THE ASSOCIATION FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION

Registered charity 313123 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7714729 · Wikipedia · also known as ASE · also registered in Scotland as SC042473 (OSCR)

Improving science education for all young people, primarily but not exclusively across the UK. This is achieved by supporting science educators, including trainees, teachers, technicians, initial teacher educators and others in the sector through conferences, journals and resources, curriculum and professional development programmes and contributions to research and policy debates.

Objects

TO PROMOTE EDUCATION BY THE FOLLOWING MEANS:- (A) BY IMPROVING THE TEACHING OF SCIENCE; AND (B) BY PROVIDING AN AUTHORITATIVE MEDIUM THROUGH WHICH OPINIONS MAY BE EXPRESSED ON EDUCATIONAL MATTERS AND (C) BY AFFORDING MEANS OF COMMUNICATION AMONG ALL PERSONS AND BODIES OF PERSONS CONCERNED WITH THE TEACHING OF SCIENCE IN PARTICULAR AND WITH EDUCATION IN GENERAL.

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 charity ended the financial year with an unrestricted surplus of £68,160, bringing total unrestricted reserves to £228,034. While this figure is above the stated minimum policy target of three months' running costs, it remains below the interim target of four months (approximately £286,000). The trustees acknowledge that the financial outlook is challenging due to the end of key project funding and declining membership conversion, but maintain that adequate resources exist to continue operations for the foreseeable future.

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 4 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: ASE PUBLISHING AND TRADING LTD. Companies House 10875129
• Registered company of the charity Companies House RC000805

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (73% 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: 2.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brian Eapen
• Catherine Walker
• Claire Seeley
• Corinne Stevenson
• David Allen
• Dr Susan Burr
• Dylan Jones
• Manoj Chitnavis
• Naomi Hiscock
• Olivia Brenda Bussey
• Prof Emily Perry

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

Operates in: China · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Thailand · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN SCHOOLS.

• THE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN SCHOOLS income £1.4m
• THE ASSOCIATION OF ADVISERS FOR OUTDOOR LEARNING AND EDUCATIONAL VISITS income £213k
• SENSE ABOUT SCIENCE income £795k
• ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES income £589k
• THE ASSOCIATION FOR SCIENCE AND DISCOVERY CENTRES income £657k
• SCIENCE MEDIA CENTRE income £775k

Side by side with its peers

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