The Wavertree Education Trust Limited

Registered charity 1111771 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MILL REEF CHARITABLE TRUST, THE WAVERTREE CHARITABLE TRUST

The charity, based on the site of the National Stud in Newmarket supports educational courses for those interested in pursuing a career in the equine industry. It also enables, through the medium of grant aid, public visits at the stud allowing the public to be educated in horse husbandry.

Objects

3.1.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF PERSONS ESPECIALLY THE YOUNGTO PREPARE THEM FOR TRADES AND OCCUPATIONS IN THE EQUINE INDUSTRY AND, INPARTICULAR THE BREEDING OF HORSES AND THEREBY ADVANCE THEM IN LIFE; AND/OR3.1.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THROUGH PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE EDUCATIONALFACILITIES OFFERED BY THE NATIONAL STUD LIMITED (OR SUCH OTHER ORGANISATIONPROVIDING SIMILAR EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES) INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO A VISITORSEDUCATION CENTRE WHERE THE PUBLIC CAN LEARN ABOUT HORSE HUSBANDRY AND INPARTICULAR, THE BREEDING OF HORSES AND TO PROMOTE THROUGH EDUCATION,HUMANITY AND MORALITY AMONG THE PUBLIC IN THE CARE AND CONSIDERATION OFHORSES; AND/OR3.1.3 TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE RESEARCH INTO THE BREEDING USE AND MANAGEMENTOF THOROUGHBRED AND NON-THOROUGHBRED HORSES AND FACILITATE THE ACQUISITIONAND DISTRIBUTION OF SUCH KNOWLEDGE; AND/OR3.1.4 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY CONSISTENT WITHAND COMPLEMENTARY TO THE OBJECTS ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIRABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE (THE 'OBJECTS').

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Animals · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Cambridgeshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported total income of £490,042 and total expenditure of £554,249, resulting in a net expenditure for the year. Unrestricted reserves stood at £26,741, which the trustees confirmed was above their stated policy target of maintaining at least 12 months of operational expenditure. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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 5 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RICHARD HAMILTON FLEETWOOD FULLERchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Fiona Catherine Dowding
• Mark Steven Dean
• Nicholas Wingfield-Digby
• Tessa Hetherington
• WILLIAM HENRY SPORBORG · trustee of 1 other charity

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

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