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Vocational Training Charitable Trust

Registered charity 295192 Registered since 1986

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Australia, India, Italy, Malta, Mauritius, Netherlands, Ireland, South Africa, Spain, Isle Of Man, Botswana

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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

3.4y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (4)

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 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 2Disability 1General Charitable Purposes 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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 18Professional services 4Business services 3

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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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£13.4m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

12.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 23.1 in 2021

250 from 126 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.vtctskills.org.uk
Emailcustomersupport@vtctskills.org.uk
Phone02380684500
AddressV T C T, Aspire House, 10 Annealing Close, Eastleigh, SO50 9PX

Finances

£13,397,317 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£9,606,217£8,765,691
2022£11,143,898£10,638,954
2023£11,661,678£13,227,802
2024£12,863,495£14,134,446
2025£13,397,317£13,747,047

What it does

What

Education/training

Who

Children/young PeopleThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides ServicesSponsors Or Undertakes Research

Charitable objects

4.1 The charity’s objects (‘Objects’), being for public benefit, are the advancement of education by:a. assessment of training and skills for accreditation;b. setting standards of training and skills as an awarding and assessment organisation;c. engaging in the delivery of training and skills as an awarding and assessment organisation;d. the promotion of skills and knowledge for vocational and technical employment;e. advancing digital research and educational techniques;f. providing professional educational development opportunities, including the improvement of teaching skills for education providers;g. the promotion, awarding and assessment of the English Language, including English Speakers of Other Languages; andh. providing professional membership services for students and qualified individuals.4.2 Nothing in the articles shall authorise an application of the property of the charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and/or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26/08/1986AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/10/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/02/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 23/01/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/12/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 22/04/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 NOV 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13 JUL 2020 as amended on 15 Dec 2025

Trustees (10)

10trustees
57median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Vocational Training Charitable Trust · 02050044 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 26/08/1986

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (6)

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