THE STOCKPORT ENGINEERING TRAINING ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 510493 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SETA

-Engineering Skills across a wide occupational range accessible to all learners-Provision of training facilities for Apprentice Training Engineering-Group Services for member companies to enable the development of the workforce through structured training programmes-Health and Safety and Adult Short courses as required by industry

Objects

TO ADVANCE AND PROMOTE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE PUBLIC IN THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUISITE FOR EMPLOYMENT IN INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE

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 accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £30,659 for the year ended 30 July 2025, driven by a drop in commercial health and safety income. While total consolidated funds remain positive at £1,005,476, the charity's free unrestricted reserves are negative £68,058, and the going concern basis is noted due to financial challenges faced by a key tenant.

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
• 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01512311

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MOSS, James Raymond — director, appointed 15/02/1995on trustee list
• HOWARTH, Robert Graham — directoron trustee list
• FIELD, Mark Christopher — secretary, appointed 05/05/1998

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~22.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (63% 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: 66.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT GRAHAM HOWARTHchair
• JAMES RAYMOND MOSS

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TYNE NORTH TRAINING LIMITED.

• TYNE NORTH TRAINING LIMITED income £1.5m
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• SOUTHAMPTON ENGINEERING TRAINING ASSOCIATION LTD income £3.1m
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Side by side with its peers

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