THE LEARNING CURVE VOLUNTARY SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
Charity number: 1090735
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
The Learning Curve provides training, education and support to vulnerable and disadvantaged individuals to help them improve their lives. In addition, we support other third sector organisations who also contribute to these aims.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024
Total income: £235,663
Total expenditure: £157,465
Total income includes £72,243 from 1 government contract(s)
People
3 Trustee(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
What the charity does:
- Education/training
- Economic/community Development/employment
Who the charity helps:
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Other Defined Groups
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
Where the charity operates:
- Bristol City
- Cornwall
- Devon
- Hampshire
- Swindon
- Wiltshire
Governance
Registration history:
- 21 February 2002: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
- THE LEARNING CURVE (Working name)
Company number:
Gift aid:
Not recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
- Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies:
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Campaigns and political activity 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
- 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 owns and/or leases 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
3 Trustee(s)
| Name | Role | Date of appointment | Other trusteeships | Reporting status of other trusteeships | ||||
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| Ian Powell | Trustee | 23 April 2025 |
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| Hannah Rendle | Trustee | 20 July 2021 |
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| Sean Westlake | Trustee | 22 December 2017 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2020 | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £563.85k | £105.57k | £67.36k | £204.98k | £235.66k | |
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Total expenditure | £633.17k | £73.27k | £57.18k | £153.45k | £157.47k | |
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Income from government contracts | £412.24k | £45.57k | £67.36k | £43.25k | £72.24k | |
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Income from government grants | £119.26k | £43.89k | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £31.22k | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £532.56k | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Endowments | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Investment | £77 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Other | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Legacies | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £633.17k | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £12.07k | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Other | £0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 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 |
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| Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 16 December 2024 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 16 December 2024 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 31 January 2024 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 31 January 2024 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 31 January 2023 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 31 January 2023 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 01 November 2021 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 01 November 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2020 | 15 January 2021 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2020 | 15 January 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |