WEST BERKSHIRE TRAINING CONSORTIUM

Registered charity 298851 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as W B T C

To advance the education of young persons through the provision of work experience and of such vocational training as would enable such persons to acquire vocational skills.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small operating surplus of £599 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £436,214. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, and the independent auditors identified 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 Alliotts LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Helen Lloyd-Hole — Interim Managing 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 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 ~6.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (89% 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: 43.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Oliver Clarke
• Isobel Lois Davies
• Lorraine Heath
• Nicola Louise Penfound
• Robert Duncan Hoblin
• Thomas Hamilton Wicksteed

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Reading · Slough · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED.

• HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £4.6m
• EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT income £1.1m
• WARRINGTON TRAINING TRUST LIMITED income £419k
• PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES AND SUPPORT income £1.2m
• THE DIFFERENCE EDUCATION LTD income £1.6m
• West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO income £478k

Side by side with its peers

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