The Centre For Entrepreneurs

Registered charity 1140102 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE NEW ENTREPRENEURS FOUNDATION

The Centre for Entrepreneurs is an entrepreneurship foundation. We work to make the country more entrepreneurial.Our activities focus on advancing the entrepreneurship agenda for the UK, through:Delivering entrepreneurial development programmes;Researching the state of entrepreneurship and how to unlock potential in neglected groups;Building thriving entrepreneurial communities.

Objects

1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, INCLUDING BY:(A) THE TEACHING OF BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS THROUGH SEMINARS, LECTURES, TRAINING COURSES; (B) THE FUNDING OF AND THE PROVISION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO UNDERTAKE BUSINESS INTERNSHIPS; AND(C) FUNDING AND UNDERTAKING STUDY AND RESEARCH IN BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP, PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH STUDY ARE DISSEMINATED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE; AND (2) THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING: (A) THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, TRAINING OR RETRAINING, PARTICULARLY AMONG UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE, AND PROVIDING UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE WITH BUSINESS TRAINING; (B) BRINGING TOGETHER COMMERCIAL PARTNERS, LOCAL AND NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AND PHILANTHROPIC AND CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OR BUSINESS ADVICE OR CONSULTANCY IN ORDER TO PROVIDE TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE IN CASES OF HARDSHIP OR OTHER FINANCIAL NEED THROUGH HELP IN SETTING UP THEIR OWN BUSINESS; AND(C) TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT THE REHABILITATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE OR HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN PRISONERS BY THE PROMOTION AND PROVISION OF BUSINESS EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PRISONS AND FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE JUST BEEN RELEASED FROM PRISON.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED.

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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Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £52,597 for the year, reducing its unrestricted reserves to £153,698. While these reserves exceed the trustees' policy target of 3-5 months' overhead expenditure, the independent examiner identified a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, primarily due to the significant retained losses of its trading subsidiary, CFE Trading Ltd.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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)

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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 31/03/2025 (received 28/04/2026, 87 days after the 31/01/2026 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Centre for Entrepreneurs (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~10.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (91% 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: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Oliver John Woodforde Pawlechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANDREW JOY
• Carolyn Dawson
• DEIRDRE MARIE STIRLING
• Joanna Santinon
• Joseph Hubback

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS.

• THE FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS income £6.4m
• SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS income £4.3m
• THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF ENTREPRENEURS TRUST income £55k
• CHARITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP income £4.3m
• THE ENTERPRISE CENTRE LIMITED income £121k
• THE CENTRE FOR INNOVATION IN VOLUNTARY ACTION income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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