THE SUTTON TRUST

Registered charity 1146244 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Sutton Trust aims to improve educational opportunities for young people from non-privileged backgrounds and increase social mobility, in particular by supporting projects, policy advocacy and undertaking and commissioning research.

Objects

(A)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND TO IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE; AND (B)TO UNDERTAKE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR TO MAKE DONATIONS TO SUCH A CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS AT SUCH A TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased to £9.4m following a planned deficit of £0.3m, which was agreed to reduce reserves in line with the charity's policy. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £5.45m are sufficient to meet multi-year commitments and that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Rawlinson & Hunter Audit LLP. 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Sutton Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sir Peter Lampl — Founder (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 9.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/07/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/06/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ian Walshchair
• Erica Lyn Wax · trustee of 1 other charity
• Fiona Forbes
• Jardelle Mia Johnson
• Martin John Sullivan
• Stephen Mark Julius

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SCOUT ASSOCIATION.

• THE SCOUT ASSOCIATION income £46.9m
• SUTTON COMMUNITY WORKS income £423k
• THE SEKFORDE HOUSE TRUST income £96k
• SUTTON CENTRE UNDER 5S PLAYGROUP income £104k
• SEATON HOUSE SCHOOL LIMITED income £2.3m
• THE SOUTHDOWN SCHOOL TRUST income £144k

Side by side with its peers

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