UK CAT CONSORTIUM

Registered charity 1133667 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

UKCAT provides and develops a University admission test aiming to achieve greater fairness in selection to medicine and dentistry and widening participation in medical and dental training of under-represented groups. Through a research programme UKCAT is seeking to identify characteristics in applicants that will make them good dentists/doctors with the ultimate aim of improving patient care.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE: TO PROMOTE AND PROVIDEFOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN PARTICULAR WITHOUTPREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING TO ESTABLISH AND OPERATE, TESTS TO AIDSELECTION FOR ADMISSION TO DEGREE AND OTHER COURSES REQUIRING CLINICALCOMPETENCIES

Area of benefit: THE UNITED KINGDOM

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 surplus of £48,750 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted funds carried forward of £1,136,353. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis of accounting. Reserves stand at £1.1m, which is noted as 39% of annual expenditure, slightly above the target range of 25-30%.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lakin Rose 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05620264

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.

• FERGUSON, Gail, Dr — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• GRAY, James Thorburn, Dr — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• TARMEY, Drew Simon, Dr — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• KRSTIC, Courtney Martine, Dr — director, appointed 08/01/2025on trustee list
• HAYFRON-BENJAMIN, Maria Julia — director, appointed 05/02/2024on trustee list
• CORK, Simon Christopher, Dr — director, appointed 05/02/2024on trustee list
• CUNNINGHAM, Claudia Margaret, Dr — director, appointed 05/02/2024on trustee list
• IRELAND, Beverley Ruth — director, appointed 05/02/2024on trustee list
• COPE, Natalie Alexandra, Dr — director, appointed 01/02/2021on trustee list
• PATON, Emma Louise — director, appointed 01/02/2021on trustee list
• SARTANIA, Nana, Dr — director, appointed 01/02/2021on trustee list
• HAMPSHIRE, Amanda Jayne, Dr — director, appointed 01/01/2018on trustee list
• PETTY-SAPHON, Kathleen Margaret, Dr — director, appointed 11/11/2005on trustee list
• GREATRIX, Rachel Ann — secretary, appointed 01/07/2009

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Beverley Ireland
• DR KATHLEEN MARGARET PETTY-SAPHON · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Amanda Jayne Hampshire
• Dr Claudia Margaret Cunningham
• Dr Courtney Martine Krstic
• Dr Drew Tarmey
• Dr Gail Ferguson
• Dr James Gray
• Dr Nana Sartania
• Dr Natalie Alexandra Cope
• Dr Simon Christopher Cork
• Emma Paton
• Maria Julia Hayfron-Benjamin

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

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

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UK ADVISING AND TUTORING.

• UK ADVISING AND TUTORING income £125k
• INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN MEDICAL AND DENTAL ASSOCIATION (UK) CIO income £1.9m
• MEDICAL SCHOOLS COUNCIL income £2.7m
• THE COLLEGE OF GENERAL DENTISTRY income £735k
• GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL income £171.5m
• BRITISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION TRUST FUND income £883k

Side by side with its peers

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