SCHOOL-LED DEVELOPMENT TRUST

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

Teacher Training

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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.

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

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 (3.8%) (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

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE OPEN SCHOOL TRUST income £1.6m
• JEWISH TEACHERS' TRAINING COLLEGE income £3.8m
• Town Close Educational Trust Ltd income £6.2m
• INSPIRING TEACHERS income £395k
• NATIONAL NUMERACY income £2.2m
• THE ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL TRUST income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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