Your Ambition

Registered charity 290702 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOUTH EAST ESSEX TECHNOLOGY CENTRE

To promote and provide for the advancement, education and training of adults and young people in all aspects of technology and to rehabilitate and help them back to work directly or through third parties, including community participation in recreational sports that have a positive impact on their social integration, mobility, mental or physical wellbeing or the environment in which it operates.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds totalled £1,307,633 at the balance sheet date, with cash reserves of £585,999. The charity reported a net income of £48,515 for the year, derived primarily from a Ministry of Justice contract that ended in February 2025. The trustees consider the financial position to be satisfactory and have prepared the accounts on a going concern basis despite the loss of their main income source.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goldwyns Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01913019 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• John Baumback — Executive Chairman (source)
• Micaela Joannou — Employee Trustee Director (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.

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.

• STEPHENSON, Raymond — director, appointed 03/03/2020on trustee list
• COOPER, Peter Albert — director, appointed 19/12/2019on trustee list
• LEE, Edward David — directoron trustee list
• BIRKETTS SECRETARIES LIMITED — corporate secretary, appointed 04/11/2020

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• EDWARD LEE
• Peter Albert Cooper · trustee of 1 other charity
• Raymond Stephenson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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