The Attwood Foundation

Registered charity 1149447 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ATTWOOD ACADEMIES TRUST, THE ATTWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION

The principal objects of the charity are the advancement of education for the public benefit in the United Kingdom in such ways as the Trustees think fit and in particular by:(i) Providing grants to schools(ii) Providing strategic support and governance to schools: and(iii) Providing facilities, resources or services to schools.

Objects

The objects of the Charity are for the public benefit: 1. To advance education in such ways as the Trustees think fit and in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the below by: a. providing grants to schools; b. providing strategic support and governance to schools;c. providing facilities, resources or services to schools; and 2. To promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment in such exclusively charitable ways as the Trustees think fit, including but not limited to activities relating to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Nothing in these Articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Charity for the purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased significantly from £607,664 to £353,318 due to charitable expenditure exceeding income. The trustees report no formal reserves policy, noting the charity has no ongoing commitments or operational activities. The filing confirms the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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 3 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures

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.

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 31/03/2023 (received 13/05/2024, 103 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• THOMAS ROGER ATTWOODchair
• Gail Hall · trustee of 1 other charity
• Samuel Attwood
• Sara Attwood
• Stephen Gough
• William Frank Attwood

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

Operates in: East Sussex · Kent

Income and spending

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