ECI SCHOOLS

Registered charity 1150171 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ECIS

The charity delivered child protection training and governance training (online, with assessment), reduced pricing for professional conferences and advisory services, emergency planning management, access to ECIS research, and funding (grants and fellowships). The charity launched a free global community platform for educators worldwide, as a public benefit.

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 surplus of £275,376 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £1,117,495. Per the trustees' report, these free reserves are in excess of the stated policy target of six months of operating costs (£546,031). The trustees and auditors confirm the organization remains a going concern with no material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08109626

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Kam Chohan — Executive Director (source)
• Richard Parker — Board Chair (source)
• Francesco Banchini — Director (source)
• Abhimanyu Basu — CEO (source)
• Liam Browne — Superintendent (source)
• Pascale Hertay — General Director (source)
• Rachel Hovington — Campus Principal (source)
• Courtney Lowe — Director (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BANCHINI, Francesco — director, appointed 08/06/2026not on trustee list
• BROWNE, Liam — director, appointed 20/06/2025not on trustee list
• BASU, Abhimanyu — director, appointed 20/06/2025not on trustee list
• HOVINGTON, Rachel Elizabeth — director, appointed 01/06/2023on trustee list
• LOWE, Joel Courtney — director, appointed 01/06/2023on trustee list
• PELONIS, Paraskevi Peggy — director, appointed 08/06/2022on trustee list
• PARKER, Richard James — director, appointed 12/04/2021on trustee list
• HERTAY, Pascale Olga Alberte — director, appointed 05/05/2020on trustee list
• CHOHAN, Kam — secretary, appointed 31/03/2020

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dahi Al Fadhli
• Dr Kathryn Anne Miner
• Joel Courtney Lowe
• LaTyia Annette Rolle
• Paraskevi Peggy Pelonis
• Pascale Olga Alberte Hertay
• Rachel Elizabeth Hovington
• Richard James Parker
• Thomas Cormac Egerton
• Timothy James Kelley

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

Operates in: Abu Dhabi · Albania · Armenia · Australia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Bahrain · Bangladesh · Belgium · Brazil · Bulgaria · Burkina Faso

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT LIMITED.

• INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT LIMITED income £479k
• EASINGTON LANE COMMUNITY ACCESS POINT income £402k
• EXETER CONSORTIUM CIO income £390k
• COMMUNITY EDUCATION INSTITUTE income £231k
• AL-ISLAH SCHOOLS TRUST income £283k
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Side by side with its peers

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