THE CITY OF LONDON CORPORATION COMBINED EDUCATION CHARITY

Registered charity 312836 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HERSEF, HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH AND SPECIAL EXPENSES FUND

Financial assistance is available through the Higher Education Research and Special Expenses Fund to assist deserving young persons following special technical courses full-time at secondary schools or establishments of further education in the area formerly under the control of the London County Council (under Clause 1), and teachers and lecturers in the former LCC area (Clause 2).

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: 1)TO FURTHER THE EDUCATION OF PERSONS (INCLUDING PERSONS BORN OR RESIDENT IN THE CITY OF LONDON AND THOSE ATTENDING EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE CITY OF LONDON OR THE OTHER LONDON BOROUGHS) ATTENDING OR PROPOSING TO ATTEND SECONDARY, FURTHER OR HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS OR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND BY ARRANGING OR SUPPORTING EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO EXTEND OR COMPLEMENT COURSES PROVIDED BY SUCH INSTITUTIONS; 2)TO PROVIDE GRANTS FOR STAFF AT MAINTAINED SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES IN THE CITY OF LONDON AND THE OTHER BOROUGHS OF LONDON TO UNDERTAKE STUDIES EITHER AT EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OR AT OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS PROVIDED THAT SUCH STUDY FURTHERS THEIR DEVELOPMENT AS TEACHERS.

Area of benefit: ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY OF LONDON.

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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Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased by 10.2% to £1,041,193, driven by significant net investment gains. The charity holds £131,028 in unrestricted free reserves, which is above the stated minimum target of £20,701 needed for working capital. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's 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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/06/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/06/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• City of London Corporation · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS STUDIES.

• LONDON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS STUDIES income £1.9m
• THE CENTRAL FOUNDATION SCHOOLS OF LONDON income £1.7m
• A NEW DIRECTION LONDON LIMITED income £2.7m
• LONDON GRID FOR LEARNING TRUST income £26.5m
• LONDON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY COMMERCIAL EDUCATION TRUST income £246k
• COMMUNITY EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT AND ADVICE LTD income £86k

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