EDUCATION ALLIANCE FOR LIFE CHANCES

Registered charity 1211984 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EALC

Education Alliance for Life Chances will advance education for children and young people in a variety of ways. It will work in partnership with beneficiaries, public institutions including schools and colleges, research bodies and community groups to develop evidence-based projects which will support children and young people to be better able to engage and succeed in their education.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN BRADFORD:- TO ADVANCE EDUCATION; AND- TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE,IN SUCH A MANNER AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE, AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY TACKLING INEQUALITIES AND ENHANCING LIFE CHANCES OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND OTHERS IN NEED, THROUGH WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BENEFICIARIES, PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS INCLUDING SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES AND COMMUNITY GROUPS, AND PROVIDING RESOURCES, SUPPORT AND OPPORTUNITIES.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £205,624 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £427,687 against expenditure of £222,063. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves held at the year-end were £83,335, which is below the stated policy target of 3–6 months of core operating costs. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne-Marie Canning MBEchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• John Mark Winkley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kathrine Alix Waring
• Lyndsey Brown
• Professor Nadira Mirza
• William James Richardson

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

Operates in: Bradford City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EDUCATION FOR LIFE.

• EDUCATION FOR LIFE income £256k
• ACTION WITH AWARENESS REGARDING EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £173k
• THE FAIR EDUCATION ALLIANCE income £824k
• LIFE EDUCATION CENTRE FOR LANCASHIRE income £276k
• WORKING OPTIONS IN EDUCATION income £620k
• LEARNING PARTNERSHIPS income £688k

Side by side with its peers

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