THE CENTRE FOR TRANSFORMING ACCESS AND STUDENT OUTCOMES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Registered charity 1193025 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TASO

For the public benefit, the advancement of education in the UK by:a. undertaking, supporting and disseminating the useful results of research into inequality of opportunity toobtain access to education and, in particular, barriers to accessing HE; andb. to support, and promote access to education for those facing barriers to access.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY:A. UNDERTAKING, SUPPORTING AND DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF RESEARCH INTO INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY TO OBTAIN ACCESS TO EDUCATION AND, IN PARTICULAR, BARRIERS TO ACCESSING HIGHER EDUCATION; ANDB. TO SUPPORT, AND PROMOTE ACCESS TO EDUCATION FOR THOSE FACING BARRIERS TO ACCESS INCLUDING (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) AS A RESULT OF SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUND, AGE, RACE, DISABILITY, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR RELIGION.

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 reported a net surplus of £109,835 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £528,179. The trustees note that while they aim to hold three months of expenditure in reserves, they are currently unable to fulfill this aim due to existing funding arrangements, though they rely on monthly requests for funds from the Office for Students.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Innovi Advisors Ltd. 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 12482580 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Omar Khan — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Dr Lauren Bellaera — Chief Research Officer (source)
• Rachael Firth — Chief Operating Officer (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).

• Office for Students — “It is funded by the Office for Students and is an affiliate What Works Centre, and part of the UK government’s What Works Network.” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SOGBETUN, Temidire Olufunmilola Idah — director, appointed 19/06/2025on trustee list
• NJOROGE, Jacqueline — director, appointed 31/01/2025on trustee list
• SIMPSON, Grace Elizabeth Pollard — director, appointed 05/10/2023on trustee list
• WESTON, Rebecca Hanalore — director, appointed 05/10/2023not on trustee list
• PATEL, Hamir — director, appointed 05/10/2023on trustee list
• SMITH, Joshua William — director, appointed 05/10/2023on trustee list
• HUME, Susannah Summers — director, appointed 13/12/2022on trustee list
• WOOLLEY, David John — director, appointed 13/12/2022on trustee list
• SHORTHOUSE, Ryan Paul — director, appointed 01/04/2021on trustee list
• MCNEIL, Jane — director, appointed 01/04/2021on trustee list
• SIMMONS, Eunice Angela, Professor — director, appointed 25/02/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 21.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr EUNICE SIMMONSchair
• David Woolley
• Grace Simpson
• Hamir Patel
• Jacqueline Njoroge
• Jane McNeil
• Joshua Smith
• Rebecca Hollington
• Ryan Shorthouse
• Susannah Hume
• Temidire Sogbetun

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY INSTITUTE.

• HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY INSTITUTE income £842k
• THE ACCESS PROJECT income £3.1m
• THE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT income £259k
• TRANSFORM SCHOOLS UK income £128k
• The London Foundation for Banking & Finance income £587k
• CAUSEWAY EDUCATION LTD income £772k

Side by side with its peers

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