EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Registered charity 270901 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5065855 · Wikipedia · also known as CFBT, CFBT EDUCATION SERVICES, CFBT EDUCATION TRUST, THE CENTRE FOR BRITISH TEACHERS

The Charity seeks to advance education for the public benefit. To this end, we provide advice and consultancy services on education matters to governments and others, we teach, we provide counselling and guidance to young people and adults, we undertake or commission educational research and we provide training and support for educators.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFITTO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING ASSISTANCE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPE

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

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

Registered contact address: Reading, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net decrease in funds of £1.2m for the year, driven by a decline in income from charitable activities and the sale of subsidiaries. Despite this, free reserves increased to £23.2m for the Group, and the trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate headroom for cash and a strong balance sheet, with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £190,000 - £199,999 (FY2024) to £210,000 - £219,999 (FY2025).

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

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Investment
• 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

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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• CfBT Education Trust rebrands to the Education Development Trust thirdsector.co.uk · 11/12/2015
• CfBT Education Trust to change name and move office civilsociety.co.uk · 10/12/2015

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00867944

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sarah Farquhar — Interim Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Anne Tutt — Chair of Trustees (Interim) (source)
• Tony McAleavy — Chief Education & Skills Officer (source)
• Mick Dyson — Chief Finance Officer (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Mastercard Foundation — “RISE Rwanda is a Mastercard Foundation initiative, aligned with the Foundation's broader Young Africa Works Strategy” (source page)
• Gates Foundation — “Edt to manage technical assistance hub funded by the Gates Foundation” (source page)
• Roger Federer Foundation — “The Roger Federer Foundation partners with edt to scale up foundational learning initiative in Zimbabwe” (source page)
• FCDO — “Building Learning Foundations programme awarded A+ rating by FCDO” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• TUTT, Anne Catherine — director, appointed 16/05/2024on trustee list
• WAMBUGU, Edward Muchemi — director, appointed 26/01/2022on trustee list
• HEMELGE, Nimal Jude — director, appointed 24/01/2022on trustee list
• SIMONS, Jonathan — director, appointed 19/09/2019on trustee list
• HUTCHEON, Joy Louise — director, appointed 14/05/2019on trustee list
• BARRON, Tanya — director, appointed 14/05/2019on trustee list
• CLIFTON-MELHUISH, Steven John — secretary, appointed 29/08/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £2.0m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustpilot: EduDevelopmentTrust scores 2.9/5 from 2 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/06/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/04/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Catherine Tutt
• Edward Muchemi Wambugu
• JONATHAN SIMONS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joy Louise Hutcheon
• Nimal Jude Hemelge
• Tanya Barron · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Abu Dhabi · Algeria · Australia · Bangladesh · Brunei · Central African Republic · Dubai · Egypt · France · Ghana · Greenland · India

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• EDUCATION FOR LIFE income £256k
• TRAINING AND RESEARCH GLOBAL EDUCATION TRUST income £280k
• LONDON EDUCATION TRUST income £231k
• THE EDUCATION RENAISSANCE TRUST income £321k
• THE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT income £259k
• THE ROGER EDWARDS EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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