Bristol Early Years Teaching Hub

Registered charity 1156798 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEYTC, BRISTOL EARLY YEARS TEACHING CONSORTIUM

BEYTH is a Hub of Excellence for Early Years Pedagogy. Our aim is to improve outcomes for young children and their families. We learn from the very best most innovative teaching practice and leadership models in order to provide dynamic, collaborative continued professional development opportunities for the Early Years staff. Our aim is to improve outcomes for young children and their families.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (THE OBJECTS) ARE:- THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF CHILDREN, PARTICULARLY (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) OF EARLY YEARS AGE, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY PROVIDING EDUCATION AND TRAINING AND DEVELOPING THE SKILLS OF PRACTITIONERS OF EARLY YEARS EDUCATION;- THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE TRAINING OF PRACTITIONERS OF EARLY YEARS EDUCATION; AND- THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) AMONG CHILDREN OF EARLY YEARS AGE AND THEIR FAMILIES/CARERS WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR A PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POSITION, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) THROUGH THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN OF EARLY YEARS AGE AND PRACTITIONERS OF EARLY YEARS EDUCATION;FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) IN THE BRISTOL AREA AND IN THESE OBJECTS "EARLY YEARS" IN RELATION TO CHILDREN MEANS CHILDREN UP TO AND INCLUDING THE AGE OF 7 YEARS OLD.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a deficit of £90,080 and unrestricted reserves of £129,961. The trustees report confidence in sufficient working capital to meet obligations, citing projections that income will cover costs. However, financial sustainability is identified as the major risk due to reliance on grants and commissions.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08917017

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.

• CARRINGTON, Ali — director, appointed 16/05/2019on trustee list
• THEOBALD, Nicola Jane — director, appointed 16/05/2019on trustee list
• STEVENS DRIVER, Lucy Elizabeth — director, appointed 28/02/2014not on trustee list
• GOSSAN, Eva Susan — secretary, appointed 01/08/2020

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ali Carrington
• MS LUCY ELIZABETH DRIVER
• Nicola Theobald

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).