THORNTON EDUCATION TRUST ("TET")

Registered charity 1191408 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Embed architecture and urban design in children's education and give a voice to young people within their local physical environment through building a network of built environment professionals, educationists and teachers across the UK to support their work and embed youth-led design approaches. This is achieved through Awards, Forums, Resource Bank, Research and Policy.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE SUBJECT OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH CREATIVE LEARNING, THE PROVISION OF GRANTS, RESOURCES AND RESEARCH TO SUPPORT TEACHERS AND EDUCATIONALISTS.

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 · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bath and North East Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £2,587 for the year, with unrestricted reserves standing at £16,772. The trustees consider these reserves, alongside good fundraising prospects, to be sufficient for continuing activities. The charity is entirely dependent on voluntary income and holds no fixed assets or investments.

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

What the accounts disclose

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Victoria Thornton OBEchair
• NEIL PINDER · trustee of 1 other charity
• kenneth allinson RIBA

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ENTERPRISE CENTRE LIMITED.

• THE ENTERPRISE CENTRE LIMITED income £121k
• THETFORD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION TRUST income £79k
• TEACHERS GROUP EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £179k
• THE SAYERS CROFT ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £107k
• CARLTON EDUCATIONAL CHARITY income £148k
• OLD ETONIAN TRUST(THE) income £422k

Side by side with its peers

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