THE SAVOY EDUCATIONAL TRUST

Registered charity 1161014 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The main aim of the Savoy Educational Trust is the advancement and development of education and learning within the hospitality industry. The Trust does this by awarding grants to schools, colleges and universities to benefit those studying hospitality. The Trust also seeks to support projects that will enhance current skills and continuing professional development for this industry.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO SUCH OBJECTS OR PURPOSES WHICH ARE RECOGNISED AS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES, INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR:I. FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO ADVANCE AND DEVELOP EDUCATION, TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT PARTICULARLY (ALTHOUGH NOT NECESSARILY OR EXCLUSIVELY) IN CONNECTION WITH THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY AND IN RELATION TO THE ATTAINMENT OF COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS APPROPRIATE TO THAT INDUSTRY.II. TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE ESPECIALLY, BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cotswold, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves stood at £66,129,487 at the year end, representing a decrease of £1,608,467 from the previous year. The trustees confirm that the charity is capable of meeting all liabilities comfortably and that there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to operate as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Angela Maher — Chief Executive (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.

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

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (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: 17.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/11/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• HOWARD FIELD FCA FHOSPAchair
• Anastasia Bloom
• DAVID TAYLOR FIH
• Dr SALLY MESSENGER
• Katharine Elizabeth Le Quesne
• Professor Peter Albert Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROBERT JONATHAN DAVIS MBE DL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Lowy
• William James Toner · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

• EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £73.8m
• THE SAW TRUST income £136k
• REVO EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £9k
• WINE AND SPIRIT EDUCATION TRUST income £22.7m
• THE SUTTON TRUST income £7.1m
• TRAINING AND RESEARCH GLOBAL EDUCATION TRUST income £280k

Side by side with its peers

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