THE PANASONIC TRUST FOR THE FURTHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF ENGINEERS

Registered charity 290652 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE PANASONIC TRUST

The Trust is currently funding a regional programme in the Welsh Valleys that provides engineering-focused enhancement and enrichment opportunities for students and teachers in secondary schools and Post-16 as well as a bursary programme to support students progressing on to vocational education. It's aim is to create a local STEM-skilled workforce capable of meeting the region's future needs.

Objects

FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN ENGINEERING GENERALLY AND IN PARTICULAR TO FOSTER AND PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE FURTHER EDUCATION AND RETRAINING OF ENGINEERS IN NEW TECHOLOGY AND MATERIALS AND IN CHANGES IN DEVELOPMENT IN ENGINEERING AND THEIR SEVERAL APPLICATIONS.

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 expenditure of £70,964 for the year, largely driven by grant payments and service charges exceeding investment income. However, the trustees confirm the entity remains a going concern with adequate resources, holding unrestricted funds of £2,139,213 at the balance sheet date. The trustees consider the level of general unrestricted reserves to be satisfactory.

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

What the accounts disclose

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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.

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• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carl Pocknell MBA, MScchair
• Adrian Driscoll
• Ellena Williams
• Gareth Prideaux Jones
• Helen Walker
• Mark Graham Vasey
• Peter Guthrie · trustee of 1 other charity
• William Finbar Nolan

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

Operates in: 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 ENTHUSE CHARITABLE TRUST.

• ENTHUSE CHARITABLE TRUST income £3.4m
• THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF ENGINEERS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND income £219k
• ROYAL ENGINEERS VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING TRUST income £730k
• ENGINEERS AGAINST POVERTY income £2.0m
• SMALLPEICE TRUST LIMITED income £2.9m
• THE RECORD CHARITABLE TRUST income £208k

Side by side with its peers

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