United Learning LTD

Registered charity 313999 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7888216 · Wikipedia · also known as THE CHURCH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION LIMITED, THE UNITED CHURCH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION LTD, UNITED CHURCH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION LTD

THE CHARITABLE GROUP PROVIDES EDUCATION THROUGH THE OPERATION OF INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS AND THROUGH THE OPERATION OF ACADEMIES ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION AND THE EDUCATION FUNDING AGENCY

Objects

THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF SCHOOLS, A LIBERAL, PRACTICAL AND GENERAL EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS OF ALL AGES AND BOTH SEXES, SUCH EDUCATION TO INCLUDE RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN THE DOCTRINE AND DUTIES OF CHRISTIANITY PRINCIPALLY AS THE SAME ARE TAUGHT BY THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND BUT ALSO SENSITIVE TO THE TEACHINGS, ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES OF OTHER CHRISTIAN COMMUNIONS AND DENOMINATIONS.

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.

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Peterborough, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charitable Group maintained a total surplus of £10m for the year ended 31 August 2025, supported by strong pupil numbers and overall group growth. Per the trustees' report, the group remains in a financially secure position with adequate liquid funds of £123.1m, which exceeds the stated reserves policy target of 3-7% of recurrent operating income for the academy trust.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Grant Thornton UK LLP. 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
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sir Jon Coles — Chief Executive (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 (3,222 likes) · linkedin (17,774 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 2.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/07/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW GORDON BALFOUR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christian Norman Brodie · trustee of 3 other charities
• Christie Darren Spurling MBE FRSA
• Dame Reena Keeble
• David Brown
• Dr Rosalind Margaret Given-Wilson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edward Francois Vainker OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Melissa Geiger · trustee of 1 other charity
• Neil Andrew MacDonald · trustee of 4 other charities
• Ourania Pauline Marandos · trustee of 2 other charities
• Paul Stuart Mustow · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter James Plumb · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rachel Elizabeth Macfarlane
• Sir JONATHAN ANDREW COLES · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with United Church Schools Trust.

• United Church Schools Trust income £185.2m
• SKILLS AND EDUCATION GROUP AWARDS LIMITED income £3.0m
• THE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT income £259k
• OPEN AWARDS income £2.7m
• THE HAMOND EDUCATIONAL CHARITY income £54k
• TUTORS UNITED income £754k

Side by side with its peers

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