THE ENGLISH AND MEDIA CENTRE

Registered charity 803031 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ENGLISH CENTRE

Support teachers in promoting literacy in all forms. Develop & disseminate active approaches to learning. Initiate and resource innovative approaches both in the established English & Media curriculum and in the new literacy technologies. Relate English & Media teaching to the wider curriculum. Offer direct support to students. Carry out action research projects.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity returned a significant deficit for the third consecutive year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds of £321,710. Despite this, the trustees report that reserves remain healthy, although they have reduced by nearly half over the last three years, standing at £1,066,665. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Armstrong & Co. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram · linkedin

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

Reported reserves equal ~12.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Laura Worsleychair
• Anurag Jain
• Kabir Miah
• Martha Lord
• Myfanwy Marshall
• Richard Long
• Simon Arthur Johnson
• Vinay Gupta

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 THE CENTRE FOR LITERACY IN PRIMARY EDUCATION.

• THE CENTRE FOR LITERACY IN PRIMARY EDUCATION income £1.0m
• The English Language Centre income £6.8m
• SCHOOLREADERS income £940k
• ENGLISH PEN income £663k
• THE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION income £245k
• A S HORNBY EDUCATIONAL TRUST CIO income £326k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.