THE TURING TRUST

Registered charity 1156687 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC046150 (OSCR)

The Turing Trust aims to improve education and employability by:improving access to information technologies by sourcing and then refurbishing used IT equipment,developing learning software for independent learning,teacher training to improve the quality of education delivered,and promoting equality and diversity in the field of technology.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity returned a surplus of £184,715 in 2025, driven principally by a £200,000 legacy donation. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £58,989 were held at year-end, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their stated policy target of one month of working capital. The charity maintains strong liquidity with cash funds of £682,655 and net current assets of £839,286.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Millet Audit Ltd. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Ukraine Educational Initiatives Foundation — “With support from the Turing Trust and Ukraine Educational Initiatives Foundation, Reusing IT has now distributed over 2,000 computers to sc…” (source page)
• Rotary Club of Currie Balerno — “The Rotary Club of Currie Balerno has a been a significant sponsor of The Turing Trust since 2012 with both financial donations to support s…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/06/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Dermot Turingchair
• Bernard Hollywood OBE
• Dr Lumbani Mwafulirwa
• Lilian Wanjiku Ndirangu
• Lillian Owiti
• Stella Kagwiria Muthuri

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

Operates in: Kenya · Malawi · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 The Worshipful Company of Turners Charitable Trust.

• The Worshipful Company of Turners Charitable Trust income £185k
• THE TUTOR TRUST income £3.4m
• TURN TRUST income £672k
• THE ALAN TURING INSTITUTE income £49.0m
• The TechSoup Trust income £1.2m
• THE TUDOR TRUST income £8.5m

Side by side with its peers

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