ASCENTIS

Registered charity 1129180 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Awarding Organisation and Access Validating Agency providing qualifications to individuals through education and training providers. The charity also develops learning resources and a specific electronic programme which acts as a literacy intervention.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a modest operating deficit for the year ended 31 July 2025, with group income decreasing marginally compared to the previous year. Despite this, the trustees confirmed that free reserves of £3.4m remain in line with their stated policy target of 4 to 9 months of normal charitable expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis 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 MHA. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06799564
• Trading subsidiary: INTERNATIONAL DYSLEXIA LEARNING SOLUTIONS LIMITED Companies House 08345446

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Phil Wilkinson — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Stephen Carlisle — Chair of the Board (source)
• Fiona Lugiano — Deputy Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Paul Howarth — Commercial Director (source)
• Andrew Lord — Director of Compliance & Quality Assurance (source)
• Emma Knight — Director of People and Culture (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.

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.

• TSUI-LAU, Ella — director, appointed 11/03/2026on trustee list
• RAWES, Charlotte Elizabeth — director, appointed 20/05/2025on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Jessica Jane — director, appointed 16/05/2022on trustee list
• DAVIES, Kathleen Rosemarie — director, appointed 25/11/2013on trustee list
• CARLISLE, Stephen — director, appointed 23/06/2011on trustee list
• LUGIANO, Fiona Victoria — secretary, appointed 04/01/2011

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEPHEN CARLISLEchair
• Charlotte Elizabeth Rawes
• Ella Tsui-Lau
• Jessica Robinson
• Kathleen Rosemarie Davies
• PHILIP CHARLES WILKINSON

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

Operates in: China · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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