BAKER DEARING EDUCATIONAL TRUST

Registered charity 1138894 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Baker Dearing Educational Trust licenses UTCs (University Technical Colleges). The Charity offers guidance and support to UTCs to help them ensure high standards of education and financial viability and liaises between sponsors, the UTCs themselves and the Department for Education.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves fell significantly to £8,985, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £250,000. However, the trustees report that free cash reserves stood at £356,547 and express confidence that current fundraising commitments will ensure appropriate funding, with no material uncertainties identified regarding going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Griffin Stone Moscrop & Co. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Baker Dearing Educational Trust announces second #thinkUTC Week to celebrate technical education and industry partnerships themanufacturer.com · 10/11/2025

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Stephen Phipson CBE — Chairman (source)
• Kate Ambrosi — Chief Executive Officer (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (55% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/08/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Ward
• Clive Barker
• James Wade
• Nischint Kaur Lall
• Oswin James Baker
• Paul Adrian Birt
• Purmindar Kaur Gandhu
• Stephen Phipson
• Yvonne Mason

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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Funders of similar charities

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE REED EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED.

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Side by side with its peers

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