THE VOCATIONAL LEARNING TRUST

Registered charity 1112944 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VOLT

The Vocational Learning Trust has built a vocational learning centre called The Work Place. VOLT is responsible for ensuring the building is used for the aims and objectives of the Trust and also has a remit to raise funds for educational purposes.

Objects

TO PROVIDE EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN VOCATIONAL AND APPLIED SUBJECTS AND MATHS AND SCIENCE PRIMARILY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND AND YORKSHIRE TO HELP THEM UNDERSTAND THE INTER RELATIONSHIPS OF THESE SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE WORK PLACE.

Area of benefit: YORKSHIRE AND NORTH EAST ENGLAND

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £1,579,979, with the reserves policy aiming to maintain sufficient levels for major unforeseen repairs. The trustees report a reasonable expectation of adequate resources for the foreseeable future, supported by rental income and grant funding streams.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• JANE RITCHIE MBEchair
• ANDREW GILMORE
• LISA INGLEBY
• Margaret Rose Elliott
• Marjorie Ann McDonnell
• Michael Bernard MCGARRY · trustee of 3 other charities
• Richard Learmouth

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

Operates in: Darlington · Durham · Gateshead · Hartlepool · Middlesbrough · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · Northumberland · Stockton-on-tees · Sunderland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VOCATIONAL TRAINING CHARITABLE TRUST.

• VOCATIONAL TRAINING CHARITABLE TRUST income £13.4m
• Ufi VocTech Trust income £828k
• THE LEARNING SKILLS TRUST income £193k
• THE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT TRUST LIMITED income £8.6m
• THE VERNON EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £13.5m
• WALTHAM FOREST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TRAINING TRUST LIMITED income £816k

Side by side with its peers

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