillie
• Surjit Ram

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

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RED BALLOON LEARNER CENTRE CAMBRIDGE.

• RED BALLOON LEARNER CENTRE CAMBRIDGE income £1.2m
• Nurture Education Trust Ltd income £1.4m
• RED HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED income £4.9m
• BALLOONS (DEVON) income £312k
• RED ROBINS income £147k
• RAINBOWS4CHILDREN (UK) TRUST income £120k

Side by side with its peers

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