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.

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Latest income
£1.7m
Latest spending
£1.8m
Registered
2020
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £89k for the year, driven by a significant drop in Department for Education contract income. However, unrestricted reserves remain robust at £1.53m, which the trustees note exceeds their stated policy target of 3-9 months of operating expenditure. The auditors confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified 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

Reserves policy: 3 to 9 months recurring operating expenditure (held: £1.5m)
“the level of free reserves should be equal to between 3 and 9 months recurring operating expenditure (i.e. between £452k and £1,356k).” — page 8
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: CHK Foundation donated £70,000 to Now Teach. C Kirwan-Taylor is a trustee of Now Teach and the CHK Foundation.
“C Kirwan-Taylor, a trustee, is also a trustee of the CHK Foundation. During the year the CHK Foundation donated £70,000 to Now Teach (2024: £nil). S Twiselton, a trustee, is also a trustee of the Teacher Development Trust. The Teacher Development Trust provided £250 of speaker fees in the year (2024: £nil). S Twiselton is also a trustee of Teach First. In 2024 Teach First provided £1,539 of strategy management support. L Heller, a trustee, is also the CEO of Ark. During the year Ark provided £250 of speaker related services. In 2024 Ark provided HR and IT support of £25,641.” — page 33
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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).

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

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

Total income
£1.7m
Total spending
£1.8m
Cost of raising funds
£92k
Reserves (reported)
£1.5m
Employees
19

Reported reserves equal ~10.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£1.7m£1.8m
31/08/2024£2.9m£2.2m
31/08/2023£2.1m£2.2m
31/08/2022£1.9m£1.7m
31/08/2021£2.2m£1.3m

Common questions

Is NOW TEACH financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £89k for the year, driven by a significant drop in Department for Education contract income. However, unrestricted reserves remain robust at £1.53m, which the trustees note exceeds their stated policy target of 3-9 months of operating expenditure. The auditors confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited.

Who funds NOW TEACH?

Funders whose own accounts filings name NOW TEACH as a grant recipient include THE MASTER CHARITABLE TRUST, THE JULIA RAUSING TRUST, AKO FOUNDATION, THE ROTHERMERE FOUNDATION, SLOANE ROBINSON FOUNDATION.

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.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE MASTER CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£475kAdvancement of education
THE JULIA RAUSING TRUSTFY2025£400kCore Costs 2024/25 - 2026/27
AKO FOUNDATIONFY2022£375kRecruiting experienced professionals to re-train as teachers
AKO FOUNDATIONFY2024£375kEducation
THE MASTER CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£250kThe prevention or relief of poverty
THE ROTHERMERE FOUNDATIONFY2025£50kOther charitable donations
SLOANE ROBINSON FOUNDATIONFY2025£25k
THE JORDAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2021£20k
CHK FoundationFY2024£10k
THE JORDAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2022£4k

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 TEACH2TEACH INTERNATIONAL.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
NOW TEACH£1.7m——above—no doubt
TEACH2TEACH INTERNATIONAL FY2025£198k—0unclear—no doubt
THE TEACHING AWARDS TRUST FY2025£638kin excess of £90,0001above—no doubt
The Professional Teaching Institute FY2025£1.4m——above—no doubt
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL-BASED TEACHER TRAINERS FY2025£719k——unclear—no doubt
THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOUNDATION FY2025£20.4m——above—no doubt

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