THE AWEN PROJECT

Registered charity 1186305 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Awen Project is pioneering a human-centred model for education where children are valued as people in their own right within in a community. Our vision is to co-create a network of learning communities throughout the world where every human is valued. Our team of creative facilitators are developing a relationship-based pedagogy that will form the basis of a new model for education.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF, OR ASSISTING IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF, SCHOOLS THAT ARE GOVERNED BY PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Vale of Glamorgan, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £19,187 for the year ended 31 August 2025, increasing unrestricted reserves to £21,526. The trustees confirm that future reserves and income are sufficient to meet current commitments, with no material uncertainties affecting the going concern basis. However, the trustees note that the charity is still young and has not yet established reliable long-term income sources, relying on grants and donations.

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

What the accounts disclose

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Policies the charity declares

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Awen Project (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Eva Armstrong
• Hannah Fitt
• Sean Bellamy

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Side by side with its peers

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