SOUTHWARK COMMUNITY EDUCATION CHARITY ("SCEC")

Registered charity 1185489 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOUTHWARK COMMUNITY EDUCATION CHARITY

Provision of enrichment and supplementary education classes on Saturday mornings during term time for children of primary school age attending maintained schools in the London Boroughs of Southwark, Lambeth and Lewisham.

Objects

SCEC IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION WITHIN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK AND NEIGHBOURING BOROUGHS BY OPERATING A SCHEME OR SCHEMES OF ENRICHMENT LESSONS FOR CHILDREN OF PRIMARY SCHOOL AGE TO PROMOTE LEARNING, MOTIVATION AND CONFIDENCE AMONG SUCH CHILDREN.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£65k

Latest spending

£85k

Registered

2019

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net outgoing resource of £19,549 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves from £415,874 to £396,325. The trustees report holding approximately £300,000 in reserve to support future operating budgets and potential expansion, noting that these funds are held in short-term cash deposits.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: half the annual budgeted expenditure (reserves figure: £396k)

“ideally half the annual budgeted expenditure in case of a shortfall in donations or an unexpected expenditure.” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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
Conflicting interests
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
Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2025

Volunteers: 130

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2024

Volunteers: 61

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/08/2023

Volunteers: 97

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

Register events

Received assets from another charity (29/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Alexandra Cambourischair
Alexandra Helen Fiona Swann
Angela Batchelor
Catrin Eluned Jones Sherwood
Dr Toby Giles Anderson Griffiths MA DPhil
Isobel Baylis
Jenny Stanley
Kerri-Anne Bahth
Maiken Muhlendorph Vestergaard-Poulsen
Melissa Victoria Fife
Nicola Blair
Rhona Elizabeth Muir MA MSc MA
Rohit Gulati

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

Operates in: Lambeth · Lewisham · Southwark

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£65k	£85k
31/08/2024	£288k	£65k
31/08/2023	£180k	£62k
31/08/2022	£120k	£62k
31/08/2021	£16k	£20k

Common questions

Is SOUTHWARK COMMUNITY EDUCATION CHARITY ("SCEC") financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity incurred a net outgoing resource of £19,549 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves from £415,874 to £396,325. The trustees report holding approximately £300,000 in reserve to support future operating budgets and potential expansion, noting that these funds are held in short-term cash deposits. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE SOUTH LONDON CHURCH FUND AND SOUTHWARK DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE	1	£1.4m
UNITED ST SAVIOUR'S CHARITY	1	£258k
THE PETER MINET TRUST	1	£116k
THE MERCERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£65k
THE AURUM CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£60k
CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON	1	£50k
THE TRUE COLOURS TRUST	1	£8k
THE MSE CHARITY	1	£7k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUPPLEMENTARY SCHOOL.

SUPPLEMENTARY SCHOOL income £150k
WESTMINSTER SUPPLEMENTARY SCHOOL income £38k
THE SOUTHWARK DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION (INCORPORATED) income £8.8m
SOUTHWARK DAY CENTRE FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS income £487k
WEST SMETHWICK ENTERPRISE income £824k
SPEKE TRAINING AND EDUCATION CENTRE LIMITED income £389k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
SOUTHWARK COMMUNITY EDUCATION CHARITY ("SCEC")	£65k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
SUPPLEMENTARY SCHOOL FY2025	£150k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
WESTMINSTER SUPPLEMENTARY SCHOOL FY2025	£38k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE SOUTHWARK DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION (INCORPORATED) FY2025	£8.8m	—	—	below	—	no doubt
SOUTHWARK DAY CENTRE FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS FY2025	£487k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
WEST SMETHWICK ENTERPRISE FY2025	£824k	—	0	below	—	no doubt

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