UNIVERSITIES COUNCIL FOR THE EDUCATION OF TEACHERS (UCET)

Registered charity 275082 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To promote high standards in the education and professional development of teachers and other professional edsucators and to encourage educational enquiry and research, with particular reference to topics which are the special concern of those engaged in higher education based teacher education, and to disseminate the results of such enquires and research.

Objects

TO PROMOTE HIGH STANDARDS IN THE EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHERS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS AND TO ENCOURAGE EDUCATIONAL ENQUIRY AND RESEARCH, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO TOPICS WHICH ARE THE SPECIAL CONCERN OF THOSE ENGAGED IN HIGHER EDUCATION BASED TEACHER EDUCATION, AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF SUCH ENQUIRIES AND RESEARCH.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 the charity reported a net surplus of £115,411 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total unrestricted funds of £1,177,380. The trustees consider the level of free reserves to be adequate and the state of the charity's affairs to be satisfactory, confirming adequate resources for going concern.

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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~32.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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

• Claire Woods
• Clare Ball-Smith
• Dr Andrew Clapham
• Dr Bryony Black
• Dr KEVIN MATTINSON
• Dr Kiether Parker
• Dr Lisa Murtagh
• Dr Lizana Oberholzer
• Helen Yorke
• Jo Elliott
• Megan Stephenson
• Sarah Stewart

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE COMMONWEALTH EDUCATION TRUST income £239k
• THE CHARTERED COLLEGE OF TEACHING income £2.5m
• COMMITTEE OF UNIVERSITY CHAIRS income £423k
• THE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT income £259k
• EXETER CONSORTIUM CIO income £390k
• THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL-BASED TEACHER TRAINERS income £719k

Side by side with its peers

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