WINE AND SPIRIT EDUCATION TRUST

Registered charity 313766 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as W S E T, WINE AND SPIRIT EDUCATION TRUST LTD, WSET

Promotion provision and development of high quality education and training in wines and spirits, in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, for those who are engaged in the wine and spirit trade or who intend to be so engaged or connected and members of the general public.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £1.3m, driven by property revaluations, while operational EBITDA fell to £3.0m against a target of £4.1m due to economic conditions. Unrestricted general reserves stand at £4.1m, which is below the stated long-term policy target of three months' costs (£5.4m), providing just over 2.5 months' cover. The charity continues as a going concern with adequate resources, despite having breached loan covenants during the year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rachel Webster — Global APP Development Director (source)
• Christine Kamine — Head of APP Development – Americas (source)
• Sarah Andrew — Head of APP Development – APAC (source)
• Willa Yang — Chief Representative Officer (source)
• Cara Powell — Head of APP Development – EMEA (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 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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: 4.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Francis de Camborne Paynter
• Georgie Bell
• Jolyon Thornton
• Lulie Halstead
• Miles Beale
• Regine Marisa Lee
• Sukhinder Singh
• Tamara Jane Larder

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

Operates in: Argentina · Australia · Austria · Belgium · Brazil · Bulgaria · Canada · Cayman Islands · Chile · China · Colombia · Croatia

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Academie du Vin Foundation.

• Academie du Vin Foundation income £612k
• THE FOOD AND DRINK TRAINING AND EDUCATION COUNCIL LIMITED income £1.5m
• NEW WINE INTERNATIONAL income £1.6m
• THE LICENSED TRADE CHARITY income £29.8m
• THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOUNDATION income £20.4m
• THE VINTNERS' FOUNDATION income £466k

Side by side with its peers

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