CHALLENGE PARTNERS

Registered charity 1149266 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Challenge Partners is an England-wide school improvement partnership. We foster collaboration and challenge between schools and school trusts through programmes, networks and knowledge sharing activities which drive upwards convergence across the education system.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY) BY PROMOTING AND SUPPORTING THE IMPROVEMENT OF SCHOOLS REGIONALLY, NATIONALLY OR INTERNATIONALLY.

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity concluded the year in a stable financial position with unrestricted reserves of £654,845, which exceeds the stated policy target of £580,000. The charity generated a surplus of £117,328 from total income of £3,289,577 and total expenditure of £3,172,249. The trustees report no material uncertainties regarding the going concern status of the organisation.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 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
• 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.

What the charity says about itself (2024/25)

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

• Dr Kate Chhatwal OBE — CEO (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Linda Beane
• Dr Kate Chhatwal
• Folake Jumoke Anike Agbaniyaka
• Gary John Lewis
• Heather Duggan
• Janine Harion
• Lucinda Eleanor Ingram
• Pavandeep Bansal
• Rachel Louise Hargreaves
• Susanna Jane Eastham

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS.

• LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS income £688k
• SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS ALLIANCE income £133k
• THE PARTNERING INITIATIVE income £856k
• THE CHALLENGER TRUST income £50k
• Challenger Academy Limited income £131k
• EDUCATION SUPPORT PARTNERSHIP income £4.6m

Side by side with its peers

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