GREAT OAKS CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1188094 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity, commonly known as Great Oaks College, is established to provide extended educational opportunities to young adults who have learning difficulties in West London. Our educational programmes are designed to prepare students for active lives, increasing the opportunities available to them through increased independence.

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £1,363,604 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total net assets of £5,574,882. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves are £5,398,313, which is below the stated policy target of approximately £5m (12 months of operational expenditure) due to investment activity in new premises. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's 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 Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2024) to £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Great Oaks College (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Nickyie Thomas — Principal (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £6.2m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Killian O'Sullivanchair
• Camilla Thompsell
• Harvinder Nandhra
• Robert Alexander
• Shaminder Kaur Rayatt
• Timothy Brennan

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

Operates in: Hounslow

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

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.

Charities like this

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

• GREAT OAKS SMALL SCHOOL income £1.9m
• HILDEN OAKS SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £2.5m
• LITTLE OAKS income £260k
• THE OAKES TRUST (SHEFFIELD) income £670k
• OAKHILL EDUCATION TRUST income £1.8m
• GREAT OAKS HOSPICE income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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