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Registered charity · Abingdon

The Unicorn Trust

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £4.6m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Oxfordshire
Website
www.unicornoxford.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Unicorn Trust
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.6m£4.4m
  • 2024£3.9m£3.5m
  • 2023£3.3m£3.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.0m£2.8m
  • 2021£2.5m£2.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 60% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY ESTABLISHING A SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS AND BY PROVIDING A FULL-TIME EDUCATION, IN LINE WITH THE NATIONAL CURRICULUM, FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIFIC LEARNING DIFFICULTIES WHO REQUIRE SPECIALIST TUITION, SMALL CLASSES AND INTENSIVE DAILY INDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE TO ENABLE THEM TO RETURN AS SOON AS APPROPRIATE TO MAINSTREAM EDUCATION

Grants received

2 grants · £150,660 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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Most recent

Board analysis for researchers

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

10 trustees on the board

5.5y median 4y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 10

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 14Tech and media 5Business services 3

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£4.6m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

5.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.4 in 2021

72 from 39 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
62%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1070807
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 25 JUNE 1998. as amended on 01 Apr 2022
Companies House
Company number 03588494 · Active
Contact on the register
01235530222 · office@unicornoxford.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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