Iol Educational Trust

Analysis

Iol Educational Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Kent. It was registered in January 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04297497). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Iol Educational Trust reported income of £537k and spending of £538k, spending 100% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income fell from £1.1m to £537k (-53%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income dropped by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 110% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Iol Educational Trust sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Civitas Limited (£536k), The Gulf Research Centre Cambridge Limited (£537k) and Learning to Work (South East) Limited (£536k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 56% and donations and legacies 14%. Charitable activities took 100% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. It employed 5 people.