WORKERS' EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1112775 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WEA · also registered in Scotland as SC039239 (OSCR)

Promote adult and general education by stimulating and responding to the demand for liberal education, providing for the needs of working class adults and of those who are socially, economically or educationally disadvantaged, providing educational programmes in the community and in the workplace, furthering the advancement of education for all and promoting the effectiveness of similar charities.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that WEA delivered an operational surplus and ended the year with free unrestricted reserves of £5.1m, which exceeds the trustees' stated minimum requirement of £3.5m to £4m. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern through July 2027, 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 Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Workers' Educational Association (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

14 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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 (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• AMANDA WOODVINE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Donachie
• Andrew Law
• Catherine Armor
• Christine Grant
• Colin Finlay
• Domain Olufowobi
• Geoffrey Mark Layer · trustee of 2 other charities
• Matthew Pointon
• Priscilla Appleton
• Ronald Marks
• Stas Lawrence
• Stephanie Mason · trustee of 1 other charity
• William Pickford

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITIES AND HOUSING INVESTMENT IN PEOPLE.

• COMMUNITIES AND HOUSING INVESTMENT IN PEOPLE income £207k
• Association of Higher Education Professionals income £761k
• THE NATIONAL SOCIETY (CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND CHURCH IN WALES) FOR THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION income £6.4m
• ERMINE EDUCATION TRUST income £3.1m
• COMMUNITY EDUCATION INSTITUTE income £231k
• THE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT TRUST LIMITED income £8.6m

Side by side with its peers

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