ACUMEN ACADEMY UK

Charity number: 1185457
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

Acumen Academy UK develops and delivers leadership programmes, including a Fellows Programme and a range of online courses, to equip social leaders with the skills, character and community needed to accelerate and sustain their impact.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 December 2025

Total income: £419,391
Total expenditure: £307,979

People

5 Trustee(s)

30 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

Number of employees
£70k to £80k 1

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:
  • The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
  • Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Where the charity operates:
  • Throughout England And Wales
  • Northern Ireland
  • Scotland

Governance

Registration history:
  • 23 September 2019: CIO registration
Organisation type:
CIO
Other names:

No other names

Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • 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
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
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

5 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
Rebecca Ann Eastmond Chair 01 October 2019
THE PEEK VISION FOUNDATION
Received: On time
GLOBAL TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION
Received: On time
Leonie Jarrett Trustee 11 February 2026
None on record
Kathryn Jayne Osborn Trustee 01 June 2023
JUBILEE+
Received: On time
David Jeremy Gold Trustee 01 March 2023
None on record
Duro Oye Trustee 01 March 2023
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/12/2021 31/12/2022 31/12/2023 31/12/2024 31/12/2025
Total gross income £270.77k £328.02k £267.25k £160.23k £419.39k
Total expenditure £283.34k £294.55k £293.37k £270.12k £307.98k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants N/A 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
Annual return 31 December 2025 20 March 2026 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2025 20 March 2026 On time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 December 2024 20 October 2025 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2024 20 October 2025 On time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 December 2023 25 October 2024 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2023 25 October 2024 On time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 December 2022 31 October 2023 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2022 31 October 2023 On time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 December 2021 12 August 2022 On time
Accounts and TAR 31 December 2021 16 August 2022 On time 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 23 Sep 2019 as amended on 03 Mar 2025

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING OF INDIVIDUALS IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO WORK FOR THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY AND DELIVER PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL CHANGE IN COMMUNITIES AND ORGANISATIONS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE. To promote progressive social change in communities and organisations throughout the United Kingdom and elsewhere by providing financial support to organisations for charitable projects FOR THE PURPOSE OF THESE OBJECTS ‘PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL CHANGE’ MEANS CHANGES IN HUMAN INTERACTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS WHICH TRANSFORM CULTURAL AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN ORDER TO PROMOTE EQUALITY, JUSTICE AND A WORLD BASED ON DIGNITY, WHERE EVERY HUMAN BEING HAS THE SAME OPPORTUNITY. Nothing in this constitution shall authorise an application of the property of the CIO for the purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

Contact information

Address:
ACUMEN ACADEMY UK
Anderson Barrowcliff
3 Kingfisher Court, Bowesfield Park
Stockton on Tees, Co Durham
TS18 3EX
Phone:
07566792712
Email:
uk@acumenacademy.org
Website:

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