THE LEARNING SKILLS TRUST

Charity number: 1202498
Charity reporting is up to date (2 days late)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

The Learning Skills Trust is an educational charity which promotes the development of learning skills in young people.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 August 2024

Total income: £173,328
Total expenditure: £162,719

People

10 Trustee(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charity

Fundraising

No information available

Trading

This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.

Trustee payments

One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for providing services to the charity.

What, who, how, where

What the charity does:
  • Education/training
Who the charity helps:
  • Children/young People
How the charity helps:
  • Provides Services
  • Provides Advocacy/advice/information
  • Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
Where the charity operates:
  • Throughout England And Wales
  • Scotland

Governance

Registration history:
  • 27 March 2023: CIO registration
  • 21 November 2024: Funds received from 1179282 THE PRE-SENIOR BACCALAUREATE TRUST
Organisation type:
CIO
Other names:

No other names

Gift aid:
Not recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • Complaints handling
  • 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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • 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
  • Volunteer management
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property

Trustees

Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service

10 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
Paul Brewster Chair 01 April 2023
None on record
Robert Williams Trustee 01 April 2023
None on record
Victoria Bagnall Trustee 01 April 2023
None on record
Andrew Gist Trustee 01 April 2023
None on record
Eric Smart Trustee 01 April 2023
None on record
Peter Maltus Wells Trustee 01 April 2023
None on record
EMMA MCKENDRICK BA Trustee 01 April 2023
ROYAL MERCHANT NAVY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
Received: On time
THE ROYAL MERCHANT NAVY SCHOOL FOUNDATION
Received: On time
Julia Heather Ruth Harrington Trustee 01 April 2023
Neuroscience for Education
Received: On time
JOHN DAVIES Trustee 01 April 2023
None on record
Dr Christopher Stevens Trustee 01 April 2023
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/08/2024
Total gross income £173.33k
Total expenditure £162.72k
Income from government contracts N/A
Income from government grants N/A

Accounts and annual returns

This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
Title Reporting year Date received Received Download
Annual return 31 August 2024 02 July 2025 2 days late
Accounts and TAR 31 August 2024 02 July 2025 2 days late Download Open in new window
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Governing document

Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established.
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.

CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 27 Mar 2023

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF PUPILS AGED UP TO 18 YEARS OLD AT MEMBER SCHOOLS BY: I. ENABLING PROGRAMMES OF STUDY FOR PUPILS IN MEMBER SCHOOLS THAT AIM TO PREPARE PUPILS ACADEMICALLY, PERSONALLY, SOCIALLY, CULTURALLY AND SPIRITUALLY BY ACTIVELY DEVELOPING AND TRACKING KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ATTITUDES; II. HELPING SCHOOLS TO PROMOTE VITAL SKILLS IN INDEPENDENT LEARNING, IN THE APPROPRIATE USE OF TECHNOLOGY, IN CRITICAL THINKING; III. PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEADERSHIP AND TEAM-WORKING IN PUPILS; IV. OFFERING A FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSMENT THAT PROVIDES A COMPLETE RECORD OF A PUPIL'S ACHIEVEMENT; V. FOSTERING COLLABORATION AND TEAMWORK BETWEEN TEACHERS AND LEADERS OF MEMBER SCHOOLS.

Contact information

Address:
Long Meadow
Berwick St. James
SALISBURY
SP3 4TQ
Phone:
07725860129
Email:
generalsecretary@psbacc.org
Website:

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