EDUCATION FUTURES TRUST

Registered charity 1146171 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Support to children, young people and families in order to improve life chances; delivery of courses to children young people and vulnerable adults; expertise in outdoor learning; therapeutic work; development and delivery of innovative practice in education; sharing and promoting best practice in education and training. The Education Futures Trust works in Hastings, Rye and the surrounding area.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN HASTINGS AND RYE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, BY SUCH CHARITABLE EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: HASTINGS AND RYE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hastings, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a planned deficit of just over £200,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling from £1,248,516 to £992,107. The trustees note that the charity entered the year with healthy unrestricted reserves, allowing it to responsibly absorb the overspend while maintaining strong financial controls. Per the trustees' report, the charity remains financially resilient and confident in its forward strategy to secure new funding and grow earned income.

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 4 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Education Futures Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~18.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Allison Mary Baineschair
• Alexandra Reed
• Hannah Michelle Brookshaw
• SIMON GEOFFREY HUBBARD
• STEPHEN JOHN MANWARING · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: East Sussex

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 SHEFFIELD FUTURES.

• SHEFFIELD FUTURES income £1.3m
• EDUCATION FOR LIFE income £256k
• EASTLEIGH YOUTH & COMMUNITY TRUST income £505k
• READING EDUCATION TRUST income £1.1m
• BRITISH FUTURE income £662k
• SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION income £32k

Side by side with its peers

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