THE NORLAND FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1180292 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of education in early years education, and the promotion of social inclusion among children of early years age and their families / carers who are socially excluded from society, or part of society, as a result of their social and economic position.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) EARLY YEARS EDUCATION, BY (BUT NOT LIMITED TO):(A) THE PROMOTION OF EFFECTIVE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF STUDENTS OR QUALIFIED CHILDCARE AND EDUCATION PRACTITIONERS IN ALL ASPECTS OF EARLY YEARS CARE AND THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN; (B) THE PROMOTION OF BEST PRACTICE IN EARLY YEARS CARE AND THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN GENERALLY; (C) THE PROVISION OF FUNDING FOR SPECIFIC PROJECTS AND / OR RESEARCH RELATING TO THE PROMOTION OF BEST PRACTICE IN EARLY YEARS CARE AND EDUCATION; THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) AMONG CHILDREN OF EARLY YEARS AGE AND THEIR FAMILIES / CARERS WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POSITION, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) THROUGH:(D) THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN OF EARLY YEARS AGE AND STUDENTS OR QUALIFIED CHILDCARE AND EDUCATION PRACTITIONERS OF EARLY YEARS EDUCATION; (E) THE PROVISION OF FUNDING FOR SPECIFIC PROJECTS AND / OR RESEARCH TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION; ANDTHE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OBJECTS OR PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE, "SOCIALLY EXCLUDED" MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY.

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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Registered contact address: Bath and North East Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group recorded total income of £6,715,709 and a net increase in funds of £338,950 for the year ended 31 July 2025. Per the trustees' report, the Group held total net assets of £8,283,733, with unrestricted reserves of £5,254,492 and designated reserves of £2,670,000. The Trustees confirmed that the Charity and Group remain a going concern with adequate resources to meet their obligations.

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 2 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 policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARTIN COURTENAY CLARKEchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• CHRISTOPHER PETER HARE
• David Arthur Peck
• Michael Bray
• PETER HOWARD WATKINS · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE GORDON FOUNDATION.

• THE GORDON FOUNDATION income £21.8m
• NORLAND FUN CLUB income £139k
• NORTHERN LEARNING TRUST income £890k
• THE NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION income £46k
• NORTH LONDON WELFARE AND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £6.6m
• ST ANDREWS PRE-SCHOOL LIMITED income £231k

Side by side with its peers

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