SPEKE TRAINING AND EDUCATION CENTRE LIMITED

Registered charity 516400 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPEKE YOUTH WORKSHOPS LIMITED

STEC delivers Community Engagement, Adult and Community Learning, Community Support Projects, Managed Office Space and Business Support on a Social Enterprise basis, to promote inclusion, employability, lifelong learning and sustainability, with focus upon deprived communities in South Liverpool (eg Speke / Garston)

Objects

(I) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND RELIEVE NEED AMONG YOUNG AND OTHER UNEMPLOYED PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA DEFINED THROUGH THE PROVISIONS (SAVE IN EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES FOR A PERIOD NOT EXCEEDING 2 YEARS IN THE CASE OF ANY ONE INDIVIDUAL) OF GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT AND OF SUCH TRAINING FACILITIES AS WILL ENABLE SUCH PERSONS AS AFORESAID TO ACQUIRE AND DEVELOP VOCA-TIONAL SKILLS; (II) TO TRAIN AND EDUCATION YOUNG PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA THROUGH THEIR LEISURE-TIME ACTIVITIES AND THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EXPERIENCE OF REGULAR WORK FOR SUCH PERSONS WHO WOULD OTHERWISE BE UNEMPLOYED SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES THAT THE MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED, (III) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE IN THE AREA IN PARTICULAR CHARITABLE PURPOSES DIRECTED TO THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE SUFFERING THROUGH UNEMPLOYMENT THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCA-TION, THE PREVENTION OF ILL-HEALTH, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE AREA.

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF MERSEYSIDE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £284 on unrestricted funds and a net expenditure of £39,338 on restricted funds for the year ended 31 July 2025. Total incoming resources increased to £388,681 from £315,421 in the prior year, while total outgoing resources rose to £427,733 from £371,220. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £549,423 and restricted reserves of £796,123, providing a total fund balance of £1,345,546.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Liverpool Adult Learning Service — “These programmes are part funded by Liverpool Adult Learning Service, Workers Educational Association and Sefton CVS.” (source page)
• Workers Educational Association — “These programmes are part funded by Liverpool Adult Learning Service, Workers Educational Association and Sefton CVS.” (source page)
• Sefton CVS — “These programmes are part funded by Liverpool Adult Learning Service, Workers Educational Association and Sefton CVS.” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stuart St Vincent Fitzgeraldchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carie Lee
• DAVID HUNT
• Debbie Gayle · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Rima Mehho Zada
• Joseph William Cummings
• Lynn Lock
• Rev Edward Cain
• Rev Gareth Morgan · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Liverpool City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SPEKE CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE.

• SPEKE CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE income £277k
• SCEPTRE EDUCATION income £3.3m
• STEPNEY COMMUNITY TRUST income £116k
• SPEKE GARSTON MINIBUS AGENCY income £395k
• SQUARE PEG ACTIVITIES LIMITED income £175k
• STEP DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £741k

Side by side with its peers

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