ENTHUSE CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1126965 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objects of the Charity are to advance the education of the public, by fostering and promoting the continuing professional development (CPD) of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) educators by the provision of grants and bursaries to: schools, education service providers and any organisation that promotes, arranges or organises courses and meetings that provide CPD to STEM educators.

Objects

THE PROVISION OF GRANTS AND BURSARIES AND OTHER FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO SCHOOLS AND OTHER EDUCATION SERVICE PROVIDERS TO ATTEND SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, LECTURES, COURSES AND MEETINGS AND PROVIDE MATERIALS WHICH PROVIDE CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO SCIENCE TEACHERS AND OTHER EDUCATORS OF SCIENCE (AND CLOSELY RELATED SUBJECTS) OR TO COVER THE COSTS OF SUPPLY TEACHING REQUIRED AS A RESULT OF A TEACHER OR OTHER EDUCATOR ATTENDING SUCH COURSES; AND/ORTHE PROVISION OF GRANTS TO ANY ORGANISATION THAT DESIGNS, PROMOTES, ARRANGES, ORGANISES, PROVIDES OR OPERATES SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, LECTURES, COURSES AND MEETINGS WHICH PROVIDE CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO SCIENCE TEACHERS AND OTHER EDUCATORS OF SCIENCE (AND CLOSELY RELATED SUBJECTS) ON A NOT-FOR-PROFIT BASIS.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED, IN PRACTICE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£3.4m

Latest spending

£3.6m

Registered

2008

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the trust reported a net deficit of £185,997 for the year, reducing total funds to £1,595,272. Per the trustees' report, this balance is considered reasonable and in line with plans to July 2028, with free reserves of £910,282 exceeding the stated policy target of £500,000. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £0.5million of unrestricted funds (reserves figure: £910k)

“A target value of £0.5million of unrestricted funds has been set.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: M Whitby and R Wall, trustees of the charity, are also directors of STEM Learning Limited. During the year STEM Learning Limited charged the charity £60,000 (including VAT) (2024 - £60,000) for its services in the administration of the trust, the fundraising function, and the payment of grants awarded by the trustees, under a commercial agreement dated 22 December 2008.

“M Whitby and R Wall, trustees of the charity, are also directors of STEM Learning Limited. During the year STEM Learning Limited charged the charity £60,000 (including VAT) (2024 - £60,000) for its services in the administration of the trust, the fundraising function, and the payment of grants awarded by the trustees, under a commercial agreement dated 22 December 2008.” — page 24

“During the year, the Charity was charged £3,380,143 (2024 - £3,900,782) by STEM Learning Limited for training services and at the year end owed STEM learning limited £72,870 (2024 - £312,172).” — page 24

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: During the year, the Charity was charged £3,380,143 (2024 - £3,900,782) by STEM Learning Limited for training services and at the year end owed STEM learning limited £72,870 (2024 - £312,172).

“M Whitby and R Wall, trustees of the charity, are also directors of STEM Learning Limited. During the year STEM Learning Limited charged the charity £60,000 (including VAT) (2024 - £60,000) for its services in the administration of the trust, the fundraising function, and the payment of grants awarded by the trustees, under a commercial agreement dated 22 December 2008.” — page 24

“During the year, the Charity was charged £3,380,143 (2024 - £3,900,782) by STEM Learning Limited for training services and at the year end owed STEM learning limited £72,870 (2024 - £312,172).” — page 24

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: The Charity also received grant income of £500,000 in the form of gift aid from Stem Learning Limited.

“M Whitby and R Wall, trustees of the charity, are also directors of STEM Learning Limited. During the year STEM Learning Limited charged the charity £60,000 (including VAT) (2024 - £60,000) for its services in the administration of the trust, the fundraising function, and the payment of grants awarded by the trustees, under a commercial agreement dated 22 December 2008.” — page 24

“During the year, the Charity was charged £3,380,143 (2024 - £3,900,782) by STEM Learning Limited for training services and at the year end owed STEM learning limited £72,870 (2024 - £312,172).” — page 24

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services Limited. 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.

Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investment
Risk management
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/07/2025

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/07/2024

Volunteers: 1
Government income: £210,394 — grants £210,394 (1); 7% of the £3,078,294 total gross income on the same return
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/07/2023

Volunteers: 1
Government income: £505,818 — grants £505,818 (1); 12% of the £4,130,061 total gross income on the same return
Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Total income

£3.4m

Total spending

£3.6m

Cost of raising funds

£60k

Reserves (reported)

£910k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (73% 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: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (05/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (14/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Professor Dudley Shallcrosschair
Anna Gawthorp
Francesca MacLennan
Katherine MATHIESON
Mark Hindhaugh Whitby
RIFFAT SAEED WALL

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/07/2025	£3.4m	£3.6m
31/07/2024	£3.1m	£4.5m
31/07/2023	£4.1m	£5.6m
31/07/2022	£4.4m	£4.7m
31/07/2021	£3.8m	£3.1m

Common questions

Is ENTHUSE CHARITABLE TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the trust reported a net deficit of £185,997 for the year, reducing total funds to £1,595,272. Per the trustees' report, this balance is considered reasonable and in line with plans to July 2028, with free reserves of £910,282 exceeding the stated policy target of £500,000. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Azets Audit Services Limited.

Who funds ENTHUSE CHARITABLE TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name ENTHUSE CHARITABLE TRUST as a grant recipient include THE SPECTRIS FOUNDATION, THE APAX FOUNDATION, THE DAVID BROWNLOW CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE SPECTRIS FOUNDATION	FY2024	£100k	Continued Professional Development (CPD) program
THE SPECTRIS FOUNDATION	FY2022	£100k	Support five new STEM learning partnerships across the UK
THE SPECTRIS FOUNDATION	FY2025	£100k	One-year grant towards CPD program
THE APAX FOUNDATION	FY2025	£81k	Social mobility
THE DAVID BROWNLOW CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2023	£250	Educational Donations

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
UK government	01/04/2020	£970k	Project Enthuse
UK government	—	£1.0m	Project ENTHUSE

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE JOSEPH ROWNTREE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£117k
NETWORK FOR SOCIAL CHANGE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£19k
SAMJO LIMITED	1	£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OPENTRUST.

OPENTRUST income £246k
THE COMMONWEALTH EDUCATION TRUST income £104k
PACT EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £7.1m
EQUITABLE CHARITY TRUST income £367k
THE OVERSTALL CHARITABLE TRUST income £35k
LONDON EDUCATION TRUST income £231k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
ENTHUSE CHARITABLE TRUST	£3.4m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
OPENTRUST FY2025	£246k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE COMMONWEALTH EDUCATION TRUST FY2025	£104k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
PACT EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED FY2024	£7.1m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
EQUITABLE CHARITY TRUST FY2024	£367k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE OVERSTALL CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£35k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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