WORCESTER CHRISTIAN EDUCATION TRUST

Registered charity 1171394 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE RIVER SCHOOL

Supporting Christian education in Worcester

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN PARTICULAR BUT EXCLUSIVELY THOSE RESIDENT IN THE CITY OF WORCESTER AND THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURHOOD; AND(B) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF WORCESTER AND THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURHOOD.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £230,230 are currently below the trustees' stated policy target of £100,000, although the trustees consider the going concern basis appropriate due to careful budgeting. The charity reports a net surplus for the year of £19,174, with total income of £924,524 against charitable expenditure of £905,350. Principal financial risks identified include the impact of VAT on school fees, rising employment costs, and higher non-staff overheads.

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 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £265k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER ROBERT HUNT
• Clare Morgan
• Daniel George Todorov
• Kathryn Badger
• Natalie Holman

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).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITY CHURCH WORCESTER.

• CITY CHURCH WORCESTER income £196k
• WORCESTER BAPTIST CHURCH income £126k
• WYCLIF INDEPENDENT CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £618k
• BATH CHRISTIAN TRUST income £2.6m
• The King's School Worcester Charitable Trust income £494k
• WORCESTER COLLEGE OXFORD ENDOWMENT TRUST income £3.0m

Side by side with its peers

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