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Registered charity · Cambridge

RED Balloon Learner Centre Cambridge

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £1.2m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Central Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and more
Website
www.redballoonlearner.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
RED Balloon Learner Centre Cambridge
Registered
2017

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.2m£1.1m
  • 2024£1.0m£1.1m
  • 2023£918k£923k
Earlier years
  • 2022£975k£849k
  • 2021£934k£755k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 89%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS AGED 7 TO 19, AT THE RED BALLOON LEARNER CENTRE, BEING STUDENTS WHO ARE THE VICTIMS OF BULLYING, OR BY REASON OF OTHER EMOTIONAL TRAUMA OR ILLNESS, ARE FOR THE TIME BEING UNABLE TO ATTEND MAINSTREAM SCHOOL, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROVIDING THEM WITH TUITION AND APPROPRIATE FACE-TO-FACE AND ON-LINE SUPPORT IN A SAFE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT UNTIL THEY ARE READY TO RETURN TO MAINSTREAM EDUCATION OR TAKE UP TRAINING OR EMPLOYMENT

Grants received

1 grant · £9,680 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.

Top funders

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £9,680

Most recent

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £9,6802020-09-26
Board analysis

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.

7 trustees on the board

1.4y median 1y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
6.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

6
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 7Amateur Sport 1General Charitable Purposes 1

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 6Professional services 1

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£1.2m latest income
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.

6.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 5.6 in 2021

36 from 31 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1175826
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 23 SEP 2017
Companies House
Company number 10978174 · Active
Contact on the register
01223 357714 · admin@cambridge.rblc.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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