THE UFTON COURT EDUCATIONAL TRUST

Registered charity 1116659 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE UPTON COURT EDUCATIONAL TRUST

To advance the education of children and young people by providing a unique historical centre at Ufton Court, and other learning opportunities elsewhere, where they can learn about themselves and the past through active learning experiences; and to advance in life children and young people,primarily living in deprived areas of Berkshire,Hampshire and Oxfordshire and the surrounding areas.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £239,278 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £2,404,765 against total expenditure of £2,165,487. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £1,198,017, which is above the stated policy target of six months' core operating costs. The auditor confirmed that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Menzies LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mary Riall — Founder / Former CEO / Board Member (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (55% 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: 13.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Hawkerchair
• Clare Normand OBE
• Geoffrey William Claude Eversfield · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Patrick Atherton
• Philippa Medd
• Tanya Rahman
• William John Read Steele
• Zoe Lavinia Beatrice Benyon · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NORTHUMBRIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST LTD.

• THE NORTHUMBRIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST LTD income £2.9m
• ERMINE EDUCATION TRUST income £3.1m
• Berkshire Youth LTD income £1.4m
• BECKETT'S AND SARGEANT'S EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £284k
• HEATH MOUNT SCHOOL TRUST LTD income £10.1m
• HUMAN PRACTICE FOUNDATION UK income £184k

Side by side with its peers

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