NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ABLE CHILDREN IN EDUCATION

Registered charity 1125907 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NACE

To provide advice, support and professional development for teachers and others in the education of more able, gifted and talented pupils. To maintain and promote awareness of the developments in the education of able, gifted and talented pupils. To act as an advocate for the needs of able pupils both nationally and locally.

Objects

The advancement of education of able, gifted and talented children and students in the United Kingdom and in other countries and in particular but not exclusively by:- 1.1 conducting research concerning the provision made within schools? curricula for such children in order to disseminate the useful results of such research and to develop curricula and ex-curricula provision commensurate with the educational requirements of such children; and 1.2 providing for the training and support to teachers and others concerned with the education of such children in the theory and good practice of provision for their education.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED, IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

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 the charity reported a net loss of £35,856 for the year ended 31st August 2025, resulting in a drop in free reserves to £196,746. Per the trustees' report, this level is below their stated policy target of approximately £300,000, though the trustees maintain that reserves remain strong for a charity of this size.

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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barbara Firth
• Dr Robin Meredith Bevan MA PhD
• Hilary Rebecca Lowe
• Natalie Voss
• Robert Jones BSc ACA
• Sally Elizabeth Hannah
• Steven William James Ramsey BA MEd

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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