PASSION FOR LEARNING CIO

Registered charity 1181279 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PASSION FOR LEARNING CIC · filing overdue (register status)

Passion for Learning is a unique charity recruiting adults from all walks of life who could bring their experiences, enthusiasm and skills to children struggling to read and learn. PfL provides assistance and support to mainly primary school age children to develop their reading and writing skills, and raising their aspirations through continual enrichment.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AGED UP TO AND INCLUDING 16 YEARS BY (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) PROVIDING ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN TO DEVELOP THEIR READING AND WRITING SKILLS; AND(2) ANY EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES THAT THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME.

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: Cheshire West and Chester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £140,418 for the year, reducing its total unrestricted reserves to £96,296. The trustees note that the charity's continued operation is dependent on securing ongoing funding to replace sources that ended in early 2025, though they maintain a reasonable expectation that such funding will be secured. Despite this dependency, the charity maintains a reserves policy targeting three months of core expenditure, which it states has been maintained throughout the period.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

1 annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Passion For Learning (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~5.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (86% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carolyn McConnell
• Charles Gaskin
• DIANE CLARK
• JENNY RICH

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

Operates in: Cheshire West & Chester · Flintshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LITERACY VOLUNTEERS.

• LITERACY VOLUNTEERS income £123k
• ASSISTED READING FOR CHILDREN income £199k
• LEARNING ALLOWED CONNECT CIO income £61k
• LSSP income £907k
• PETTY POOL income £4.1m
• POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT FOR LEARNING CIO income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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