ASPIRE LIVERPOOL

Registered charity 1196570 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Aspire Liverpool has developed a program for two cohorts, our Year 10 Inspire and Year 12 Reaching Higher cohorts. Each cohort has the opportunity to experience Oxbridge style lectures and workshops once per month, and since 2022, Aspire has also run 4 successful residential trips to Oxford and Cambridge for both of its cohorts, with the aim of showing students that Oxbridge can be for them.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PUPILS IN THE LIVERPOOL CITY REGION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY RAISING THE ASPIRATIONS AND MAXIMISING THE POTENTIAL OF PUPILS ATTENDING SCHOOLS IN LIVERPOOL, TO GAIN PLACES IN TOP RANKED UNIVERSITIES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, MENTORING, LECTURES, SKILLS TRAINING, TRIPS TO UNIVERSITIES, UNIVERSITY APPLICATION SUPPORT AND ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PROVISION THAT IS CONSISTENT WITH THIS OBJECT.

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 generated a surplus of £19,380 for the year ended February 2025, with unrestricted reserves standing at £56,146. This figure significantly exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of £12,623, which covers redundancy provisions and three months' running costs. The trustees confirm that liquidity and free reserves are adequate to continue operations for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Funders the charity credits

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

• Sir Terry Leahy — “Sir Terry Leahy, Trustee & Donor, Aspire Liverpool” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rachel Stalkerchair
• Andrew John Gossage
• Sir Terence Patrick Leahy
• William Christopher Currie

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

Operates in: Liverpool City

Income and spending

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