ARK UK PROGRAMMES

Registered charity 1137932 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ARK SCHOOLS, ASSEMBLY, MATHEMATICS MASTERY

Ark UK Programmes has the principal objective of advancing the education of the public. It acts as a 'seed-bed' for creating and testing new Ark programmes and supporting other ventures to launch and scale.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £0.2m for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income rising to £7.3m. The trustees consider the level of free reserves to be satisfactory, noting that unrestricted funds of £37k are in line with the policy of remaining below £100k. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate 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 Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

What the charity says about itself (2025)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Tina Alexandrou — Chair (source)
• Rose Dixon — Director (source)
• Laurie Grist — Director (source)
• Katie Oliver — Director (source)
• Jacqueline Russell — Chief Finance Officer (source)
• Venessa Willms OBE — Managing Director (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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~15.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (50% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jacqueline Russell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katie Oliver
• LORD STANLEY FINK · trustee of 2 other charities
• Patrick Wall · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• LORD STANLEY FINK — trustee here and at ABSOLUTE RETURN FOR KIDS (ARK)

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ABSOLUTE RETURN FOR KIDS (ARK).

• ABSOLUTE RETURN FOR KIDS (ARK) income £6.4m
• THE ARK FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE income £391k
• THE ARK COMMUNITY CHURCH income £115k
• THE ARC income £1.4m
• THE ASSOCIATION FOR REAL CHANGE income £1.7m
• ARK HOUSING TRUST income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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