GREENPOWER EDUCATION TRUST

Registered charity 1133536 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC046969 (OSCR)

The primary objective of Greenpower is to inspire young people to excel in science, technology, engineering andmathematics through a unique challenge: to design, build and race an electric car. To achieve this, thecharity develops car kits, parts and the technical regulations for the events it arranges; enabling participants to experience competing and problem solving in teams.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE SUBJECTS OF SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY TO YOUNG PEOPLE.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Arun, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £24,202 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £1,410,115 and total expenditure of £1,385,913. Unrestricted free reserves stood at £96,812, which is below the stated policy target of three months' unrestricted expenditure (approximately £158,000). The trustees and auditors confirmed the charity is a going concern with positive bank balances and forecast growth.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lewis Brownlee (Chichester) Limited. Discloses 4 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 20/11/2022, 20 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (84% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Natasha Sophie Vracaschair
• Andrew Browne
• Dr Joshua James Dyson
• Elizabeth Ann Craven
• Harry Sherrard
• Peter Joseph Coyle
• Sara Nicola Anne Lennon
• Simon Robert Smith
• Stuart Daniel Morgan
• VAUGHAN RICHARD CLARKE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Yeukai Chikowore

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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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GREENPEACE ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST.

• GREENPEACE ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST income £14.5m
• GREEN LIGHT TRUST income £2.7m
• GLOBAL GENERATION income £1.9m
• THE GREENBANK PROJECT income £3.0m
• GREENBANKS CARE TRUST income £26k
• GREEN SCHOOL RUNS income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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