THE PARK EDUCATION LTD

Registered charity 1198372 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Education provision working with young people aged 16-24, mainly who have an EHCP.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL COURSES TO YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 14-25 TO DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

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 incoming resources increased to £568,744 while expenditure rose to £576,629, resulting in a net deficit of £7,885. Free/unrestricted reserves decreased from £12,062 to £4,177, which the trustees describe as a level consistent with established good business practice and prudent risk management. The trustees confirm adequate resources to continue in operational existence 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Investing charity funds 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
• 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).

• The Spielman Charitable Trust — “The Spielman Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The Basil Brown Charitable Trust — “The Basil Brown Charitable Trust” (source page)
• City of Bristol College — “City of Bristol College” (source page)
• Bernard Sunley Foundation — “Bernard Sunley Foundation” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Garfield Weston Foundation” (source page)
• Pople Charitable Trust — “Pople Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Medlock Charitable Trust — “Medlock Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Pople Charitable Foundation — “Pople Charitable Foundation” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Avril Baker · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Freed
• Helen Holland · trustee of 4 other charities
• Iain Neary
• Jane Britton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lucio Mesquita · trustee of 1 other charity
• Neil Way · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philip Neil Briggs · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PARKSIDE SCHOOL TRUST.

• PARKSIDE SCHOOL TRUST income £4.5m
• CAUSEWAY EDUCATION LTD income £772k
• YOUTH EXPERIENCE IN SPORT income £133k
• DURSTON HOUSE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £6.9m
• AL RISALAH EDUCATION TRUST income £1.5m
• EASTLEIGH YOUTH & COMMUNITY TRUST income £505k

Side by side with its peers

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