THE TUTOR TRUST

Registered charity 1144043 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Tutor Trust is a not-for-profit charity based in Manchester that provides tuition to school children in disadvantaged areas.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity reported a net deficit of £0.3m for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a planned reduction in free reserves. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds decreased to £0.99m, with free reserves of £0.96m representing 3.1 months of operating costs, which remains within the stated policy target of three to six months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07771465

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ed Marsh — CEO (source)
• Abigail Shapiro — Co-Founder and Executive 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Allan and Gill Gray Foundation — “Our funders Allan and Gill Gray Foundation” (source page)
• The Education Endowment Foundation — “The Education Endowment Foundation” (source page)
• The John Armitage Charitable Trust — “The John Armitage Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Jongen Charitable Trust — “The Jongen Charitable Trust” (source page)
• MariaMarina Foundation — “MariaMarina Foundation” (source page)
• The Mohn Westlake Foundation — “The Mohn Westlake Foundation” (source page)
• The Stone Family Foundation — “The Stone Family Foundation” (source page)
• The Tuixen Foundation — “The Tuixen Foundation” (source page)
• UBS Optimus Foundation — “UBS Optimus Foundation” (source page)

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.

• WATKIN, Anna Katrin Martha — director, appointed 01/02/2023on trustee list
• OGLE, Navneet Kaur — director, appointed 26/10/2021on trustee list
• BANAHENE, Comfort Louise — director, appointed 07/09/2021on trustee list
• HANBURY, Martin Antony — director, appointed 07/09/2021on trustee list
• PRATTEN, Helen Louise — director, appointed 07/09/2021on trustee list
• NUTTALL, Jonathan Peter Thomas — director, appointed 27/08/2019on trustee list
• CROMPTON, Lucy Victoria — director, appointed 01/02/2014on trustee list
• MCINTYRE, Peter Jason — director, appointed 13/09/2011not on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (75% 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: 2.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETE MCINTYREchair
• Anna Katrin Martha Watkin
• David Charles Woolley
• Helen Louise Pratten
• Jonathan Peter Thomas Nuttall
• LUCY CROMPTON
• Louise Banahene
• Mark McKelvie
• Martin Hanbury
• Matthew Martin Cobbold
• Navneet Kaur Ogle
• Rebecca Jenkins

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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 TUTORS UNITED.

• TUTORS UNITED income £754k
• TUTOR THE NATION income £285k
• ACTION TUTORING income £2.9m
• TUTORFAIR FOUNDATION income £226k
• THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST income £142k
• THE TUDOR TRUST income £8.5m

Side by side with its peers

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