NOW TEACH

Registered charity 1189146 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Now Teach carries out its purposes by increasing the number of high quality teachers entering thestate-funded education system through the methods outlined above, namely recruiting and supportingexperienced professionals to retrain as teachers and then providing those teachers to state-fundededucational institutions which are struggling to fill teaching vacancies.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) IN THE FIELD OF TEACHING BY PROVIDING TRAINING PROGRAMMES WHICH COMBINE STUDY-BASED LEARNING AND SUPERVISED PRACTICE-BASED LEARNING, AND BY ANY OTHER RELEVANT METHODS; AND(B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS IN ENGLAND & WALES, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY PROVIDING TRAINEE TEACHERS AND/OR LECTURERS TO EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS INCLUDING SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AND PROMOTING HIGH QUALITY PRACTICE AND LEADERSHIP IN THE FIELD OF TEACHING.

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 the charity incurred a deficit of £89k for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds. However, the trustees report that free reserves stood at £1,532k at year-end, which they consider appropriate to meet ongoing commitments despite exceeding their stated policy target of 3-9 months of expenditure. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. 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
• 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
• Investment
• 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)

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Now Teach (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Graihagh Crawshaw Sadler — CEO (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• AKO Foundation — “Our donors AKO Foundation” (source page)
• Ark Ventures — “FOUNDING PARTNERS Our thanks go out to Ark Ventures, Purposeful Ventures, Winton Philanthropies, and the Financial Times for their strategic…” (source page)
• Purposeful Ventures — “FOUNDING PARTNERS Our thanks go out to Ark Ventures, Purposeful Ventures, Winton Philanthropies, and the Financial Times for their strategic…” (source page)
• Winton Philanthropies — “FOUNDING PARTNERS Our thanks go out to Ark Ventures, Purposeful Ventures, Winton Philanthropies, and the Financial Times for their strategic…” (source page)
• Financial Times — “FOUNDING PARTNERS Our thanks go out to Ark Ventures, Purposeful Ventures, Winton Philanthropies, and the Financial Times for their strategic…” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~10.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (51% 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: 5.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Graham Clive Eltonchair
• Charles Kirwan-Taylor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Graeme Melville Danton
• JAMES BARRINGTON HUW DARLEY · trustee of 2 other charities
• Katharine Mary Waldegrave
• Lucy Heller
• Lucy Rosamond Kellaway · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paterno Atar Odong
• Prof Carole Samantha Twiselton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Craig

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Charles Kirwan-Taylor — trustee here and at CHK Foundation

Known funders

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

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 THE TEACHING AWARDS TRUST.

• THE TEACHING AWARDS TRUST income £638k
• THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL-BASED TEACHER TRAINERS income £719k
• GET FURTHER LTD income £1.6m
• INSPIRING TEACHERS income £395k
• Teach for Tomorrow income £536k
• The Professional Teaching Institute income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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