MIDLAND GROUP TRAINING SERVICES LIMITED

Registered charity 528785 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MGTS

PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE THE THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF PERSONS ENGAGED OR INTENDING TO BE ENGAGED IN ENGINEERING, GENERAL INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES. (B) SUBJECT TO THE FOREGOING OBJECT, TO EXTEND SUCH PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE TO THE TRAINING OR EDUCATION OF MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY IN CONNECTION WITH ENGINEERING, GENERAL INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION)

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 generated an unrestricted surplus of £191,364 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted income of £4.7m and expenditure of £4.56m. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £1.29 million, which is below the stated policy target of six months of budgeted expenditure (£2.17 million), although the trustees note this is effectively addressed by a long-term investment portfolio valued at £0.9 million.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Luckmans Duckett Parker Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: 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
• 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
• 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles 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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% 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: 22.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• GILES FREDERICK LAWTONchair
• Carolyn Bell
• Daniel William Montgomery
• Ian James Yoxen
• JILL PETA MUSTARD
• KEVAN ROBERT KANE
• Neil Trevor Foster
• Tracy Reynolds

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MID AND NORTH WALES TRAINING GROUP LIMITED.

• MID AND NORTH WALES TRAINING GROUP LIMITED income £539k
• MIDLAND MENCAP income £10.8m
• HEREFORDSHIRE AND WORCESTERSHIRE GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £4.6m
• NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE ENGINEERING GROUP TRAINING ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £1.1m
• THE STOCKPORT ENGINEERING TRAINING ASSOCIATION income £512k
• MIDLANDS BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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