EDCITY OFFICE

Registered charity 1184547 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

EdCity Office is a charitable company responsible for running the EdCity project office space in White City. The office building will bring together tenants including mission-aligned organisations who, individually and collectively, are aiming to transform outcomes for children in challenging circumstances in the UK and beyond.

Objects

THE ONLY OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO FURTHER SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF CHARITABLE RESOURCES.

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 general funds (free reserves) amounted to £6.0m, which is available to meet day-to-day working capital requirements. The trustees confirmed that the charity has sufficient resources to meet its liabilities as they fall due and identified no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue 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 Buzzacott Audit LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 11596797

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.

• GRIST, Laurie Catherine — director, appointed 18/07/2024on trustee list
• MORGAN, Sally, Baroness — director, appointed 11/03/2024on trustee list
• RUSSELL, Jacqueline Anne — director, appointed 20/07/2022on trustee list
• WACE, Ian Gerald Patrick — director, appointed 01/10/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~143.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

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: 75.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Baroness Sally Morgan · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ian Wace
• Jacqueline Russell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laurie Grist

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

Operates in: Hammersmith And Fulham

Income and spending

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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 WHITE CITY THEATRE PROJECT CIO.

• WHITE CITY THEATRE PROJECT CIO income £244k
• Open City income £1.1m
• ECKINGTON VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY income £209k
• MITCHELL CITY OF LONDON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £117k
• CITY TO CITY UK income £377k
• EDHI INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION UK income £6.3m

Side by side with its peers

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