THE ERIC WRIGHT LEARNING FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1111185 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Vocational learning centre for 14-19 year old students in South Ribble and Chorley areas to provide training, mainly in construction related trades, so increasing recruitment to construction industry

Objects

3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING, MAINLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN CONSTRUCTION RELATED TRADES, BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:3.1.1 THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A VOCATIONAL CENTRE FOR 14-19 YEAR OLD STUDENTS IN THE SOUTH RIBBLE AND CHORLEY AREAS.3.1.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OR PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING OR RE-TRAINING PARTICULARLY AMONG STUDENTS AND PROVIDING STUDENTS WITH WORK EXPERIENCE.3.1.3 SUCH OTHER MEANS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED BY THE TRUSTEES.3.2 THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING ASSISTANCE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT.

Area of benefit: SOUTH RIBBLE AND CHORLEY AREAS.

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: South Ribble, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document contains only metadata headers and Docusign envelope identifiers for a filing dated 26 May 2026, with no financial data, trustee statements, or auditor reports included.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
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• 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

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

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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 31/08/2023 (received 23/07/2024, 23 days after the 30/06/2024 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

• Andrew Peter Hird
• DIANE BOURNE
• Gavin Hulme
• John Richard Hartnett
• Neal David Whittle

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

Operates in: Lancashire

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Known funders

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