SMALLPEICE TRUST LIMITED
Registered charity 313719 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE SMALLPEICE TRUST
The Charity provides public benefit by promoting the advancement of education and in particular engineering and technological education. The Charity promotes engineering, design, manufacturing, enterprise and technology as a career to young people aged from 8 to 18 by providing a professionally executed subsidised programme of residential courses and associated educational activities.
Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that total reserves stood at £19,836,659, with free reserves (including expendable endowment) at £653,917. The trustees report that the budgeted income and expenditure is sufficient with the level of reserves for the charity to continue as a going concern, although they note that capital reserves have been expended to subsidize day-to-day operations due to economic disturbances.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Related-party transaction: The Trust received £NIL (2024: £5,980) from organisations the Trustees were connected with.
“During the year the Trust received £NIL (2024: £5,980) from organisations the Trustees were connected with.” — page 33
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Dains Audit Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Helen Cuthill — Chief Executive Officer (source)
- John Bleasdale — Director of Income Generation (source)
- Oliver Atkins-Wood — Director of Delivery (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 (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£711k
Reserves (reported)
£19.8m
Reported reserves equal ~61.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (75% 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: 24.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (06/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (17/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Fatemah Shirin Dehghanchair
- Andrew David Parker
- David Gavin Thompson
- Dr John Robert Waring
- Era Arvind Shah
- Jacqueline Marie Newsome
- Julie Louise Tomlinson
- Patrick Christopher James Dowling
- Professor Ian Keith Dunn
- Stephen Robins
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is SMALLPEICE TRUST LIMITED financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total reserves stood at £19,836,659, with free reserves (including expendable endowment) at £653,917. The trustees report that the budgeted income and expenditure is sufficient with the level of reserves for the charity to continue as a going concern, although they note that capital reserves have been expended to subsidize day-to-day operations due to economic disturbances. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Dains Audit Limited.
Who funds SMALLPEICE TRUST LIMITED?
Funders whose own accounts filings name SMALLPEICE TRUST LIMITED as a grant recipient include ED DE NUNZIO CHARITABLE TRUST.
Known funders
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