Children's University Trust
Registered charity 1118315 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CU TRUST · also registered in Scotland as SC052423 (OSCR)
CU is an extra-curricular education programme working with children aged 5 - 14 to ignite a passion for learning, to raise aspirations and build self confidence. Children are presented with a diverse menu of quality-assured activities and credits are awarded for participation. Once sufficient credits have been amassed, children's efforts are celebrated with certificates and graduation ceremonies.
Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity faced significant financial stress due to reduced income and a forecast unrestricted deficit of (£26,000) for the next 12 months. Per the trustees' report, the organization is monitoring cash flow closely and has temporarily relaxed its reserves policy to maintain solvency, while considering an orderly wind-down if survival without breaching policies becomes unlikely.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Largest income source: Children’s University network members (62% of income)
“The Trust received 83% (£153,290) of its unrestricted income (£184,963) and 62% of its total income (£248,315) from Children’s University network members by way of membership subscriptions and sales of the Passport to Learning which fund the Trust’s charitable activities in accordance with its stated objectives.” — page 12
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £16k; policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure)
“At 31st March 2025 the lowest level of Reserves forecast in the next 12 months (March 2026) was (£26,000).” — page 14
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Going concern: accounts NOT prepared on a going-concern basis (closing, merging or winding up)
“The review noted, however, that continued financial stresses caused by lack of income – especially lack of success in grant and donation bids – compared with our cost levels meant that we would have to review the possibility of invoking Orderly Wind Down if we could not foresee a reasonable probability of survival without breaching our Reserves and Cash Policies.” — page 13
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Year-over-year changes
- Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → not a going concern (FY2025).
Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Children's University Trust (matched by registered charity number).
Company officers (Companies House)
Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.
- DAY, Owen Walter — director, appointed 18/09/2024on trustee list
- WEBSTER, Stephanie Jayne — director, appointed 18/09/2024on trustee list
- RICHMOND, Louise — director, appointed 23/03/2022on trustee list
- CHARLES, Victoria Edith — director, appointed 10/03/2021on trustee list
- HARDCASTLE-HILL, Tania Sultana — director, appointed 10/03/2021on trustee list
- PEERS, Sonjia Victoria — secretary, appointed 22/04/2024
Official officers record.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)
Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (2.9%) (benchmarks).
- Carmen Velilla
- Jonathan Spencer
- Louise Richmond
- Owen Walter Day
- Stephanie Jayne Webster
- Sui Fang Yeung
- Tania Sultana Hardcastle-Hill
- Victoria Edith Charles
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is Children's University Trust financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity faced significant financial stress due to reduced income and a forecast unrestricted deficit of (£26,000) for the next 12 months. Per the trustees' report, the organization is monitoring cash flow closely and has temporarily relaxed its reserves policy to maintain solvency, while considering an orderly wind-down if survival without breaching policies becomes unlikely. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
Who funds Children's University Trust?
Funders whose own accounts filings name Children's University Trust as a grant recipient include BIG CHANGE CHARITABLE TRUST.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Government & lottery funding
Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).
Funders of similar charities
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