FOUNDATION FOR CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION

Registered charity 295873 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION, NICE - Centre for Movement Disorders

The Foundation is the overarching charity. Within it, is NICE - Centre for Movement Disorders, which provides the practice and academic bases through which we can both demonstrate and develop Conductive Education. NICE offers three types of service: Children's, Rehabilitation, Training All services meet the full requirements of appropriate Government inspection criteria

Objects

FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE SCIENCE AND SKILL OF CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION AND ESPECIALLY THE TEACHING THEREOF.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £86,945 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income increasing to £1,201,428. Total reserves stood at £1,106,342, although the charity held net current liabilities of £224,553 due to deferred income and bank loans. The trustees confirmed the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis with ongoing bank support.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by J W Hinks LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (54% 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: 8.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Robert Holdenchair
• ANTHONY COOMBS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Brid Holden
• GRAHAM COOMBS
• Guv Samra
• JAYNE TITCHENER
• Judtih Ann Holden
• Lisa Bryan
• Peter Tierney
• Richard James Anthony Coombs
• Roger David Wood · trustee of 4 other charities
• Sara Collett

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DRIVE.

• DRIVE income £25.2m
• FOOTPRINTS CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION CENTRE LTD income £546k
• THE RAINBOW CENTRE FOR CONDUCTIVE EDUCATION LTD income £1.1m
• CEDE FOUNDATION income £149k
• THE MOVEMENT CENTRE FOR TARGETED TRAINING income £395k
• THE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT income £259k

Side by side with its peers

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