SCHOOL-LED DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Registered charity 1202423 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SLDT

Teacher Training

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, LEARNING AND RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BY BUT NOT LIMITED TO:1. PROVIDING EDUCATION AND COURSES OF STUDY, TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHERS AND SCHOOL LEADERS, NON-TEACHING STAFF AND TRAINEE TEACHERS;2. PROMOTING RESEARCH AND LEARNING INTO BEST PRACTICE IN THE DELIVERY AND IMPLEMENTATION OF TEACHER, NON-TEACHING STAFF AND TRAINEE TEACHER TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Blackburn with Darwen, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £1.51m for the year ended 31 July 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £2.63m. The trustees report a strong cash balance of £3.14m and short-term investments of £1.66m, noting that the institute operates with no external debt facilities. The Board considers the institute to have a sound platform of cash, investments, and growing reserves to support continued operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HW Fisher Audit. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £150,001 - £160,000 (FY2024) to £160,001 - £170,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Melanie Renowden — CEO (source)
• Sir Dan Moynihan — Chair (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.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (1,405 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 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 (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sir Daniel Moynihanchair
• Carole Willis
• Dame Colette Bowe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dame Rachel deSouza
• Dr Debbie McVitty
• John Barneby
• Lee Daniel Wilson
• Michael George Nicholson
• Sir David Eastwood
• Sir John Gieve
• Sir Mufti Hamid Patel
• Tiffany Crowell Beck OBE

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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• SOUTHBANK ENTERPRISE TRUST LTD. income £53k
• THE DAIGLEN SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £1.6m
• HERRIES EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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