SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS INNOVATING FOR RESULTS

Registered charity 1149143 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STIR

STIR is building a movement of teacher changemakers to address the global learning crisis. STIR searches for teachers in the system with a spark of innovation and commitment; networks changemakers together locally, so they can share and implement classroom 'micro-innovations', and influence peers; and then connects them to partners and policy makers who can support them to improve learning.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:(A) THE IDENTIFICATION, DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION OF NEW EDUCATIONAL METHODS TO ADVANCE AND FURTHER EDUCATION ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD; AND(B) THE PROMOTION OF SUCH OTHER PURPOSES BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £0.15 million for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily due to the closure of its India operations and foreign exchange losses. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £0.41 million, which represents just under three months of current annual budgeted spend and is broadly in line with the charity's reserves policy. The trustees confirmed that the charity will remain a going concern for at least the next 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott 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
• 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.

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 31/03/2021 (received 18/02/2022, 18 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

What the charity says about itself

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sharath Jeevan — 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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael Renvillardchair
• BIJOYA BANERJEA
• Euan Wilmshurst · trustee of 4 other charities
• JOHN AUSTEN KNIGHT
• Leah Anyanwu
• Louise Marie Henbest
• Sarah Eugenie Nokhanya Washington

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

Operates in: India · Uganda

Income and spending

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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 TEACH2TEACH INTERNATIONAL.

• TEACH2TEACH INTERNATIONAL income £198k
• TEACHBEYOND income £186k
• SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION income £32k
• THE TEACHING AWARDS TRUST income £638k
• REACH TO TEACH income £203k
• NOW TEACH income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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